<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Re: Mowtown</TITLE> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <STYLE> </STYLE> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16587" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><SPAN class=515064620-09022008><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff>Forty years married to your girlfriend?  Congrats!</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=515064620-09022008><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=515064620-09022008><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff>In the late-'60s, I was at a boarding school near Cincinnati, and one of the girls had a transistor radio that she listened to late at night, very softly, in our big open dormitory room.  It was always playing Motown, and the sound of that wonderful music, just barely audible and utterly entrancing is still one of my favorite memories.  Oh, man, that was great stuff!  </FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=515064620-09022008><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=515064620-09022008><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff>Check out "Standing in the Shadows of Motown", if you haven't seen it.  Dear darling daughter bought it for me for Christmas.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=515064620-09022008><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=515064620-09022008><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff>Mowtown is not nearly as much fun.  <g>  Yeah, been there done that, trying to time the tuning to dis-coincide with the mower noise.  </FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=515064620-09022008><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=515064620-09022008><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff>Annie G.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Alan Barnard [mailto:pianotuner@embarqmail.com]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, February 09, 2008 12:33 PM<BR><B>To:</B> pianotech@ptg.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: Mowtown <BR><BR></FONT></DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT style="FONT: 10pt ARIAL, SAN-SERIF; COLOR: black">Yeah, yeah .... Ramsey Lewis!  "Wade In The Water" ... fabulous stuff, 1965, I believe. I can remember sitting with my girlfriend (now married 40 years) at the Dog n' Suds restaurant in Urbana, Illinois (University of) listening to that with root beer and chili dogs. Wow. Thanks for stirring a great memory! And this is one crazy white guy who loved the Motown Sound from Diana Ross, Marvin Gaye, all of it.<BR><BR>Alan Barnard<BR>Salem, MO<BR><BR> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 3px solid; PADDING-TOP: 5px"> <HR> Original message<BR>From: "Fenton Murray" <FMURRAY@CRUZIO.COM> </FMURRAY@CRUZIO.COM><BR>To: annie@allthingspiano.com, "Pianotech List" <PIANOTECH@PTG.ORG> </PIANOTECH@PTG.ORG><BR>Received: 2/9/2008 12:13:25 PM<BR>Subject: Re: Mowtown <BR><BR> <DIV align=left>How about. "The In Crowd" by Ramsey Lewis. Or any of the James Booker stuff. Incredible cuts on night club pianos that you can literally hear falling apart as they are being played. 'The In Crowd' was a best selling instrumental and maybe Ramsey's biggest hit. If you could would you go back and prep those pianos for the recording? Please don't, might ruin everything.</DIV> <DIV>Fenton</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=annie@allthingspiano.com href="mailto:annie@allthingspiano.com">Annie Grieshop</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech List</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, February 09, 2008 5:52 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> RE: Mowtown </DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=390384713-09022008><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff>Julia,</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=390384713-09022008><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=390384713-09022008><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff>Assuming you meant "Motown", I'd suggest you watch "Standing in the Shadows of Motown", a documentary about the backup musicians who created that wonderful sound.  From their descriptions of the early days, I wonder whether the pianos were even tuned for sessions....  It might also give you some leads to who might have the answers to your questions.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=390384713-09022008><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=390384713-09022008><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff>And if you haven't seen it, check out "Buena Vista Social Club" for more marvelous music on poorly maintained pianos,  particularly the playing of Rubén González.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=390384713-09022008><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=390384713-09022008><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000ff>Annie Grieshop</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> KeyKat88@aol.com [mailto:KeyKat88@aol.com]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Friday, February 08, 2008 11:03 PM<BR><B>To:</B> pianotech@ptg.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> Mowtown <BR><BR></FONT></DIV> <DIV>Greetrings,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>                 Does anyone know of any tuners that tuned for Mowtown? How can I find out what tuners were working on that area in that time? I wanna know if they tuned in ET, because things sound as if its NOT ET on ALOT of the recordings.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Julia Gottshall, </DIV> <DIV>REading PA</DIV> <DIV> </DIV><BR><BR><BR> <DIV><FONT style="FONT: 10pt ARIAL, SAN-SERIF; COLOR: black"> <HR style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px"> Who's never won? <A title=http://music.aol.com/grammys/pictures/never-won-a-grammy?NCID=aolcmp00300000002548 href="http://music.aol.com/grammys/pictures/never-won-a-grammy?NCID=aolcmp00300000002548" target=_blank>Biggest Grammy Award surprises of all time on AOL Music.</A></FONT> </DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><A title=http://music.aol.com/grammys/pictures/never-won-a-grammy?NCID=aolcmp00300000002548 href="http://music.aol.com/grammys/pictures/never-won-a-grammy?NCID=aolcmp00300000002548" target=_blank> </A></FONT> </DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>