Bruce: Just listen as you do it. I'd guess that in the treble particularly the two cent span you mention might not be enough. Just knock them out until it sounds authentic. I've had to do that a couple of times here when the Wind Ensemble was doing music from the Three Penny Opera. The piano for Mack the Knife needs to be pretty ripe according to the conductor. dp David M. Porritt, RPT dporritt at smu.edu From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Bruce Dornfeld Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 9:08 PM To: pianotech Subject: [pianotech] Crazy Otto tuning One of the things I love about this work: after thirty years, there's always something new. Next week I will tune a couple of pianos to imitate the Crazy Otto sound from his Decca recordings from the 1940's and 1950's. I just listened to a tape of a few pieces for the first time, pretty wild ragtimey jazz! I have heard of the honky tonk tunings some Nashville studios use. I guess it's pretty much the same: tuning the three string "unisons" with the center string tuned normally, the left string one cent flat and the right string, one cent sharp. Listening to Crazy Otto, I wonder if I should go even farther. Even the bichords in the upper bass are tuned a bit out. How far do you go for a big fat honky tonk sound? Bruce Dornfeld, RPT bdornfeld at earthlink.net<mailto:bdornfeld at earthlink.net> North Shore Chapter -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090911/20a02a4b/attachment.htm>
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