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Patience and PTD.
Even after finetuning the Bechstein action as much as he could, there’s still an imbalance, it plays irregularly. But then he came up with another plan: PTD, Precision Touch Design. – Read more
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Intermezzo: Bechstein being worked on.
In this intermezzo blog I will tell you about the quest for the “perfectly playing instrument”. A rather technical story but after all, this blog-site is about my Bechstein. – Read more
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The singing Piano, Schumann – 2nd. movement Sonate in G minor op.22.
Pianist are funny people: first they choose an instrument which is basically a percussive one, striking strings with a hammer. Then they spend most of their time practicing to make the audience forget that fact by trying to produce a beautiful tone and make the instrument “sing”. – Read more
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From a horizontal point of view, Bach – Duet 1 in E minor BWV 802
Polyphony is a horizontal approach to composing as opposed to the vertical texture where a melody is accompanied, supported, “carried” by chords underneath. – Read more