Les, Just a thought - I've always felt that Debussy was the first "jazz cat". I guess I'll have to listen to more Chopin. Bob Sadowski Erie, PA. -----Original Message----- From: Les Smith <lessmith@buffnet.net> To: pianotech@ptg.org <pianotech@ptg.org> Date: Friday, January 30, 1998 5:52 PM Subject: Re: Temperaments > > >On Fri, 30 Jan 1998, Delwin D Fandrich wrote: >> >> Les, >> >> Both Chopin and a really good modern jazz pianist would have understood. > >Absolutely! As I wrote that post, I was thinking of modern jazz and won- >dering how many performers realize that many of the harmonic devices >they use today go back to a dude named Fred who died a century and a >half ago! Kinda makes one wonder if Chopin were alive today, whether he >might not be in a smoke-filled club somewhere, playing a computer-inter- >faced, high-end, state-of-the-art, digital piano, with its sound-sampling >taken from a Steinway D, and which would give him the ability to alter >pitch, key AND temperament, with merely the flip if a switch, huh? It >could even do his orchestration for him when he wrote his next piano >concerto and then play back the whole thing from memory as he sat on >the sidelines, listening himself playing, while drinking an Old Mil- >waukee beer and contemplating its slogan: It doesn't get any better >than this! :) > >Les Smith > > >
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