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Playing the piano may be hazardous to your health?

Robin wrote 1 month ago: Someday I’d like to do a project on women and piano-playing around the turn of the 19th century. W … more »

Tags: Research, Women and pianos

balance of the hands V

skowroneck wrote 1 month ago: Final post about handedness and keyboard technique Continuo practicing Depending on one’s hand … more »

Tags: basso continuo, Classical Music, Early Music, Harpsichord, Performing Arts, Piano, Practicing

balance of the hands II

skowroneck wrote 1 month ago: Part II of V about handedness and keyboard technique The ideal of balance between the hands of a ke … more »

Tags: Classical Music, Early Music, Harpsichord, Performing Arts, Piano, Practicing

balance of the hands I1 comment

skowroneck wrote 1 month ago: Part I of V about handedness and keyboard technique In one of the interviews presented in Bruno Mo … more »

Tags: Classical Music, Early Music, Harpsichord, Performing Arts, Piano, Practicing

talking to the audience

skowroneck wrote 1 month ago: …and demonstrating historical keyboard actions Public outreach is a term that does very well … more »

Tags: Classical Music, Early Music, Performing Arts, Piano

sitting high sitting low5 comments

skowroneck wrote 1 month ago: The author of one of my books about bicycle maintenance explains how one determines the height of th … more »

Tags: Classical Music, Early Music, Harpsichord, Performing Arts, Practicing

humidifiers

skowroneck wrote 2 months ago: March. Even in Sweden, the sun occasionally shows its shy face, and the days get longer and longer. … more »

Tags: Harpsichord, Early Music, harpsichord maintenance

Schiedmayer fortepiano damage report4 comments

Robin wrote 2 months ago: I just discovered the Waller Manuscripts Collection at the University of Uppsala Library. What a kno … more »

Tags: Online Resources, Research

conference nostalgia: stuttgart, long ago

skowroneck wrote 2 months ago: A post about split bridges (a feature of harpsichord and fortepiano construction, not an accident) o … more »

Tags: Harpsichord, Anecdote, Early Music

the turn of the screw

skowroneck wrote 2 months ago: A while ago, a good friend asked me whether, in a Walter-style fortepiano action, one could reduce p … more »

Tags: Classical Music, Early Music, Harpsichord, harpsichord maintenance, Performing Arts

technique - competition in what?1 comment

skowroneck wrote 2 months ago: A fellow student once looked at my penciled figures in an Allemande by Louis Couperin, made a smart … more »

Tags: Harpsichord, Classical Music, Practicing, Piano, Early Music, Performing Arts

slipping loops

skowroneck wrote 3 months ago: Early in January, a friend asked on the hspchd list about how to deal with slipping loops of brass s … more »

Tags: Early Music, Harpsichord, harpsichord maintenance

basic tuning technique

skowroneck wrote 4 months ago: Long ago, at the conservatory of the Hague, I used to have a yoga class directly before my harpsicho … more »

Tags: Early Music, Harpsichord

hand choreography and fingering IV2 comments

skowroneck wrote 5 months ago: The opening Allegro vivace of Beethoven’s sonata Op. 2/2 contains right-hand octave triplets ( … more »

Tags: Classical Music, Practicing, Piano, Performing Arts

fortepiano finding happy end

skowroneck wrote 5 months ago: A few weeks ago the piano restorer who bought the fortepiano that I had “found” in Göte … more »

Tags: Classical Music, Early Music


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