tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6115345479350954256.post5062245521088688308..comments2023-10-14T15:52:29.871+01:00Comments on Tango commuter: Tango in small placesTangocommuterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14060601718946750364noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6115345479350954256.post-957676443574711762011-11-25T20:06:42.819+00:002011-11-25T20:06:42.819+00:00Hi RP! Best wishes for the floor and the sprouts! ...Hi RP! Best wishes for the floor and the sprouts! <br /><br />True a piano works best in a controlled environment - but it's done pretty well in bars and dance halls for a long time, perhaps less rather than more in tune, but still serviceable. You see old uprights being wheeled on trolleys along the cobbled streets in San Telmo for busking tango orquestas. And tango in its widest sense flourishes everywhere, but I'm not sure that the tango of the milongas of Buenos Aires travels so easily. Not that I've visited widely enough to know, but people outside Argentina are generally less attuned to the music.<br /><br />What do you reckon?Tangocommuterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14060601718946750364noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6115345479350954256.post-2789823037519832302011-11-25T16:27:38.937+00:002011-11-25T16:27:38.937+00:00Along these lines I often think of an idea I ran a...Along these lines I often think of an idea I ran across once: that the piano is the ultimate bourgeois instrument because it requires a totally controlled environment of just the right temperature and humidity for the piano to stay playable.<br />Where can the hot house flower of tango developed in Buenos Aires also bloom?RealityPivotshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02572224513774508373noreply@blogger.com