The Well-Tuned Piano recording made in 1962 cuts off suddenly after only an hour and a half. Young has also been influential to many composers and musicians throughout his life. Dennis Johnson cites Young as an influence in his composition, "The Second Machine", which is based on four single pitches of Young's "Four Dreams of China". Composer and critic Kyle Gann has said that "The Well-Tuned Piano", "may well be the most important American piano work since Charles Ives's "Concord Sonata", in size, in influence, and in revolutionary innovation." Gann has also called the piece "the most important piano work of the late
Contrabass guitar acoustic bass guitar, so it lacks the "thick" tone of those instruments. Contrabass guitars from the 1970s are often tuned "B0-E1-A1-D2-G2-C3" (B0 being the lowest B on a standard 88 key piano). Some players prefer "B0-E1-A1-D2-F#2-B3"— which preserves the intervals of a standard guitar tuning and makes the top and bottom notes the same pitch. They are usually electric instruments with a solid wooden body. After guitar maker Carl Thompson made a first, arguably non-satisfying attempt to create such an instrument in 1974, Ken Smith built the first entirely usable electric contrabass guitar in 1982. This was again at the