Feldman's piano

[Avery]

You mean Bill Bremmer had nothing to do with this? :-D\\

Avery

At 06:49 AM 3/25/2007, you wrote:


>If you know Madison, Wisconsin, you would understand.   There it is 
>not an imposition, it is a request.  The pianists love it.   This 
>used to be my scene years ago, and I remember how much they loved it 
>when they first heard and had the tuning done for them.
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>I would also blame the sound quality partly on the room miking and 
>overall acoustic, since Feldman's voice isn't too well covered 
>either.  I suspect they like the feel of it.  One of my old friends 
>is one of his facts researchers, and the aesthetic all around is 
>quirky by design.
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>Besides,  I hate the way that pianist plays, and come to think of it 
>THAT is why the piano is out of tune all the time.  He has a 
>particularly "spikey finger" style of playing.  .  I always have to 
>turn the show off during the music sections, home town or no.
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>Wow, the mind boggles. That's so interesting; the dealer imposes
>meantone temperament (on a jazz trio, no less - with all the
>chromatic haarmonic stuff going on) and nobody thinks that's odd, or
>questions it?! I wonder how the pianist feels? (Who knows, maybe he's
>an adventurous sort of jazzer, and thinks it's bizarre and
>interesting - he does sound like an easygoing sort, when Feldman
>engages him in conversation). I'll definitely have to listen to that
>show again   : )
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>Now I'm really wondering whether it was the tuning or the temperament
>that I heard as being "off" somehow.
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>Cheers,
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>Allen
>On 25 Mar 2007, at 02:44, William R. Monroe wrote:
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> > The dealer likes it.  No other reason I know of.
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> > William R. Monroe
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