PIANO

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Comment by Steve Moshier on November 7, 2009 at 2:42am

We like this piano combination...

Comment by peter thoegersen on November 6, 2009 at 6:26pm

The piano is like 88 little drums.

Comment by Shane W. Cadman on November 6, 2009 at 5:47pm

I love the piano. The sound. The immediacy. I only have a small upright, but it does the trick. Real strings vibrating! Someday I'd love to have two Grands - one in ET and one in Just Intonation.

Comment by Aynne Pryce on November 6, 2009 at 3:07pm

I first fell in love with the piano sitting underneath it on an auditorium stage in Poughkeepsie, listening to my piano teacher play and feeling the vibrations of the notes against the huge brass plate and rich wood. I watched his fingers melt into the keys from under it... I was invisible. I was the piano music. I was the keys. I was the droning. Many years later in Tucson, I approached a stranger fixing a piano in a cathedral and asked to be his apprentice. I rode my bike with the guts of the piano under my arm in tow while in college. Next, I went to London and was given a key to a piano shoppe, where I sat in the window each night, repairing the innards of each piano. I would carry the guts home on the train and get all kinds of looks. It was a sweet and peaceful life, and thanks to the piano, it still is.

Comment by Paul H. Muller on November 6, 2009 at 1:28pm

Well I tend to come up with a lot of piano music because it lends itself to minimalism - a steady pulse will sound better to the ear on a piano, I think. What I miss is the ability to sustain whole notes or long pedal notes - something that is useful for minimalism. So the instruments that are used to compliment the piano in my music tend to be woodwinds because they can sustain a tone and naturally contrast with the percussive pulse of the piano.

The other thing is, and this sounds trivial, is that you can generally count on a midi piano realization to be fairly convincing. With strings you never know what your going to get and it can vary with register...

Just did a piece for organ and flute this past week that is pure bombast - because the organ can deliver a bigger punch than the piano.

Comment by Antonio Celaya on November 6, 2009 at 12:27pm

I can relate to Paul's struggle. I am in the same boat. I sent the score of a song on with which I am struggling to a friend, who is a pianist. He had an excellent suggestion for me. I really wanted that rich piano resonance of idiomatic writing. He pointed out to me that Chopin used bass lines in a very particular manner to artlcluate upper partials. I am going to dig out the etudes (and make my wife play passages for me)

Comment by Paul H. Muller on November 6, 2009 at 12:11pm

I've been writing piano music but have zero keyboard skills. Maybe this will help me keep everything playable...

Comment by Jeff Harrington on November 6, 2009 at 8:55am

Great idea! :)