thumper board

[gordon stelter]

Heard  a segment on NPR about that ( sorry, don't
remember name ) lady who just died, who made a career
of Bach. It pointed out the best thing I've ever heard
about Bach, i.e. that Bach is TRANCE music, NOT show
music!!!
It is to help put the player and listener into a
spiritually meditative state. Not display keyboard
prowess.
     Thumpe

--- KENNETH FINLAYSON <kennyfin@jetstream.net> wrote:
> Why do I love you Thump? 
> 
> Have you wondered LIST? 
> 
> Because as a classical organist, prepared to play in
> the Crystal Palace this Sunday; at least Saint
> Paul's Cathedral, London: any cathedral organist
> knows, especially those who have to earn a living
> tuning pianos, that the thumper board is the
> key-stop rail!
> 
> The old tracker  action of the old organ by the way,
> uses lambskin rather than our formidable buckskin. 
> 
> Which brings us to the point. Why are we playing
> Bach so bloody fast, when the instruments of his
> time were so slow and poor, they had to have a
> thumper board?
> 
> Oh. Slow and poor. I see. Has anyone ever met a rich
> piano tuner? Other than Roger Jolly? Compared to us,
> I mean.
> 
> Kenny Finlayson, RPT
> 


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