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As a Bach fan, I struggle to listen to his keyboard works played on piano. The fact that piano is percussive whereas the harpsichord is plucked results in such
by scop 6y ago
As a Bach fan, I struggle to listen to his keyboard works played on piano. The fact that piano is percussive whereas the harpsichord is plucked results in such a change in tone! Thanks for sharing!
- scop 6y agoTo add a concrete example of my comment above, I am listening to the NPR video right now and wow at 11:54 in the video the instrument really brings such a beautiful sound to that section change.
- samstave 6y agoIt was really interesting that you could hear small pieces in there from other songs.. or so it seemed - but wow that insturment is SO beautiful! Unbelievably built.
- benjohnson 6y agoIf you haven't given Wendy Carlos' Bach a try, you may be enjoyable - in my opinion the historic tuning takes the jankyness out and exposes the melody. You do have to suspend the gut reaction to synthesized music.