This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Bill Bremmer wrote: snip... >I think the standards for classical music may have been better back = then than=20 >they were for Jazz and Pop but as someone recently pointed out, it = probably=20 >happened occasionally with those kinds of recordings too. =20 ...snip 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! - Mark ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/55/df/60/74/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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