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Balance of the hands V
Final post about handedness and keyboard technique Continuo practicing Depending on one’s handedness, the preparation of continuo bass lines and continuo chords calls for different approaches. O… more »
Tilman Skowroneck
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 »
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 »
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 »
balance of the hands I
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skowroneck wrote 1 month ago: Part I of V about handedness and keyboard technique In one of the interviews presented in Bruno Mo … more »
talking to the audience
skowroneck wrote 1 month ago: …and demonstrating historical keyboard actions Public outreach is a term that does very well … more »
sitting high sitting low
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skowroneck wrote 1 month ago: The author of one of my books about bicycle maintenance explains how one determines the height of th … more »
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 »
Schiedmayer fortepiano damage report
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Robin wrote 2 months ago: I just discovered the Waller Manuscripts Collection at the University of Uppsala Library. What a kno … more »
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 »
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 »
technique - competition in what?
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skowroneck wrote 2 months ago: A fellow student once looked at my penciled figures in an Allemande by Louis Couperin, made a smart … more »
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 »
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 »
hand choreography and fingering IV
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skowroneck wrote 5 months ago: The opening Allegro vivace of Beethoven’s sonata Op. 2/2 contains right-hand octave triplets ( … more »
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 »
