Palm muting a piano - with a pedal

[GAD]

 

[Opsimath]

I was thinking about pianos a couple of days ago. I'll bet very few pianists have ever tried alternate tunings.

 

[Midnight Toker]

Pretty cool. It's like a gizmo for classical pianists that are too snooty to publicly admit they love the sound of a Rhodes/Wurlitzer.

 

[Canard]

I was thinking about pianos a couple of days ago. I'll bet very few pianists have ever tried alternate tunings.

Out on the fringe of things, there are people who re-map electronic keyboards to other temperaments and to microtonal intervals.

On one of the records by the British group, The Nice, a Keith Emerson pre-ELP thing, Emerson wrote an apology to the band, The Amen Corner, because he had de-tuned the studio piano and stuck tacks in all its hammers for his session, which left The Amen Corner, who came into the studio immediately after, with a Honky Tonk piano they were not expecting and no time to have it restored to proper functionality.

 

[Canard]

Pretty cool. It's like a gizmo for classical pianists that are too snooty to publicly admit they love the sound of a Rhodes/Wurlitzer.

My piano is an exceptionally well-made Japanese no-name brand thing labelled, Fritz Kuhla.

Japan is a country where there is/was a particular genre of crime called "The Piano Murder," in which a neighbour driven insane by the incessant practising of the child in the next apartment would go on an murderous mass killing rampage.

So my piano has a lock position on the mute pedal which takes the volume down to nothing if you play it normally, but if you really hammer the keys you get a very cool approximation of a Rhodes.

 

[Opsimath]

Out on the fringe of things, there are people who re-map electronic keyboards to other temperaments and to microtonal intervals.

On one of the records by the British group, The Nice, a Keith Emerson pre-ELP thing, Emerson wrote an apology to the band, The Amen Corner, because he had de-tuned the studio piano and stuck tacks in all its hammers for his session, which left The Amen Corner, who came into the studio immediately after, with a Honky Tonk piano they were not expecting and no time to have it restored to proper functionality.

He did that to a piano that wasn't even his?!

He's not borrowing my stuff!

 

[Midnight Toker]

My piano is an exceptionally well-made Japanese no-name brand thing labelled, Fritz Kuhla.

Japan is a country where there is/was a particular genre of crime called "The Piano Murder," in which a neighbour driven insane by the incessant practising of the child in the next apartment would go on an murderous mass killing rampage.

So my piano has a lock position on the mute pedal which takes the volume down to nothing if you play it normally, but if you really hammer the keys you get a very cool approximation of a Rhodes.

My early elementary school days violin practicing likely could have caused some Suzuki Method Murders!

 

[chazmo]

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Japan is a country where there is/was a particular genre of crime called "The Piano Murder," in which a neighbour driven insane by the incessant practising of the child in the next apartment would go on an murderous mass killing rampage.
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It's a good thing that bagpipes, accordions, and banjos are not popular in Japan!

How about drum kits??

 

[chazmo]

Very cool. Kind of harpsichord-ish.

 

[davismanLV]

I grew up playing piano and to this day, pianos are just one of my favorite instruments. Even during the disco era, those songs that had a banging piano in there always turned my ear!! These are GREAT!!

 

[Nuuska]

Japan is a country where there is/was a particular genre of crime called "The Piano Murder," in which a neighbour driven insane by the incessant practising of the child in the next apartment would go on an murderous mass killing rampage.

Over here that piece of music in my youth was "Für Elise"
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[5thumbs]

I grew up playing piano and to this day, pianos are just one of my favorite instruments. Even during the disco era, those songs that had a banging piano in there always turned my ear!! These are GREAT!!

Maybe you should've stuck with it. With a better wardrobe and different glasses you might have been:

Elton Tom!