These recordings allowed me to evaluate my work from somewhere other than at the piano at the time of the tuning.
Each recording is 3 – 4 minutes long and may include some extraneous noises, noisy pedaling, flubbed notes, and a customer or two customers chiming in not knowing I was recording. These recordings were made with an iPhone 5 on a plate strut or on top of the vertical piano.
I start with some chords, then a snippet of a Beethoven Sonata in various permutations – handy for listening to the treble tuning, and lastly a more contemporary sampling.
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Baldwin 7′
Baldwin M
Boston GP193 Grand
Chickering 5’9″
George Steck Grand
Kohler & Campbell Console
Kohler & Campbell SKG 500 Grand
Kohler & Campbell SKG 600 Grand
Kimball 5250 (5’2″) Grand
Kimball ‘La Petite’ Grand
Kawai 506 Vertical
Kawai GM10 Grand
Kawai K-2 Vertical
Kawai RX7 Grand
Kawai RX7 2564. . . Grand
Kawai Shigeru SK3 Grand
Kawai UST Vertical
Mason Reich (Canada) Console
Mystery Piano (???)
Story & Clark Console
Steinway 1098 45″ Vertical
Steinway B
Steinway K52 upright
Steinway L (1977)
Steinway L (2001)
Wurlitzer Studio
Yamaha (Cable Nelson) CN151 Grand
Yamaha C6 Grand
Yamaha DU1A Vertical
Yamaha G2 J-Series Grand
Yamaha GC1 Grand
Yamaha GC2 Grand
Yamaha M25 Console
Yamaha P22 Vertical
Yamaha T118 Vertical
Yamaha T118PE Vertical
Young Chang G157 Grand
Young Chang PG185 Grand