[Leica] Oscar Peterson

[dnygr at cshore.com (dnygr)]

Oscar Peterson plays a B?sendorfer, not a Baldwin. He's featured in their 
advertising.

Horowitz piano had its hammers incredibly hardened. Anyone playing it but 
him would sound awful. 

Brendl has the hammers on his pianos turned to mush (softened) and then he 
pounds. Barenboim has his piano treated as well. Can't say I like the sound 
he produces. Horowitz, however, was a master of tone, shading, expression. 
His last CD (the one with the transciption of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde) 
shows this side of him well. Only he could make that piano sound 
extraordinary. His special technician, Franz Mohr, has many stories to tell 
about how Horowitz liked his piano.

Serkin used a Steinway, but while I like the way he plays,I don't think his 
piano sounds very good. His playing is special, but not piano.

Glen Gould played a Steinway, but then switched. Was it a Yamahan he went to 
or Baldwin. Ich kann mich nicht richtig entsinnen.

Doug Nygren 

 
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