---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment At 01:16 PM 2/5/2006, you wrote: >While I agree that there are examples of recordings where the result >clearly does not reflect the character of the piano, there are also >others where the recording sounds very much like the source instrument. Yes. >Often a recording team will saturate the tone beyond that coming >from the instrument, making it unrecognisable. An example of this is the recording of Jorge Bolet in Carnegie Hall. The last piece is the Lizst/Wagner Tannhauser transciprtion. You can hear the engineer gradually increase the recording level, eventually saturating the tape. > However, it is also possible to quite faithfully reproduce the > character of the instrument. Yes. Much of what Rubinstein recorded for RCA falls into this category. > Our recording objective was to reproduce the actual tonal > character of the instrument and we were quite pleased with the > match between the actual piano and the recording of Scott Davie's > Rachmaninoff Lilacs CD. Haven't heard this one. Best. Horace >Ron O. > >> Maybe so but I've heard recordings of my own pianos & they >> really sounded like my piano so what I am saying that it is >> possible to get a realistic flavor of a given piano and we tuners >> have a very sophisticated set of ears. A true picture is rarely >> possible on recordings but they've gotten better as some people >> who know piano tone also become recording engineers. Jeff >> Stradling & a Yamaha recording artist hinself recently recorde my >> Stwy D & his results were very life like & and as good as any I've >> heard. Mic placement has a huge amount to do with it of course. >> All that to say is that I will not discount what I heard. It >> was very pleasantly different & similar to some of the results >> that I've gotten in my own designs. A good recording CAN reflect >> the true nature of the sound. >> Dale Erwin >>Recordings can be deceiving and I don't like to rely on them for a >>true picture of a piano's tone. I've heard some beautiful >>recordings on Yamahas that were very un Yamaha like in their >>overall impression. Recording has gotten so sophisticated lately >>in terms of the ability to manipulate tone so I'm generally >>reluctant to draw any conclusions that way. >> >> >> >>David Love >>davidlovepianos@comcast.net >> >> > > > >-- >OVERS PIANOS - SYDNEY > Grand Piano Manufacturers >_______________________ > >Web http://overspianos.com.au >mailto:ron@overspianos.com.au >_______________________ ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/56/a3/68/84/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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