C.P.E. Bach, Sonata in D minor, Wq 62/4

Ryan Layne Whitney

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There is no doubt that C.P. E. Bach, the most famous of J. S. Bach's sons favored the clavichord for those of his works on which didn't require a louder instrument.  He said so, explicitly.

An idiot has mocked my posting of music on clavichoard as some kind of elitist practice.  Which is pretty funny in that clavichords are probably the least expensive of keyboard instruments, the keyboard instrument most likely to have been found in many of the more humble homes when a more complex harpsichord would have been too expensive and likely too large.  For instruments of fine quality they are, even today, generally far less expensive than a fine piano or harpsichord.

Update:  The idiot has misspoken.   My guess would be that the clavichord playing Stevie Wonder has more "street cred" in his note bending little finger than Stupy Stales would have if he had any in his entire body.   Not to mention any number of other musicians who have played it.  As I remember the smart mop head recorded at least one piece on it.   Maybe he doesn't know that.

Update:  C.P.E. Bach, Sonata in C, W. 62/10,

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Update:  A clavinet is to a clavichord as a piano is to a forte-piano.  The main difference is the tangent that makes the string sound is not metal and the use of electronic amplification of volume.  It was invented to be a modern clavichord.  It's not an electronic instrument, it's an amplified instrument. It's like an electric guitar.

You know, you can look things like that up.

Update 2:  So, Stupy Stales doesn't know how a Hammond B3 works either.  Amazing he was able to hoodwink his way into a career on the outskirts of one of the minor suburbs of musical journalism for so many years.

You know, there's this thing called a "search engine" that is just amazing for looking up stuff online.  I know you're too lazy to look stuff up in the paper version of Grove's or even the Harvard Dictionary of Music.

Update 3:   Let's see, a clavichord has keys which someone depresses which push  tangents into  strings to make it sound, a clavinet (the original instrument, not the later thing that goes by the same name)  has keys  which someone depresses to push a tangent into  strings to make it sound.  A clavinet is a clavichord with pickups to amplify the sound.  That was what it was originally invented as being by Hohner.   While Wikipedia is so often corrupted I don't generally like to quote it, this is the first sentence in its listing for Clavinet,  The Clavinet is an electrically amplified clavichord that was manufactured by the Hohner company of Trossingen, West Germany from 1964 to the early 1980s.  This is one of the instances in which what it says is entirely accurate.

A pipe organ has pipes which, when you push keys make air pass through the pipes to make it sound, a Hammond B3, when you push the key, has NO PIPES THROUGH WHICH NO AIR IS PASSED THROUGH TO MAKE IT SOUND but the quite distinctively different sound is produced in an entirely different way with an entirely different character.

I would love to see what your score on the Miller Analogies would have been.

Update 4:  You know, having experienced the puerile tactics of Stupy Stales I've come to identify a method of how the little mind tries to wriggle out of things, he pretends, contrary to his entire line of argument, that when he has to face that he's lost he pretends that the very refutation of his line of bilge was his, not mine.   It's something you might be familiar with from the kind of arguments people had in 7th grade.  People of average intelligence, maybe lingering into the 10th grade.