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[Sal]

Old avatar photo from 2003.




EDIT: best guess for photo in a Google image search is beard, lol.

[Tea Earl Grey Hot]

Practicing right now.

[mlmooney89]

Practicing right now.

I'm super jelly right now.

[brewer]

Very nice. Is that a harpsichord?

[Tea Earl Grey Hot]

Yes.

Here's me today playing the ending of a Bach fugue I'm currently learning. It's a little out of tune right now. Didn't have time to tune it today. And my phone's mic sucks (sounds much better in person).

[brewer]

Yes.

Here's me today playing the ending of a Bach fugue I'm currently learning. It's a little out of tune right now. Didn't have time to tune it today. And my phone's mic sucks (sounds much better in person).

Cool. I played pie-annie from age 4 to 20. Tried organ but could never get the feel right of holding the keys down. My brain expected the sound to continue after I lifted like on the piano.

How does the harpsichord touch differ from piano or organ?

Do you ever dress up like Lurch?

[Alex K]

Practicing right now.

You, you, you... harpsichord owner! You should be ashamed having one while I toil away on my stage piano.

So whatcha playing? I'm huge fan of baroque music if you haven't already guessed from my classical music thread.

[Alex K]

I don't recognize it, some kind of sonata? Is this native harpsichord music with all the dynamics in there?

[Tea Earl Grey Hot]

Harpsichord keyboards are very light. They feel much closer to organ keys but a bit more tactile due to the sensation of the plectra plucking the strings. They don't require any arm or body weight. All the motion for striking a key is limited to the fingers so it feels sort of like typing. If I were to play a piano as lightly as a harpsichord you'd hear nothing. Haha. We also tend to use much different fingerings, especially in older music from the medieval and renaissance where we barely use our thumbs and play scales with patterns such as 3434 and 3232. But with Bach we use more modern fingerings since he's so difficult.

And yes, all classical musicians dress like Lurch actually.

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I don't recognize it, some kind of sonata? Is this native harpsichord music with all the dynamics in there?

It's the last two pages of a fugue from a sonata. It was intended for either harpsichord or clavichord. It also exists as the very famous solo violin sonata in A minor. Bach later made this arrangement for keyboard.

[Alex K]

Harpsichord keyboards are very light. They feel much closer to organ keys but a bit more tactile due to the sensation of the plectra plucking the strings. They don't require any arm or body weight. All the motion for striking a key is limited to the fingers so it feels sort of like typing. If I were to play a piano as lightly as a harpsichord you'd hear nothing. Haha. We also tend to use much different fingerings, especially in older music from the medieval and renaissance where we barely use our thumbs and play scales with patterns such as 3434 and 3232. But with Bach we use more modern fingerings since he's so difficult.

And yes, all classical musicians dress like Lurch actually.

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I don't recognize it, some kind of sonata? Is this native harpsichord music with all the dynamics in there?

It's the last two pages of a fugue from a sonata. It was intended for either harpsichord or clavichord. It also exists as the very famous solo violin sonata in A minor. Bach later made this arrangement for keyboard.

Ah the clavichord option explains it Nice! Yes I know the transscribed violin sonatas but I don't know them by heart of course.