[Leica] Messrs Tatum, Waller and Horowitz on the keys

[Afterswift at aol.com (Afterswift@aol.com)]

In a message dated 5/29/05 9:46:21 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
lug-request@leica-users.org writes:
True...But his peer (Art Tatum) surely played on more than a few beat up 
uprights...as did Fats Waller.
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Tatum and Waller often played in combos. Also, their music took advantage of 
improvisation and unexpected mode shifts. They created the music more than 
their instruments. But on the classical side, Horowitz needed the Steinway 
-- he 
mostly played his own wherever he performed -- for volume and power and 
well-tuned to work with an orchestra. However, I doubt whether Tatum and 
Waller 
would have used less than an ideal instrument when they recorded. I believe 
that 
Steinway also makes uprights. 

Bob