A trifle situation...

[elisha-jt@juno.com (Elisha J Tseng)]

Dear F-minor members (especially those who are specialized in recording),
I went to the Nat'l Archive GG Website. I frequent there often whenever I
have research paper to type and like to type with music in the backgroud.
 There are clips with duration as long as 20 min.  I liked the Strauss
Burleske for Piano and Orchestra and listened to that one the best of
other clips.  I have assorted pitch, and when I heard it, I recognized it
as c# minor(it begins with e major).  I got interested enough to do
research on the piece, only to discover that it is d minor, not c#!!  I
thought something was wrong with me, so I played the chords on the piano
with the computer stereo blaring, and convincingly enough it sounds like
c# minor.  Then I took my Images CD 1 and played the two part invention
No.1 along with the clip where GG played some sinfonias and one part
contained this piece.(I had suspicion that when GG said e flat, it
sounded like d)  The clip was flat-COMPLETELY.  I had to turn it off
because it sounded uncomfortably dissonant from the CD.  Try it: play the
two pieces at once.
I learned that GG lived around the time when there was still conflict in
standardizing the correct pitch.(Correct me if I'm wrong(;-)  Does the
piano always sounds flat when recorded on an ordinary recording machine? 
Or was it GG's piano?(I doubt it, though.)
Regards, Elisha





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