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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
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Posted: Thu Sep 13 13:28:06 1984
Date-Received: Tue, 25-Sep-84 02:18:49 EDT
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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

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