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pwhodges:
You see her arranging thin metal rods on the strings at the start. which buzz when the strings under them are played. Obviously this can't be done on an upright; though in the early nineteenth century some upright pianos had a mechanism to rest light parchment or metal flaps against the strings.
Skewbrow:
Should have read: "... I HAD been wondering how they get that metallic ..." Sorry about sloppy proofreading. Anyway, it's a neat trick.
More tricks by Hiromi and her teacher Chick Corea in this video.
I got more interested. Undoubtedly P.W. Hodges would have known all this already. The umbrella concept is that of a prepared piano. It is used in classical music also. According to youtube commenters the piano effects on Arvo Pärt's Tabula Rasa require extra screws between the strings. Check out the second part (starting at about 10:30)
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HON4AswPVk
Theta9:
--- Quote from: Skewbrow on 24 Jan 2020, 03:44 ---My old flatmate referred me to Hiromi and her take of Pachelbel's canon:
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She is obviously having so much fun, and the smile is contagious.
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Hiromi Uehara is such a joy to watch and hear. I must go see her, if she ever brings her neck into my woods.
Morituri:
I noticed today that one of the fugues in my Mozart collection has a rather peculiar title. : "Leck mich im Arsch" - Canon in B flat for 6 Voices
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=C78HBp-Youk
I believe that translates, more or less, as "Lick My Ass." And this is a vocal piece, so he had an entire choir singing it!
This makes me wonder mightily what the circumstances were under which Mozart wrote this, and who that message was intended for. Was it, as it would be in the modern era, an insult, or was this intended, in the outrageous-ranging-to-socially-clueless style Mozart was famous for, as a literal and heartfelt entreaty to an object of his affections?
Tova:
He was simply a fan of scatological humour. His private familial correspondence is filled with it.
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