But in this case what is missing is a sostenuto pedal to hook up the basses, rather than a sustain pedal.
I've ordered a two-octave pedalboard (25 notes rather than an organ's typical 32, but otherwise constructed fairly similarly with long wooden pedals for heel-toe technique), and that might help to play sustained bass notes while the hands are jumping around on the keyboard.
This piece seems to be harmonically dense enough that, played on an organ with its own dense sonorities, sounds rather bizarre on the small speakers of a phone, tablet or laptop computer, rather than through more full-spectrum headphones or external speakers.
]]>Thank you, PianoteqEnthusiast and Lanny.
I'm looking forward to try to develop some appropriate organ technique and to compose some pieces more idiomatic of organ with pedalboard and expression pedal. The lack of a sustain pedal will require some adjustment. Having an Organteq pipe organ in the house certainly makes me want to explore the possibilities.
Lanny, the wooden keys feel good under the fingers, with a very nice amount of friction versus smoothness.
"Lanny, the wooden keys feel good under the fingers, with a very nice amount of friction versus smoothness." I AM SURE.
I LIKE IT,
Lanny
I see you play in your sock feet ... Eliane Elias does that too ... so do I!
]]>I'm looking forward to try to develop some appropriate organ technique and to compose some pieces more idiomatic of organ with pedalboard and expression pedal. The lack of a sustain pedal will require some adjustment. Having an Organteq pipe organ in the house certainly makes me want to explore the possibilities.
Lanny, the wooden keys feel good under the fingers, with a very nice amount of friction versus smoothness.
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]]>Edit-- I had been listening to this piece using my fairly nice headphones and studio monitor speakers, but I just listened to it on my laptop computer with its tiny speakers and it sounds bizarre and musically almost incomprehensible, like frenetic trash.
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