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.
Pianist and Piano Technician, Carl Radford, plays more excerpts from some of Mozart's piano sonatas in 1/6 Comma Meantone tuning as demonstrated in videos Was Mozart Mean? parts 1, 2 and 3.
In Part 3 we discuss how you might use this tuning, and compare excerpts from sonatas and see how they sound different when the G# is tuned as an Ab and vise versa.
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...
“So, do you still want to be on the show?” he asked. “We need someone to play ‘As Time Goes by’ on the piano from ‘Casablanca’ this Tuesday. Do you think you can do that?”