Piano at the airport

[nofi]

great stride piano playing that most people have no trouble ignoring.

[uwe]

Wonderful, but who ever put it up could have tuned it before!

[wellREDman]

Wonderful, but who ever put it up could have tuned it before!

I think theres a by-law that all public pianos have to be slightly out of tune.

[Highlander]

Is this the time for the tuna piano joke again...?

[Psycho Bass Guy]

Henry missed his market.

[Dave W]

Henry missed his market.

 

Gibson does own Baldwin Piano. How about Gforce tuning on a $100K concert grand?

[wellREDman]

Gibson does own Baldwin Piano. How about Gforce tuning on a $100K concert grand?

no reason that the technology couldnt be adapted,
 hmmm wonder if it could be produced cheap enough to be viable as a touring alternative to hiring a piano tuner in each city ?

[slinkp]

It might be better than a disastrously out of tune piano, but piano tuning is still a weird art. It might be possible to automate, but it's apparently not as simple as it seems.

[Pilgrim]

I believe that's the gent who is working his way around the world playing piano in unexpected places.  Saw a news story about it - very cool notion for him to pursue.

[nofi]

it sounds like a cliche' but we had a blind piano tuner. the guy was fabulous. i wish you could have seen the concentration on his face.

[Dave W]

no reason that the technology couldnt be adapted,
 hmmm wonder if it could be produced cheap enough to be viable as a touring alternative to hiring a piano tuner in each city ?

No reason why not. If it works as well as the GForce has been reported to, the audience will be treated to unintentional retuning in the middle of songs.

[wellREDman]

maybe the piano can be taken somewhere new if alternate tunings become available?

[slinkp]

There is a whole chapter on piano tuning for concert halls in this book. http://amzn.to/1JNPxhQ
It was pretty interesting, they alter things slightly depending on the performer and the piece.