Best piano in your world.

[Stéphane Collin]

Nice story, Phillip.

I do remember an older concert Bechstein 1873 that I liked very much, 
apart from a few notes (not responsive to my voicing techniques) at both 
sides of the tenor/trebble strut regio (this seems to happen often).  
Those four notes spoiled my pleasure to play the piano.  Many pianists 
played it with very good comments (not hearing any problem), and while I 
heard them play, also I couldn't hear the problem anymore, probably 
because I sat at another place than when I play the instrument, and also 
because my attention was lead to the music, not to the sound.
While I was extra critical about this later, for a long time I couldn't 
hear the problem anymore when playing again the instrument.  It then 
became my N°1 for a good time.
Together with the fact that the sound of the piano seems to change with 
temperature and moisture changes, this made me believe that the 
percieved sound changes also with the temperature (and moisture ?) of 
the ears, maybe influenced by blood circulation.  Obviously, I can't 
hear subtle voicing problems so well in the morning, or when I am 
emotionned.  Interesting to observe this.  I could be searching soon for 
ear voicing techniques (some dedicated sounds on CD, and some ear 
massage or so) ;-)

Stéphane Collin.

Phillip Ford a écrit :

>
> I remember many years ago ...  After I did the tuning I sat for a 
> while undisturbed, playing on this elegant and beautiful instrument in 
> the middle of an enchanted forest.  ...  I wonder if I saw it now, on 
> a sunny day, ...if I would be as enchanted by that piano as I was then.
>
> Phil Ford
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