Greetings, Here is a new one on me, it comes from the piano-L list: >>Jonathan Gonder performed the Bach-Busoni Chaconne in d minor. In one of the passages, near the end of the piece, the very lowest notes of the piano were heard fortissimo in a descending line which went beyond the lowest A of the piano to a G. Jon said how this tone was produced, I can't remember what he said other than that he struck two notes, a fourth apart, and that in doing so, the low G was produced. He said that organists do this to compensate when they do not have pipes which go low enough. Can anyone explain this to me? << Ideas, anyone? Ed Foote RPT www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/ www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html <A HREF="http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/399/six_degrees_of_tonality.html"> MP3.com: Six Degrees of Tonality</A>
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