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In Reply to: RE: Thanks to Charlie F posted by ahendler on June 27, 2015 at 15:56:04
who recently passed away. Yoshi Nishimura was supposed to be able to perform miracles and was in high demand, although I never met the man. Vladimir Askenazy has a summer home here and after he tuned the piano here, Askenazy flew him to Iceland to tune his piano there and offered him the job of going on tour with him.High praise for a local boy.
Wish I knew what I know now and had a chance to talk to him.
A customer of mine had a Bechstein bought from the Dutch German Embassy just before the war when they were evacuating. Tuned to A=445 they could never play it for accompaniment, because no other tuner wanted the job, claiming that it could damage the harp. Yoshi did it in a couple of hours.
Another friend who teaches music in High school got approached by a local bank which had foreclosed on a home and whose owners had left a Baldwin grand piano. they offered it to him for free, just take it away. Badly out of tune, he called Yoshi and his son came over, took note of the serial numbers and left. Yoshi came over a hour later to examine the instrument himself.
Apparently he had written those numbers because he had installed a Steinway action into the Baldwin. He came the next day, tuned and cleaned up the instrument spending nearly all day in the process and charged only his normal fee !!!
Some interesting personalities abound in the field ( or any field, for that matter). Sometimes all you have to do is to look....
Edits: 06/28/15Follow Ups:
An aquaintance has a sister who play piano and is respected teacher. Worked for the local Baldwin shop. She waiteadecade to ge a Baldwin that she foun acceptable.
Musicians are just as OCD as some audiphiles, apparently ( and from reading Grand Obsession....)
BTW, and I can not find Information to verify this tidbit: Our local Art academy which has a small auditorium attached has a Steinway concert grand ( no I don't know the exact model as I was never really into pianos). I heard several recitals there, and it had a very rich warm tone, unlike the typical Steinways, which to me have a certain brilliance to their sound. I just assumed it was just another brand.
One of my friends was intrigued ( he and his wife play piano) so he went up and checked out the instrument. It was a Steinway, but as he also admitted sounded like no other Steinway he had heard. He did some research and found it belonged to a Chinese Concert Pianist ( Fou Ts'ong?) who brought it over after the communist's takeover. Supposeedly it it is on the list of 100 great Steinways.
I know thw curator of the academy and when told this, he was surprised. His only comment was "we'd better take better care of that instrument !
FWIW
On the fallboard, it spelled out in gold leaf letters:
P I A N O
ATB,
JM
I truly love the richness that swirls behind the curtain of everyday life. Ms. Knize's explorations thrilled me -- and I am not particularly a piano afficianado -- because I do think that the mystic is very much a part of our mundane world. The tuning, the voicing, the trees ..., all of it contributes to the sound of each note played.
And your townsman Yochi was able to dig into all that and bring magic into the music people heard from his instruments. Marvelous.
It makes me smile, unclestu, and it helps me feel better about our world.
I think I will spin some Moravec tomorrow.
Thank you again.
Yours,
-=- Charlie F.
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