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Olivier Group: Super Admins Posts: 1868 Joined: Nov. 1999 Posted: Dec. 19 2011, 16:22 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRAJrOFLD2Q Harpsichord + Eminent 310 (made famous by Jarre apparently) with wah and phaser. Sound was made really quickly, it's kind of part of the process - perhaps next time I'll record building the sound and then playing with it. I think it sounds nice in the intro and outro, and not so cool, well, 99% of the track. Piano teachers could use this video to show how NOT your left hand should look like. I could redo it correctly, but that "wouldn't be me", keeping this spontaneous one. Fundamental track in music history. Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Dec. 20 2011, 17:31 It sounds like the wind noises on JMJ's Oxygéne. Yes, very very very very very very very very nice. I've played this piece on piano for ages (wasn't it written as a piano piece? or did the piano not exist yet when Bach wrote it?) and I love it. -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

Olivier Group: Super Admins Posts: 1868 Joined: Nov. 1999 Posted: Dec. 20 2011, 18:49 Piano didn't exist yet when he did this pieces (1722). Harpsichord is beautiful in that you have the perfect excuse not to be expressive (it's a plectrum plucking a string, no much expression you can put in). Then Glenn Gould plays it on a piano like he'd only have a harpsichord, staccato. He is so weird. Everybody else plays this on the piano with lot of expression. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0egJr6nvCQI http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano Silbermann showed Johann Sebastian Bach one of his early instruments in the 1730s, but Bach did not like it at that time, claiming that the higher notes were too soft to allow a full dynamic range. Although this earned him some animosity from Silbermann, the criticism was apparently heeded. Bach did approve of a later instrument he saw in 1747, and even served as an agent in selling Silbermann's pianos. Back to top

wiga Group: Members Posts: 2113 Joined: Sep. 2008 Posted: Dec. 22 2011, 15:52 Another lovely tune - and your left hand is just fine. -------------- Barn's burnt down - now I can see the moon. Back to top

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