Glenn Gloud

[David Love]

Try it.  Sit down in a chair with the seat worn through and low enough that
your chin almost rests on the keyboard and play the piano with the fallboard
in and out.  I'm joking a bit, of course, but it does make a difference.

David Love


----- Original Message -----
From: "Susan Kline" <sckline@home.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: September 10, 2001 7:29 AM
Subject: Re: Glenn Gloud


> At 09:48 PM 9/9/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>
> >Gould liked to play deep into the keys (toward the fallboard).  Removing
> >the fallboard kept him from bumping into it.  He also may have felt that
> >he heard the piano better with the sound coming out through the action
> >cavity unimpeded.
> >
> >David Love
>
> Interesting thought ... I never imagined a lot of tone coming through the
> action cavity, though.
>
> Wasn't there some commentary about the fallboard being off for that
> recording? The Goldberg Variations involve so much crossing and
interlacing
> of hands that it is the very devil to find room for what you have to do.
> And why have the thing there, in the way, anyhow? Looking at a well-used
> practice grand, there are always huge gouges above the keys in the
> fallboard. Obviously it gets in the way for non-casual playing.
>
> Susan
>