On Aug 5, 2013, at 4:37 PM, Mark Seifert wrote:
> I think it was Greenberg who said in his Bach course that Bach didn't
> like Silbermann's pianos, though he loved Silbermann's organs and
> harpsichords. Bach was the heaviest hitter I could think of for help
> in politically attacking the
On Aug 5, 2013, at 4:37 PM, Mark Seifert wrote:
> Are you a piano player as well as a lute enthusiast?
No, and my guitarist's repertoire of derogatory comments about the piano is now
used only to annoy my keyboard-playing wife. There's an upright piano and a
Flemish double-manual harpsichord
On Aug 4, 2013, at 9:11 PM, Mark Seifert wrote:
> Dear Sirs,
> I remember reading that Hoppy Smith encountered severe difficulty
> studying music theory because he did not play keyboard, but toughed it
> out and succeeded. I dropped out of Music Theory 2 freshman year
> because of not
hetic later watching her nostalgically
play a toy 16?-key plastic piano provided to the kids.
Are you a piano player as well as a lute enthusiast?
Mark Seifert
From: howard posner
To: lutelist
Sent: Sunday, August 4, 2013 9:54 AM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: general public Lute awaren
From: Martyn Hodgson
To: Stephen Kenyon
Sent: Monday, 5 August 2013, 7:12
Subject: Re: [LUTE] Re: general public Lute awareness (but re guitar
exams)
Dear Stephen Kenyon,
Whilst I can see, and agree, with much of your position, attributing to
pianists generally a level
On Aug 4, 2013, at 5:11 AM, Mark Seifert wrote:
> Why the piano chauvinism in modern music? I don't like piano (except
> maybe Debussy, Rachmaninoff, Chopin, Hummel, Schumann, Tim Story)
You might want to check out this dude named Beethoven.
> Bach firmly rejected the newfangled
> 1709 pia
st
Sent: Sunday, 4 August 2013, 12:12
Subject: [LUTE] Re: general public Lute awareness (but re guitar
exams)
Bill, that's not an entirely complete assessment of this
situation in
my view. The pianist is expected to assess all other
instruments, not
just guitars,
Subject: Re: [LUTE] Re: general public Lute awareness (but re guitar
exams)
Bill, that's not an entirely complete assessment of this situation in
my view. The pianist is expected to assess all other instruments, not
just guitars, and one important reason for it is that part of the e
Seifert
; gary ; lutelist
Sent: Sunday, 4 August 2013, 12:12
Subject: [LUTE] Re: general public Lute awareness (but re guitar exams)
Bill, that's not an entirely complete assessment of this situation in
my view. The pianist is expected to assess all other instruments, not
Bill, that's not an entirely complete assessment of this situation in
my view. The pianist is expected to assess all other instruments,
not just guitars, and one important reason for it is that part of
the exam assessment consists of aural test which have to be played
competently on a pi
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