<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div>these " thumping " or " pounding " references to either gg's harpsichord or piano playing are beginning to get a bit tiresome. YOU might want to live in a world inhabited exclusively by the likes of lionel party, but please, leave me out. i prefer gg's emotional bluster to effete intellectual purity anytime. </div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><br><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Brad Lehman <bpl@umich.edu><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Discussion of the Canadian pianist Glenn Gould. <f_minor@glenngould.org><br><b><span style="font-weight:
bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wed, July 21, 2010 11:22:57 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [f_minor] sonic collision<br></font><br>
On 7/21/2010 9:33 AM, Houpt, Fred wrote:<br>> I think GG played the Clavichord but maybe not recorded on such.<br><br>I don't recall seeing any mention of Gould playing the clavichord, anywhere in the Gould literature that I've seen. Given the way he hit that Wittmayer "harpsichord" too hard, pounding the jacks into the rail, I don't think he had any clue about playing the clavichord or using its fingerings, either. :)<br><br>Wanna hear somebody hit a clavichord hard? Oscar Peterson's album of "Porgy and Bess", accompanied by Joe Pass on guitar. The person in charge of the clavichord said later that they'd had to retune the instrument after every take, because Peterson was bending the strings so much with his touch.<br><br>Brad Lehman<br><br></div></div><div style="position:fixed"></div>
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