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Learn to play Bach: start with making your own piano.
by jb1991 2y ago
Learn to play Bach: start with making your own piano.
- defrost 2y agoBach (Johann Sebastian .. there were many musical Bach's in the family) owned and wrote for harpsichords, lute-harpsichords, violin, viola, cellos, a viola da gamba, lute and spinet. Never had a piano, not even a fortepiano .. though reportedly he played one once.
- generic92034 2y agoHe had to improvise on the Hammerklavier when visiting Frederick the Great in Potsdam. That (improvising for Frederick) is also the starting point for the later creation of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Musical_Offering https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Musical_Offering .
- vixen99 2y agoWe know what he meant.
- jb1991 2y agoYes, I know, but that’s irrelevant. You can replace the word piano in my comment with harpsichord if it makes you happy.
- jahdgOI 2y agoPianos are not proprietary in that they all have the same interface. This is like a web development tutorial in ColdFusion.
- maleldil 2y agoAre you implying that PyTorch is proprietary?
- jb1991 2y agoWe’re digressing to get way off the whole point of the comment, but to address your point, actually piano design has been an area of great innovation over the centuries, with different companies doing it in considerably different ways.