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
Tuned filter Tuned filter In signal processing, a tuned filter is a stage in the processing channel which accepts or rejects signals which are tuned for a specific type. Historically, the concept of tuning was to maintain a specific musical scale. When choruses sing "in tune", the music reinforces itself with higher harmonics; aesthetically, the notes are more pleasing to the ear. But when signals are "out of tune", "dissonance" occurs; the effect is most noticeable for musical groups of small children, who have not been trained to sing in tune. Tuning became important for the development of radio broadcasts. Stations learned