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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: The only thing a fortepiano is "less" of is a piano, no?... posted by SE on November 6, 2006 at 04:51:40:
. . . for the most part I prefer Bach on harpsichord, clavichord, or organ.Apart from the matter of preference, one could say that those instruments had been developed about as far as they would ever be at the time the music was written.
Your mention of synthecizers and orchestras is a non sequitur; I said that later pianos sound better than earlier pianos, not that we should substitute different instruments.
You do not address my main point, which is not in fact a matter of taste but a matter of fact. The modern piano has a *much* greater expressive range than the pianoforte, and that's good for music.
Though I was once on the OI or HIP bandwagon, these days I find it little more than a novelty to hear OI/HIP versions of music. We all know now that the winds were more prominent in Beethoven's day and that a good deal of the music went faster than we had become used to. We've known those things for a very long time now.
Meanwhile, pluck Mozart or Beethoven out of history and sit them down at a modern grand and ask them if they wish they had one.
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