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In Reply to: Re: Early Mozart works for organ, clavichord & harpsichord - harpsichords can sound unpleasant posted by musetap on October 1, 2006 at 13:40:50:
Live, the harpsichord is not a loud instrument. Maybe we have a tendency to turn the volume up too high and exaggerate the harmonics? And all those harmonics are not easy to reproduce either, so add in a wad of amplified and unpleasant distortion and it is no wonder the sound is distasteful.I should add that the harpsichord sound here is much better since the installation of the McIntosh C200 -> Furutech interconnects -> Halcro amp -> Sound Labs Elecrostatic speakers. But the system does not make all harpsichord recordings sound good so I must query whether the recording techniques are sometimes at fault with this instrument.
John
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- ... or maybe we tend to listen to the harpsichord at uinrealistic levels? - John C. - Aussie 14:49:03 10/01/06 (3)
- Abdiel - Carson 12:34:25 10/23/06 (0)
- Good points... - musetap 19:30:11 10/01/06 (1)
- I heard Hogwood live years ago and . . . - risabet 12:17:03 10/04/06 (0)
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