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  @dapje2002Күн бұрын

  I have a question: I remember seeing a photograph of Wanda Landowska's instrument with about 8 pedals. What's the story there?

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  @dapje2002Күн бұрын

  Very interesting! I learned a lot. Thank you :-)

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  @johnstuart99652 күн бұрын

  kzread.info/dash/bejne/dJt5uK6DXarHdKQ.html

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  @johnstuart99652 күн бұрын

  I restored it the Harpsichord not retired, sorry, here is another sample.. kzread.info/dash/bejne/Zp5qubKOnbHJh9I.html

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  @johnstuart99652 күн бұрын

  I found at AUction Lurches Italian Harpsichord and retired it and tuned it, here is a video sample of me playing on it.. kzread.info/dash/bejne/mJiErsWykZXXf6Q.html

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  @yee28672 күн бұрын

  dont know if someone else ask this but, are the higher key heavier? for the difference in lenght

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  @martinh127713 күн бұрын

  I have a problem with Vallotti Tuning and other tunings. Vallotti was first a musician, then a priest, then chief of the big church in Padua. He published his tuning 1778, a few years before he died. So I expect it was an Organ tuning and it was tuned in Padua. An Organ Builder came for tuning. He was paid and the receipt was archived and is still available. I do not know someone, who has seen this receipt. That means, it was not in use for organ. For Harpsichord then? There is no source for tuning a harpsichord in Vallotti at that time. First source is of the 20th century. If this is all right, you harpsichordists use an organ tuning, which was not used and find it very interesting. ;-) Silbermann was an organ builder and managed to tune an organ in his Silbermann tuning. Probably he had to tune the Organ in a normal way, tuned in Silbermann first, did not inform the parish and informed Bach to come and test. Bach came and found several mistakes. The tuning was useless. Now some harpsichordists are glad to play a useless Organ tuning. ;-) Buxtehude met Werckmeister. They conspired to tune Buxtehudes Organ in Werckmeister III. Again, there is no cource that it was tuned. The perish decided to give the order to a local master. We don't know, what he tuned. A friend of mine played an Organ with Werckmeister III. The A-major was useless. A-major is the dominant of d-minor. D-minor is probably the most common key in Barock organ music. This tuning used on an Organ is doubtful. Now we have harpsichordists tuning their harpsichord in this doubtful Organ tuning and like it very much. ;-) 1802 Zang wrote about organ tunings in common. He suggested to stop writing new tunings, just temper the Organ and take the sound as it is. First source for tempered tuning on an organ is from France. They tuned, listened the result and soon tuned the Organ again. Zang was sick and tired from hundred years of inventing tunings for the Organ and not tuning one of them. That is, how it looks. Das Wohltemperirte Clavir and his tuning. Harpsichordist fly on this theme like flies on marmalade. Bach wrote this to make very good organists out of good organists. Translate the cover sheet. First pupils were his sons. A very good organist passed the Organistenprüfung from Mattheson. Afterwards he had one of the few very good jobs for Organists. This was not meant for performance. We have no source, that is was performed at that time. We have sources, that Bach composed to rich in content for many audience, even concerning his normal Organ works. Performing Das Wohltemperirte Clavir was impossible for this reason. Nowadays our good harpsichordists work a lot until they perform it. ;-) How Bach tuned his harpsichord to play Das Wohltemperirte Clavir? There were no audience, who could like a special spice in every key. So he tuned tempered, by ear and did one tuning in 15 minutes, as a student writes. This is possible with tempered. Tune the 12 intervals, 7 times pure fifts, five times fifths you can slightly hear, the interval is to small. A a small fifth follows a pure fifth. This is tempered by ear. Our harpsichordist try different tunings, Vallotti, Neidhard, Kirnberger and like it very much. Tuning lasts a lot more than 15 minutes. So something must be wrong here. Can't you just do the job instead of fooling around? ;-) Das Wohltemperirte Clavir is the holy gral for the harpsichordists but they don't know it. Did you know, that somewhere in the middle of it there is a peregrinus? It is completly out of time. You make a harmonic analysis with major and minor and this is very complicated. Just call it Peregrinus and everything is clear. Next thing you don't know are the hidden corals. There is at least 13 of it in the Book I. You all like to play it, but up to now, nobody knows it ;-)))

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  @martinh127714 күн бұрын

  Dear Alice, you have a problem with the definition of Baroque. It is 1600 to 1750. Why? Because man has 10 fingers. So they took these numbers. Music has always been a part of society. Sometimes society changed abruptly and so did music. One big change was the last of October 1517. Martin Luther stood with a hammer at Wittemberg church. The following big change has even the name "Revolution". French Revolution, 1789, the head of Louis XVI fell on the ground. We also have a date with precision. If you did so, you would not have a problem to call Vallotti Temperament from 1778 "Baroque" and you would see Baroque Music with a better foundation and in a new way.

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  @grantheron459520 күн бұрын

  Is the virginal not a harpsichord?

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  @trinacondie437221 күн бұрын

  I echo the sentiments of the other commenters on how informative this video is. I especially appreciated how the camera shots of the interior were remarkably clear and beautiful. Well done!

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  @boshlankh963824 күн бұрын

  This is beautiful!

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  @martinh1277Ай бұрын

  "Ornaments can be added, according to the good taste." They all write so. This must be very important. Good taste of whom and what is good taste? If you ask the philosophers, hardly one talks about it. The few bring some aphorisms and that was it. Can it be defined?

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  @martinh1277Ай бұрын

  I am just a silly Viola Player. This is true! One day I could accompany a recorder. I sat at an harpsichord and just played single notes in the left hand. It was not artificial, but it worked. Sometimes I was sure and pressed some keys with the right hand. This is the reason, why mankind could not imagine music different to BC. 4 voices are taught, but this was not reality. I made music with good ones, which took up to 6 voices. It was louder. The beginner could play piano, the professional piano and forte and anything between.

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  @martinh1277Ай бұрын

  In the Baroque, they had the one word tempered with two meanings. They had a tuning machine, which was a monochord. They calculated and marked the tempered positions for the bridge. Then they took the tempered tones. There is an existing harpsichord with a built in monochord. The other method was tempering by ear. A pythagoräan 5th was a too large interval. They looked for a too small, but defined interval. This is the 5th, you can hear, it is too small. Then they tuned these intervals one after the other. Maybe they needed more from the one kind. The result was a tuning, that worked like tempered. This sounded better than the tempered tuning from the monochord. This tuning did not have to be written down, because it was so easy as I write it. For this reason you will not find it in the archives, but you can find peaces in a lot of keys.

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  @martinh1277Ай бұрын

  Organs can not be temperated. Imagine, you have a C. The 4th overtone is an harmonic e. Simultaneously you hear a tempered e. This does not sound nice. Up to now there is no good organ tuning. The best is from Klaiss, but it is his secret.

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  @vacmauro58Ай бұрын

  Brava!...

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  @yourfriendlyneighborhoodbi6207Ай бұрын

  2:10 *perfect pitch havers have entered the chat*

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  @willemvandernest3249Ай бұрын

  He Harpsichord sounds so pure in contrast with the piano

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  @jackhayter276Ай бұрын

  Many thanks. Well explained and fascinating to me as a pedal steel player. A pedal steel guitar is basically a 10 string unfretted (slide) guitar with pedals and levers that enable the slurring of, (and within) chords. You can imagine the shrill arguments and head scratching over how to temper the tuning. Even though we can temper on the fly through miniscule movements of the slide bar, the pedals and knee levers are largely fixed interval for mechanical reasons. What frequently happens is that the instrument gets tuned pure thirds so sounds great in the "cowboy keys", but when people try to take the instrument into other more chromatic genres it sounds odd. So we all come up with different tuning sweetening schemes . It's one of the factors that has largely kept pedal steel sadly almost locked in a country music ghetto even though it's an incredibly versatile instrument.

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  @louzander19 күн бұрын

  Pedal steel is absolutely one of the most beautiful instruments. Who are some musicians that are pushing the steel into new areas, or using different temperaments than the pure thirds you mentioned? I'd love to find more pedal steel musicians to listen to!

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  @_harpsiАй бұрын

  Thank you for the informative lesson Alice. I'm interested to learn more about different types of harpsichords, where I might find one and what to look for when purchasing one. Thanks. Tiffany.

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  @peturadungaАй бұрын

  9, the vast majority of his music for key instruments, is written for single manual instrument. (which makes me think it is for clavichord). After having been fascinated by JBS for most of my life, I have the impression that for him music was his primary language. By which I mean that he did not have to realize, or hear music in order to know how it sounds. There simply is more to his music than any other music, that I know and understand. It is a joke to think about him as another Baroque composer. Of course he was a baroque composer, but that is not the most important aspect. Just so I don´t sound like a JSB fanatic, I over the last few years actually have grown some dislike of the person. He was a genius for sure, and never meet any that even came close to him and his abilities, but he did not appear to have any interest in the best thinkers of his time, that challenged the Church, and were developing the modern sciences ... this was simply lacking in his universe.

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  @lukeluke7082Ай бұрын

  A obituary was published two years after he dies written by one of his sons and a close friend/ student of bach. It’s not hugely well known but I enjoyed reading it. Name is Bachs nekrolog which is another name for obituary

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  @brucejohnston6184Ай бұрын

  Thanks for your explanation. I've been meaning to find out for years. Accessible to a great many people I'm sure.

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  @zakaroonetwork7772 ай бұрын

  So what is Baroque if not 415?

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  @RockStarOscarStern6342 ай бұрын

  2:24 Sometimes the editors would alter the Original Manuscripts

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  @JGS20242 ай бұрын

  Excellent job and I thank you for it

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  @RockStarOscarStern6342 ай бұрын

  Alice M. Chuaqui Baldwin, harpsichordist I found out what happened, the Manuscript for those 24 Italian Songs & Arias has been heavily altered & so this edition by Schirmer is based on the Original Manuscripts after someone altered those manuscripts

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  @RockStarOscarStern6342 ай бұрын

  Alice M. Chuaqui Baldwin, harpsichordist I figured it out, it was based on some Manuscripts that were heavily modified.

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  @calebmatthews46442 ай бұрын

  Im so glad I have stumbled upon this channel, thanks so much for the videos they are very helpful :)

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  @DAEDONG_antiques2 ай бұрын

  🙂

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  @SergioValenzuela2 ай бұрын

  The most straightforward practical tuning video i`ve seen, very useful, thank you so much for sharing your deep knowledge and expertise with Us Alice!. ( i´m curious to what´s your favorite temperament for the well tempered clavier by J.S ). Cheers!.

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  @RockStarOscarStern6342 ай бұрын

  Alice M. Chuaqui Baldwin, harpsichordist I read online that this Edition is based on some Manuscripts that have been modified by an Accordionist.

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  @emojijoyio2 ай бұрын

  My piano is baby barque pitch 420 hertz

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  @destein25032 ай бұрын

  Great Channel, a lot of knowledge and input, thanks a lot from m heart ❤️ 😊🙏🏻

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  @user-rw8uq3tv6p2 ай бұрын

  I have loved the harpsichord much more than a piano. The harpsichord has that heavenly tone that warms the heart.

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  @organicphoto2 ай бұрын

  Thank you so much, this was exactly what I was looking for!

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  @janehankey36833 ай бұрын

  This is so helpful. Answered questions that I’ve been carrying for 60 years or more. Thank you. Loved your playing!

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  @ajames2833 ай бұрын

  Handel remained known because 1) UK had fewer great 17th century composers so Handel was more likely to be remembered 2) It was Handel's religious music. Church music was always expected to more conservative and old fashioned instead of showing the latest fads and trends in music. This was known as Stile Antico. 2) UK was old fashioned with music compared to the continent. For example, the last concerto grossos were composed in the U decades after being passed on the continent. Pieter Hellendaal wrote 6 concerto grossos in 1758 in the UK. These were even still in a baroque style. UK still uses old Renaissance note names like "minim". UK still sometimes used meantone temperament until the mid 19th century.

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  @ajames2833 ай бұрын

  Impure 3rd sounds like an augmented triad 😮

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  @faustolemos39173 ай бұрын

  I have to play Handel's Messiah next month and I've never played this style before. This is so helpful. Thank you!

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  @DimRoditis3 ай бұрын

  Thank you very much for the explanation of the instrument!

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  @journeymancellist92473 ай бұрын

  So far quite nice, but would prefer less preliminary blather. PSyoundidnt explain “cents.” Really enjoyed this. Watched it all and will again.

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  @AaronGlenn883 ай бұрын

  Wonderful history of a wonderful instrument. Thank you. Do you have any knowledge or understanding of who invented the keyboard layout specifically? I have not been able to find any details on who created the 2 and 3 key layout. Since the organ came before harpsichord…I can’t find any answers:( any insight would be appreciated!

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  @FighterFred3 ай бұрын

  Not a lot of anecdotes about him. For instance, zero impressions from the audience. And he wrote very little himself about his music, I guess he thought it should speak for itself. A marker of his very high intelligence is that he refused to be controlled by the authorities. That's one factor why he never become famous, in contrast to Handel who sucked it up to royalty. This is evident in the way they treated his widow, they threw her out on the street where she died.

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  @mcginnpiano3 ай бұрын

  why yes I do find myself wanting to learn how to tune 1/4 comma meantone by ear. Thanks!

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  @slapmyfunkybass3 ай бұрын

  Piano is older than the harpsichord???

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  @loreleigoldman24603 ай бұрын

  Bravo!

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  @loreleigoldman24603 ай бұрын

  My husband and I attend the theatre quite often and we’re so lucky as it’s very close to where we live. We attend the opera, the 🩰 ballet as well as 🎭 plays. One conductor plays the pianoforte and conducts at the same time. I know you’re not discussing the pianoforte; but I still find it amazing to watch. Thanks again, Alice. ♥️ 🎹

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  @loreleigoldman24603 ай бұрын

  Thank you for explaining this, Alice. Many of my friends ask questions about my piano vs my harpsichord. You’ve covered all bases here. Well done!

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  @fraukapellmeisterherrbach36384 ай бұрын

  Hello, i discovered your channel a few days ago and i find it very interesting. It's amazing. I practice partimento which is linked to basso continuo. I would love if you could do video on how to play the continuo in different tempi. If there are special ways to accompagny adagio, presto etc..