Dear David, I´m listening to this as I write. It´s the B-flat Minor Sonata No. 2, Op. 35 by Chopin. He´s currently in the latter part of the third movement (La marche funébre). In the first two movements one can hear distinct out of tuneness in unisons of the mid-treble and a general tendency towards flatness in that area. It kind of feels that someone came and fixed a little bit before the Funeral March. The fourth movement, sounding now, is of course too fast to hearing any problems. The rest of the tuning is fine and it sounds like a very high quality grand. Of course one wouldn´t expect anything less for a performer of that high a caliber. It almost sounds like someone forgot to make an appointment with the tuner. This is a recording from about 1954-56. Definitely not much earlier. I have two numbers on the CD, published by RCA/Victor (it has the golden seal) It also say´s BMG Classics on it though. I guess that RCA is owned by BMG and BMG in turn owned by the General Electric Company (not that it makes any difference) GD 60822 LC 0316 It doesn´t bother me too much now even though I can hear it of course, but it was still quite a shock when I came back fresh from my studies. Hope that helps, Kristinn Leifsson Reykjavík, Iceland At 18:27 8.2.2000 -0800, you wrote: >I would be interested in which tape/CD you found the out of >tuneness? Was it unisons? > >David I. > > >Date sent: Tue, 08 Feb 2000 18:07:41 +0000 >To: pianotech@ptg.org >From: Kristinn Leifsson <istuner@islandia.is> >Subject: Re: Making the Transition >Send reply to: pianotech@ptg.org > >> >I still play chamber music for fun, but I now listen to the piano in a whole >> >different way. Which is another question. Do you guys notice how much >> >differently you listen to a piano now than you did before becoming a >> >tuner? I sure do. >> > >> >Martin >> > >> >> >> Dear Martin, >> >> you bet. After studying piano tuning it´s different to listen to piano >> music. Being an avid collector of any music recorded by Arthur Rubinstein, >> I was disappointed to find out the the grand in one recording was in fact >> out of tune. >> >> This I only found out after studying. In addition to that I have a better >> sense of all music e.g. stringed instruments etc. than before. >> >> It´s kind of a double-edged sword; music played on a well (adjective) tuned >> instrument is twice as enjoyable than before. >> However, a poorly tuned instrument degrades the experience by a factor of ten. >> >> >> Kristinn Leifsson >> Reykjavík, Iceland >> >> >> > > >David Ilvedson, RPT >Pacifica, CA >ilvey@jps.net > >
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