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
Compositions for Guitar by Takashi Yoshimatsu has the low E string (6th string) tuned down a full step and a half to C♯, and both the A string (5th string) and D string (4th string) are tuned down half a step to give G♯ and C♯. The player is instructed to hang a bell on the tuning peg which is used throughout the piece alongside other percussion effects including tambour and Bartok pizzicato. Both pieces are played in free time. "Tender Toys for Guitar" is a series of eighteen pieces (eleven solo pieces and seven duets) for classical guitar, composed by Takashi Yoshimatsu. They were first