And now, for something completely different, I wonder how this harpsichord piece will "sound" to you? Elaine Comparone often prefers to stand while playing her own harpsichords and has built elevated frames to raise the instruments...
Actually there's a story here, but I'll try to keep it short.
A few years ago, right here on this message board, I asked our good friend Eupher why, since the harpsichord was already in existence, had it been necessary to invent the piano?
I was insisting that the piano was a more primitive, a more backward, a cruder, coarser, sort of instrument, as compared with the harpsichord.
And interestingly, I'd also asked the same question of the famous late symphony conductor Sir Adrian Boult in February 1978, whom I'd met when I was a shallow lad much ruder than I am now. (That story's in the Sandhills forum, but the forum's limited access.)
This was because at the time (say, seven or eight years ago, when I inquired of Eupher), the harpsichord was one of the very few musical instruments I could hear with any degree of certainty (all deaf people can "hear"
something, although what we "hear" differs). I could "hear" strings being plucked, but not strings being hammered.
I paid no attention at all to the piano until I was well into middle-age and had suffered a heart-attack. Because I needed some diversion in my crippled state, an audiologist and some other friends, through trial-and-error, wired the internet and my head in such a manner where I could "hear" things rather more than stringed instruments.
This has all taken place only within the past twenty months. Every time I go to youtube I'm discovering something utterly new to me, even though others have been acquainted with such sounds since infancy. So I suppose it's sort of to be expected that franksolich acts like a chlld, or at least a juvenile, when bringing something over from youtube.
It's really and truly new to me, and I'm heartened that I don't seem to have even scratched the surface yet; there's always some delightful surprise around the corner.