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.
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...
