Bill Bremmer wrote: >I had the distinct pleasure of tuning for the very fine Dutch pianist, >Sebastian Huydts who now lives in Chicago at the Frank Lloyd Wright estate >Hillside Theater today. Also in attendance at the both the concert and to >observe my tuning techniques was PTG Associate Member, Rozan Brown, who is a >reader and recent contributor to this List and who works as a piano >technician at the University of Wisconsin Madison. > >I hope Rozan will write her impressions of what she observed both in the >tuning and performance. It is absolutely true that teachers learn from their >students and although Rozan was only there to observe a single tuning, done >in a limited time, I was able to learn some very valuable and practical >things from her as well. > Hi list, I really enjoyed my day out at Taliesen yesterday with Bill! I certainly did learn a lot from watching him tune the piano. Believe it or not, this may have been the first time I've ever watched someone else tune completely from beginning to end. I still have some questions for him that I haven't had a chance to ask yet! So many different ways to do things in this profession... My comments about the performance: Not having been exposed to much besides ET (just Owen Jorgenson's and Ed Foote's classes), I don't really have a skilled enough ear to discern the defferences between Bill's EBVT and ET in a performance. I certainly could hear some differences in the few minutes I had to sit at the piano myself and when Bill demonstrated some intervals and chords for me. Perhaps if I heard the same music on two instruments side-by-side. Yes, I'll try to get to Chicago! What I do know is that I enjoyed Mr. Huydts' performance tremendously and thought that the piano sounded great. I enjoyed not only the Bach and Beethoven, but also his own pieces more than I thought I might. A very nice day - and we even got a tour of the main house and grounds at Taliesen! Thanks again, Bill! Rozan Brown Associate Member, PTG University of Wisconsin-Madison
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