Originally posted by Caliban
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Handmade by Royal Appointment - Steinway & Sons BBC 4
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I think so. My piano was tuned for some time in his earlier years by this wonderful guy Uli (he was a friend of a friend) and I learned the word 'toning' from him - perhaps it's a Germanic form, and 'voicing' is the more traditional English word for it..."...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Richard Tarleton
An amusing story in Alan Rusbridger's entertaining memoir "Play It Again". The Rusbridgers had Alfred Brendel round to dinner (as you do ), Brendel tried AR's Fazioli, decided it needed voicing, sent his piano technician Peter Salisbury round who did the business and spoke about voicing pianos for Brendel. Some months later AR found himself talking to Daniel Barenboim (), and told him about the Fazioli, Brendel's visit and Peter's work on the piano. '[Barenboim] started rolling his eyes. "Alfred is so prescriptive about pianos. He's a great, great pianist, a towering intellect and a wonderful humanist. But he f**ks up pianos!" He looked quite aghast that anyone would voluntarily entrust their piano to the tender mercies of Alfred Brendel'
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Originally posted by gradus View PostEvery now and then our elderly Bluthner is 'toned' by our tuner Ron . . .My life, each morning when I dress, is four and twenty hours less. (J Richardson)
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but I do wonder why so many people like to knock Lang Lang off his pedestal.
(We're talking about Lang Lang, by the way.)
I would like to have known what the technician working on LL's piano at the Albert Hall did when LL remarked that the piano sounded "dry" from Middle C upwards. He assured LL that he could do something about it - what would that have been I wonder ?
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Our previous tuner was unhappy when we bought a Steinway - he thought they were harder to tune. However, he set to work on it and apparently did a good job. After he'd left, we discovered a deep gash in the polyester finish.
We called him back later in the day but he denied any negligence even though the damage could only have occurred during the time when the lid had been removed for tuning. SInce then, we've employed the north of England Steinway tuner/technician from Liverpool.
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VodkaDilc
I wish I'd seen this. I hope it's being repeated sometime (don't BBC4 programmes get repeated during the week). Otherwise I might have to resort to the i-thing. I have fond memories of visiting the restoration department in the Marylebone Lane basement when they had my piano there for a few months. There seems to be some concern that they have been a bit slow in training up technicians to take the place of the generation nearing retirement; I'm not sure if that was mentioned in the programme.
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Originally posted by VodkaDilc View PostThere seems to be some concern that they have been a bit slow in training up technicians to take the place of the generation nearing retirement; I'm not sure if that was mentioned in the programme.
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Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View PostAnother dying craft?
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