Author Topic: Glenn Gould, keyboard maestro and fellow keyboard modder  (Read 802 times)

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Offline quietobserver

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Glenn Gould, keyboard maestro and fellow keyboard modder
« on: Sat, 24 October 2020, 15:08:25 »
Just watching the amazing way this man's fingers dance across the keyboard inspires me to go do some tap-tap-tap of my own on my (much-less-musical but still beloved) keyboard.



This quote by him (from wikipedia) was also fascinating:

'In the case of Bach, Gould noted, "(I) fixed the action in some of the instruments I play on—and the piano I use for all recordings is now so fixed—so that it is a shallower and more responsive action than the standard. It tends to have a mechanism which is rather like an automobile without power steering: you are in control and not it; it doesn't drive you, you drive it. This is the secret of doing Bach on the piano at all. You must have that immediacy of response, that control over fine definitions of things.'

Re: Glenn Gould, keyboard maestro and fellow keyboard modder
« Reply #1 on: Sat, 24 October 2020, 15:40:14 »
One of the great 20th century pianists, I always get disappointed when I listen to Art of Fugue on piano and wish that Glenn Gould recorded a complete version on piano.