In reply to Small_Angel.

@ mr diva...

you continue to underrate importance of 'tone' to one's ear. if the "tone isn't there then, to most, what is there is pretty irrelevant. flat tone=no good. shrill tone (bey...sometimes)=worse. when i first heard her sing 'listen' from 'dreamgirls' it was like sucking on a lemon. actually her voice varied between shrill and flat in that song. after my ears stopped bleeding it grew on me. i like bey so all you beehive babies move back.

you claim "you wouldn’t call “a great pianist” someone who happens to have a nice piano but never learned to play it " however, if a great pianist is playing a piano that's out of tune (tone) using his expert technique won't do a thing to make it sound good.