Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site hou5d.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!vax135!houxz!houxm!hogpc!houti!ariel!hou5f!hou5g!hou5h!hou5a!hou5d!mat From: mat@hou5d.UUCP Newsgroups: net.music,net.singles,net.jokes Subject: Piano, Six hands Message-ID: <992@hou5d.UUCP> Date: Wed, 20-Jun-84 10:04:44 EDT Article-I.D.: hou5d.992 Posted: Wed Jun 20 10:04:44 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 21-Jun-84 07:34:20 EDT Organization: AT&T Information Systems Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ Lines: 22 >From the latest Musical Heritage Review, on piano four hands: That the close proximity on the piano bench was not merely a *musical* desideraturm is suggested in a piece by the last of the Bachs, Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst; called punningly *Das Drieblatt* (The Trefoil), it calls for three players -- a guy and two dolls. The gent sits in the middle, playing the high treble and the low bass, necessitating putting his arms around his partners waists. -David M. Greene This fellow Greene routinely digs up obscure facts and commits bizzare puns. Of course, I wouldn't mind reversing the roles(!) -- bet your piano teacher didn't tell you about THIS piece. -- from Mole End Mark Terribile (scrape..dig) hou5d!mat ,.. .,, ,,, ..,***_*.