OnlyPure Recordings

[Michael Gamble]

Hello List and Bernhard
Recording pianos successfully is a very, very difficult thing to do. Did I 
hear a false bass string right at the end of Matthias' piece? Or was it my 
speakers - which are only computer speakers and not hi-fi. I must say I 
enjoyed Matthias "Fantasy" - it put me in mind of Liszt "Vanezia e Napoli". 
However, the main issue here is the tuning. I cannot say I found anything 
untoward on that score. I cannot say it was any better than my aural 
tunings. So what is the point here? Am I being told this tuning was done 
string-by-string and note-by-note with the only reference being to an ETD? 
For my part I would prefer to analyse this "pure" tuning against the known 
criteria present in a well tuned piano - not by being played as for a 
recital. I want to hear what your M10, M4, M5 and M15 intervals are like in 
chromatic progression. Then, and only then, would I, for one, be able to get 
a true judgement. Once that hurdle is passed you can play what you like on 
it - it doesn't have any bearing on the issue. But on computer speakers???
Regards from darkest Sussex-in-the-Downs
Michael G.(UK)
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Subject: OnlyPure Recordings


> List,
>
> Two links to recordings tuned by the OnlyPure tuning method.
> (Recordings are first shot without cuts)
>
> Pianist:
> Matthias Neumann
> Instrument: Steinway Model B
> Piano technician:
> Bernhard Stopper
>
> J.S. Bach Praeludium B minor, transcription by Alexander Siloti
> http://www.piano-stopper.de/dl/Bach.wma
>
> Fantasy in C Major by Matthias Neumann
> http://www.piano-stopper.de/dl/Neumann.wma
>
> best regards,
>
> Bernhard Stopper
> http://www.onlypure.info
>
>
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