<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" = http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2314.1000" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Bill Bremmer wrote:</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>snip...</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>>I think the standards for classical = music may have been better back then than <BR>>they were for Jazz and Pop but = as someone recently pointed out, it probably <BR>>happened occasionally = with those kinds of recordings too.  </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>...snip</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I was surprised to hear a completely = outrageous Ab-5/Ab-6 octave in the Rubenstein recording of one of the Chopin = waltzes (Op. 42 in Ab Maj, if I remember correctly). The octave in question was so = bad that at first I thought that either Rubenstein was playing the wrong note. It = was nearly a semitone off, but the rest of the tuning sounded fine. I = wondered how the tuner, studio technicians AND the maestro could have missed it, but = came to the conclusion that they just let it slide thinking that listeners = wouldn't pick up on it. Indeed, I owned this recording for many years before I = started tuning pianos and never heard it!</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>- Mark</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>