Topic: Piano Video: Ray Charles on a well-mic'ed grand
Another one. Willie Nelson and Ray Charles singing "Seven Spanish Angels." Taking a break from Chopin. Great rock piano sound, to me. (If you can say that a piano has a rock sound when most of the people in the band are wearing Stetsons.) Hard hammers and close mics, but the chords come through cleanly in those middle octaves. Around 1:30, you can see that one mic seems to be inches from the strings.
The piano sound comes out MUCH better if you download the file using RealPlayer. A lot more presence:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8A9Y1Dq_cQ
(Once installed, RealPlayer, while you watch YouTube videos, pops up a button asking if you want to download the file, which in this case is an flv. Using the Applian flv player--I was surprised by how much better the sound is, playing the file after downloading it.)