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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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In Reply to: Early Mozart works for organ, clavichord & harpsichord - harpsichords can sound unpleasant posted by John C. - Aussie on October 1, 2006 at 12:55:23:
Even when heard live (and thus avoiding having to consider any relevance of a recording engineer’s skill or competence), different folk can naturally have very different reactions to the sounds delivered from the different musical instruments...As an example, though I most certainly DO like the varying sounds heard from different models of harpsichord, I sadly find that an awful lot of piano sounds unpleasantly remind me of this instrument’s percussion heritage... I require the interpretative and technical skills of a Curzon or Pollini (or Fats Waller!) to make music played on a piano sound “musicalâ€, rather than simply distasteful...
Naturally there may well be lots of instances where personal reactions are the polar opposite of mine... As an example, I believe that conductor Thomas Beecham described the sounds from a harpsichord in a BBC interview as sounding like "two skeletons copulating on a corrugated tin roof"...
Whilst is is obviously possible either that there may have been faults in the original recording or that your system still has faults in displaying harmonics, your lady wife may simply be displaying a similar response!....
Bill.
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- Simply a matter of personal taste?... - feet's too big 00:18:08 10/02/06 (1)
- Ah! It was Beecham; thanks ~nt - Feanor 07:01:06 10/04/06 (0)
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