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I have a question: why is it so difficult to record piano?

Posted by Joel_Waterman (A) on March 10, 2007 at 16:06:34

The OP discussion and the Van Cliburn thread below made me wonder about this topic. There are many recordings where the other instruments in the band/orchestra sound perfectly ok, but the piano sounds like it's buried under blankets and put into a cardboard box. Or the piano sounds distorted on the overtones. Or there is no real depth and weight. I have many jazz recordings on CD in the RvG series and it seems the piano is always worse of than the rest. Many SA-CD's also display similar traits. Same on vinyl. The tsax sounds great, but the piano flat and unnatural. There are exceptions (Evans on APO, Lomheim on Artegra, Lazic on Channel Classics for example), so it can be done. I would be interested to know why this is? I can speculate but I am not a recording professional.

Jw

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