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
Russian guitar G-major. While the Spanish guitar is tuned in fourths with one (major) third (G–B), the Russian guitar is tuned in thirds (G–B, B–D, G–B, and B–D) with two fourths (D–G, and D–G): This tuning is thought to have been derived either from the baroque cittern (of the English guitar type), or might be from that of the torban, a Ukrainian variety of theorbo, as one of its tunings was also based on major triads. <br>Nevertheless, major guitar historians insist that the Russian 7-string tuning was invented in 1793 by Sychra, acknowledged harpsist of the 18th century, in order to adapt