@winstonalden, have you played this? I can't recall. I wish he still played the piano, but it's locked away.
Gould is a genius, even with the humming.
@winstonalden, have you played this? I can't recall. I wish he still played the piano, but it's locked away.
Gould is a genius, even with the humming.
If he ever started on the Well tempered piano he just might, it is the second piece. The preludes are normally what amateurs play as the fugues are triple difficulty. It took me ages to get thorugh it, but you learn something about music while you are at it. And sad that the piano is stuffed away. I haven't played regularly for two years at least, but I like to have it handy.
First time my wife heard Gould she was furious about the mumbling :) Her temperament is sometimes triggered by strange things; birds, happy people.
Nope. I did the C-minor.
That poor grand piano. 100 years old this year! Someday I'll get a Nord keyboard and never have to worry about tuning - or paying to have it moved!
I started on that too, but then I was distracted and started playing other things. It is a beautiful piece, better tune and more logic than the quirky c-major.
Electric pianos are good, cheap, you can use earphones so you will not disturb your fellow human beings. I have an upright piano with a fine sound. My neighbours (or rather the couple that lives underneath - it's a flat) are not complaining, mostly because they have wild parties with house music and male strippers - and once I was down there fixing some domestic drama when a violent ex-boy-friend turned up. So they kind of owe me a bit of Bach.
Somehow I think your neighbors are getting the better end of the bargain. At least until you install a pipe organ and play the D-minor Toccata and Fugue.
They are indeed. I will have to talk to my wife about the pipe organ. She is actually very tolerant when it comes to music as she grew up in a family where there was almost no music at all. She also likes baroque style so maybe we can have one with putti and skulls.