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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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In Reply to: And doubly insulting to jazz! nt posted by Travis on November 11, 2011 at 17:27:44:
My sister's ex husband was a pretty talented professional piano technician. I spent a lot of time at the shop where he rebuilt grand pianos. On more than one occasion when another person of his trade would visit the shop the term "good enough for Jazz" was thrown around as a description of the condition of some of the instruments they were called in to service(which in many cases was the reason they paid a visit to his shop). Due to the fact you can't throw your piano in it's case & easily drop it off for maintenance or repairs a lot of people put off having work done to their pianos until they can't ignore the problems anymore(hey,there are lots of other keys on this thing,I can live with a few that are'nt right)& in many cases the overall condition of the piano deteriorates to the point were using it for a "honky tonk" piano is even a stretch. Be honest for a second & think about the sound of the piano on many recordings by great jazz pianists. In many cases their musicality is so overwhelming we don't hear(or ignore) how absolutely horrid sounding the instrument they were playing was. If you hear enough recordings of great jazz pianists you don't hear the piano anymore(unless you've spent time around a piano shop where prep work for classical piano concerts has been done, then you're "ruined" for listening to piano recordings). My comments were not meant as a statement criticism of Jazz, just the fact that the acceptance of using "bad" instruments was'nt the exception,but the norm.
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Follow Ups
- Like I said it was one of those "bad" jokes/phrases I heard occassionally from some "piano professsionals" - steveassante@comcast.net 06:22:46 11/12/11 (1)
- RE: Like I said it was one of those "bad" jokes/phrases I heard occassionally from some "piano professsionals" - Travis 06:48:39 11/12/11 (0)
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