Re: bradley and clavichord

[John Hill <jphill@home.com>]

Bradley Lehman wrote:

> At 11:12 AM 7/17/2000 -0700, Jim Morrison wrote:
> >http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bpl/domesticnotes.htm
> >for many links to samples of his clavichord playing.
>
> ...with engineering by professor John Hill.  We "met" here in f_minor and
> then met in person when he rolled in with his equipment vehicle last
> summer.  John got a taste of the "Quiet in the Land" (rural Mennonite)
> milieu here for a few days.

Great fun and (IMHO) some nice recordings too!

Anybody affiliated with a label here on the List???

I have a feeling that GG would have appoved of this way of working.
Our methodology pretty closely resembled the kind of set-up GG
derived in the 70s, when he made the Eaton Center his home base
for recording.

> Breaks during sessions were spent listening to GG recordings and other
> items of interest.  In honor of GG we consumed vast quantities of Starbucks
> Javachip ice cream, the modern recreational equivalent of the
> "double-double"* coffees from his recording sessions.  Arrowroots were of
> course on hand, but Arizona plum tea substituted for the Poland water.  For
> added authenticity, we ingested a Gouldian high-cholesterol meal at an
> authentic 1950's diner.

Kline's ice cream bar provided additional high fat/high cholesteral incentive
(chocolate, vanilla & flavor of the week).

Loved some of the vintage vinyl.

> No Mahler was sung to the cows, but clavichord was played to the cats.

Don't forget the *leaf-hoppers* (surely the correct taxonomical name)...

Hey, I haven't forgotten about the CPE Bach DAT (well, I *have* actually
several times but....)

cheers,
jh