[HN Gopher] Verne Edquist - Glenn Gould's Piano Man ___________________________________________________________________ Verne Edquist - Glenn Gould's Piano Man Author : bookofjoe Score : 48 points Date : 2020-09-08 16:40 UTC (6 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.glenngould.ca) (TXT) w3m dump (www.glenngould.ca) | thirteenfingers wrote: | Man what an extraordinary guy. I love reading about people like | Mr. Edquist who kind of live in the shadow of great artists like | GG and make their art possible, especially when dealing with such | artists requires a bit of head-butting. | | Highly recommend the author's book "A Romance On Three Legs", | which she mentions in the article. | GnarfGnarf wrote: | Glenn Gould's execrable habit of cacophonic humming dooms his | recordings. | wackget wrote: | Don't ever listen to Keith Jarrett or your head will explode. | lb1lf wrote: | Incidentally, I was listening to the Koln concert as I read | this. I laughed out loud. | jedimastert wrote: | Or a huge number of jazz musicians in general. In the jazz | courses I took in college is was part of the training. | spekcular wrote: | Really? What professional pianist besides Jarrett has | audible vocalizations on their recordings? | tectec wrote: | I have an Oscar Peterson CD with audible vocalizations | mynameishere wrote: | You exaggerate but it sure is irritating. It goes to show how | someone's fame will generate all manner of excuses for behavior | that would get slapped out of a beginner--or novice--or any | other professional. | | And--just guessing--I doubt many composers would appreciate the | new, improvised parts. | googlryas wrote: | Disliking something well liked doesn't make you interesting. | frakt0x90 wrote: | I disagree. It's like a painter putting their name/face in a | painting. I always smile when I hear his humming come through | and I rather enjoy his own vocal counterpoint. | Gladdon wrote: | Speaking of Gould, I happen to have a previously unpublished | recording of him playing his own composition "Suite for Twelfth | Night". This might seem like an odd way of sharing it, but I've | been putting it off for a long time because I thought it would be | properly published at some point. I now realize it's never going | to happen unless I do it myself, so here it goes: | https://gofile.io/d/f5ORYZ | | If anyone wants to mirror it, that would be nice. | tzs wrote: | There was an interesting article in Scientific American 25 years | ago about a shortage in expert piano technicians for supporting | concert pianists. Very few people were apprenticing, and the only | US bachelor's degree program in piano technology had just shut | down. | | I wonder if the situation has improved since then? | | Here's a reprint of that article: | http://www.its.caltech.edu/~boyk/essay.htm | TheOtherHobbes wrote: | The UK still runs a couple of courses, one 3 years full time. | But it's an increasingly rare profession. | | Beginner/amateur-level acoustic pianos have largely been | replaced by electronic instruments. In fact it's almost | impossible to give them away. Some homes still have them, but | there are far fewer than there were twenty years ago. | | I know the concert tuners who work in Leeds, and there's enough | professional work for roughly one and a half people. | | Even in London the total number of tuners serving the Royal | College, Royal Academy, the concert halls and opera houses, | recording studios, and the other music colleges is under double | figures. | bityard wrote: | > Beginner/amateur-level acoustic pianos have largely been | replaced by electronic instruments. In fact it's almost | impossible to give them away. | | One of my hobbies is watching the free section on Craigslist. | Perfectly good (sometimes quite beautiful) pianos are one of | the things that show up with surprising regularity. Always | with the caveat, "Must take it away yourself." | jacquesm wrote: | "Years later, Verne often took to quoting his tuning teacher, J. | D. Ansell, whose favorite aphorism was "The only place where | success comes before work is in the dictionary."" | | That's a lovely line. | | There is a similar person living in Toronto who tunes pianos for | Lowrey, his name is Mark Zillman. Incredibly good at what he | does. This must be one of the few professions where not being | able to see well or at all is an advantage. | | Edit: here is an article about him: | | https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/mark-zillmann-o... ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-09-08 23:00 UTC)