[CAUT] Early 19th c. instrument mp3

[Ed Sutton]

Greg-

Your comments are very good.
Recordings by people like Malcolm Bilson provide a much more valuable 
insight.
Listen to this!! Don't miss the octave glissandi at the end!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvbWnR5QKFE

Ed Sutton


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Greg Graham" <grahampianos at yahoo.com>
To: <caut at ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010 11:58 PM
Subject: [CAUT] Early 19th c. instrument mp3


> The Slate article is interesting, but the recordings are not really a fair 
> comparison.  The Steinway recordings are pure and professional, while the 
> historic instruments seem to have been recorded "live in concert" with 
> much less professional equipment.  And... they don't sound in tune to me.
>
> We do need exactly this type of new/old comparison recording, but it needs 
> to be a better match of recording quality.  And it probably should be done 
> with newly built reproductions, rather than the antiques themselves.
>
> My ignorance of antique instruments will be showing here, but is there 
> something in the design of the old scales so primitive that they can't be 
> tuned?  Or is it just the frailty of the old instrument?
>
> Seems like every "historic" instrument I've ever heard needs a good 
> tuning, even after it has had one.
>
> Greg Graham, RPT
> Brodheadsville, PA