you can tune a piano
In Russia piano tunes you.
OH more seriously I’ve been listening to Andras Schiff on the French Suites for a couple hours – whoever teched his piano really knew what he or she was doing. The unisons are off but I’m assuming that’s after one suite and got bent out. The action he favors (again, I’m assuming he has the piano set up the way he likes it) is interesting. - YouTube
That’s a sine wave, not a sign wave. A sign wave would be like, “Hey, look over there – a big-ass billboard!”
One of these two statements must be false.
No, I’m thinking that’s what happened – are you serious that a good talented tech can prevent some flexion of the pins/tuning over the course of a few hours of marathon Bach playing?
Willing to admit you might be right – just never heard that techs could compensate in advance for that kind of thing. But I’m not a piano tuner, and not a technician – in fact all I know about piano is you hit the keys hard wearing a helmet! Shed some light, man!
Oh, that is a good run Schiff did on the French suites. I forgot about him for twenty years – good stuff. His corrante on that one is not too brilliant the way I think about a corrante but he makes up for it in spades with the voice leading and some intelligent phrasing and probably some historical work on the ornamentation.
but you can’t tuna fish
nobody took the bait.
i recalled that catchy title, though not who or what. looked it up. REO Speedwagon album. cover art has a tuning fork in the mouth of a fish.
I’ll take this off-thread, if you like.
If whistling does indeed produce such a pure tone, is that why whistling a tune in unison with another person is so difficult, whereas singing a tune in unison with another person is comparitively easy? Do the overtones of the singing voice mask imperfections in the exact pitch being produced, such overtones not being present in whistling?
We’re better at larynx control than lip control.
I wonder if French people whistle better than Americans do. I remember after good French vowel classes my lips feeling quite sensitive, almost tired in a way.