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In Reply to: Thanks for all that! posted by rbolaw on July 12, 2016 at 17:07:04:
First of all, thanks, Chris. Yes, I was asleep there, my memory misled by Tatum and Rachmaninoff. When years ago I asked the question and later discussed the response I received with JA, I knew that it was based on processing an audio recording, but, the question is the same:
Does the algorithm call all the shots, or, is there human intervention?
I am not at all an expert on piano technique, but, I do know that there are many subtle things a pianist can do in live performance (such as silently pressing a key down so that those strings can ring harmonically) that pre-hi-fi recordings might not catch. Just an example off the top of my head, and it might be faulty or false.
rbolaw, my understanding was that late in his career, Gould snitted at Steinway because he reportedly thought that his wishes were not being acted upon promptly. I do know that the 1982 Goldbergs "reconsideration" (not so if you know the 1954 CBC acetates) was recorded on a Yamaha.
BTW, I have never received a satisfactory answer to the presence of the "mouse orchestra" buried in one variation of the 1982 recording, but, one hypothesis is that it is leakage from the machine room where someone was rewinding or fast-forwarding a tape.
ATB,
John
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Follow Ups
- I think Gould's switch to Yamaha was rather toward the end. - John Marks 17:02:28 07/13/16 (1)
- Yup - I think that late set of Haydn Sonatas was also recorded on a Yamaha - Chris from Lafayette 21:09:42 07/13/16 (0)
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