- dazric
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A couple of years ago Stephen Hough played a very memorable Prom concert on this instrument:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDDI8yJ..._rel_pause
- Borealis
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Such a beautiful harpsichord !
- Key Fumbler
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Amaryllis wrote:
Such a beautiful harpsichord !
It's just Victorian bling!
The whole room it was in was practically dripping with gold leaf paint. Chocolate box beauty. A vulgar display of their ill gotten gains.
That's history though, and hopefully the whole royal nonsense will come to an end in a generation or two.
I found the video interesting.
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A beautiful piano, splendid in every respect. I love straight strung pianos, and played a couple of these in a piano shop in Porthmadoc. They lacked the gold bits, but sounded nice.
I use the Erard regularly on Pianoteq; it has a nice tone as the vid showed.
Lovely instrument! The royals went over to Broadwood, it being the only quality piano maker left in the UK now. I owned one, an 1856 7'6" model which had no escapement or much that's in a complex grand action now. That too, sounded well.
Maybe we could do with a bit of opulence in high society again; the proletariat are getting a bit uppity of late.
I'm playing all the right notes but not necessarily in the right order
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I definitely miss a pair of monkeys playing drums on my piano. Alla turca doesn't sound the same.
"And live to be the show and gaze o' the time." (William Shakespeare)
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peterws wrote:
Maybe we could do with a bit of opulence in high society again; the proletariat are getting a bit uppity of late.
Put away the guillotine lads it's the Scarlet Pimpernel!
Maybe it's always there no matter who you dethrone?