Piano out of tune on recording

Mark Dierauf mark@nhpianos.com
Wed, 23 Feb 2000 20:45:46 -0500


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Bill Bremmer wrote:

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>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
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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

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