Piano Technician and Pianist, Carl Radford, is interviewed about how he got into piano tuning, making videos on historical tunings, and Lucky the Wonder Piano.
Carl Radford describes the type of classical well tempered tuning used in this demonstration, and how it differs from the modern tuning, and then performs Bach’s C Major Prelude with the piano tuned in the classical tuning.
I was tuning in a recording studio, when I received an email asking for a bid for the installation of humidity systems for all the 54 pianos in the music department at a major University during their Spring Break.
Carl Radford explains and plays Rachmaninoff's Prelude in G# Minor, but not in the Modern tuning as is usually heard today, rather in a Classical Well Tempered tuning.
Did Mozart compose in the type of Well Tempered tuning that was popular during his day, or did he use an earlier type of tuning called Meantone? In Part 2 we...
Carl Radford performs his own arrangement for piano of the Vocalise Pavane by Gabriel Fauré in F# minor. The piano is tuned to the Thomas Young Classical Well Temperament.
I think he was in some ways still searching for answers, and out of the blue he asked me why I tune pianos. Why do I tune pianos? I hadn’t thought about that in a while, so it took me a few moments to come up with the answer.
Chloe came to the piano and started playing and my heart completely melted when she did. Never have I heard a child that age play with such depth of emotion. You can see the video I took below.