Re: hanging with the Art of Fugue (was "portrait in Great Pianists")

[Bradley Lehman <bpl@umich.edu>]

At 11:26 PM 9/18/2000 -0400, mikejf2@JUNO.COM wrote:
Regarding the one unplayable note in CP 13 didn't keyboardist
> in the Baroque era often resort to keyboard 'tricks' like putting a
> wedge to hold a key, play a note with your nose, etc...?  Would it
> be possible to do something like that in this peice at that one
> spot in the music?

Yes; it just depends what you want to aim at the middle C#.  A (blunt!)
stick or pen in the mouth has a decent chance of success, if the audience
doesn't laugh.  Or if "nobody will know," take the C# up an octave with the
right thumb.

I think on Moroney's recording he "punched that note in" with an overdub.


Bradley Lehman
Dayton VA
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bpl