>>> It's not the recording -- the pianos sound out of tune because they >>> >>> >ARE out of tune. >> > > It may be strange to hear a tuner say that there is no such thing as >out of tune, just the wrong venue for the sound, but . . . . . > >Ed Foote RPT >http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html >www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html > >_______________________________________________ > > Yes, I know, and that was a great post, but the isolated instances where The Doors, Dr. John, or whoever, wanted a certain type of out-of-tuneness for a certain effect was not what I was talking about. I was talking about plain-ol' neglect and tightwaddedness on the part of studios and bar owners. The out of tune piano on the one particular Art Tatum record I referred to was painfully, not purposely, out of tune. It did not help the recording; being in tune would have. And there are many others, but I'd have to pore through my two thousand-odd jazz records to find them. --Dave Nereson, RPT
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