great stride piano playing that most people have no trouble ignoring.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXf4DpPaphw
Wonderful, but who ever put it up could have tuned it before!
Quote from: uwe on September 04, 2015, 10:49:14 AM
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.
Is this the time for the tuna piano joke again...? :mrgreen:
Henry missed his market.
Quote from: Psycho Bass Guy on September 05, 2015, 05:06:56 AM
Henry missed his market.
:mrgreen:
Gibson does own Baldwin Piano. How about Gforce tuning on a $100K concert grand (http://www.baldwinpiano.com/Products/Pianos/Grand/Baldwin/SD10.aspx)?
Quote from: Dave W on September 05, 2015, 07:59:27 AM
:mrgreen:
Gibson does own Baldwin Piano. How about Gforce tuning on a $100K concert grand (http://www.baldwinpiano.com/Products/Pianos/Grand/Baldwin/SD10.aspx)?
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 ?
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.
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.
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.
Quote from: wellREDman on September 05, 2015, 10:18:06 AM
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.
maybe the piano can be taken somewhere new if alternate tunings become available?
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.