Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!zehntel!zinfandel!hplabs!hao!seismo!brl-tgr!wmartin From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) Newsgroups: net.music.classical Subject: Harpsichord Keyboards Message-ID: <4584@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Thu, 13-Sep-84 13:28:06 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.4584 Posted: Thu Sep 13 13:28:06 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Sep-84 02:18:49 EDT Organization: Ballistics Research Lab Lines: 15 I was watching the "Live from Lincoln Center" "Bach to Bach" concert last night on PBS, and noticed something I found odd when they showed a shot of the harpsichordist's hands as he played. The harpsichord he was using had two keyboards; he played mostly on the bottom one. However, as he played this one, some of the keys on the upper keyboard moved also, though no one touched them. In other shots, you could see that there were no pedals (I had first wondered if he was playing something with his feet that was connected in parallel with the upper keyboard, but that was wrong). Are the two keyboards of this sort of harpsichord connected together somehow, so that pressing one key also moves its corresponding one on the other set? What is the purpose of the two sets of keys, then? Will Martin seismo!brl-bmd!wmartin or wmartin@almsa-1.ARPA