Haydn: O Let Me in This Ae Night, Hob. XXXIa:61

 

This is a Scottish folk song that Haydn wrote an arrangement for.  I used the Pianet N sound for the keyboard part and the brighter of Nord's two Hohner String Melody II samples for the violin part.

Notation from IMSLP

Haydn: Divertimento in C major, Hob. XIV:3: II. Menuetto and Trio

 

This is written for clavier, two violins, and cello.  I played the clavier part with the Hohner Pianet N sound and all of the string parts with the mellower of Nord's two Hohner String Melody II samples.  I changed the dynamics in the Pianet part just by how hard I hit the keys (although the instrument doesn't have a large dynamic range), but for the strings, I used a volume pedal.

I shot video of the Pianet part but not the string parts.  They would have made editing the video more difficult, and I thought they wouldn't be very interesting to watch anyway.

Notation from IMSLP

Telemann: 168 Keyboard Pieces, TWV 36:64: Menuet: Die Blumen deiner schönen Wangen

 

Earlier this month, I was reviewing what pieces I'd done from Telemann's 168 Keyboard Pieces, TWV 36, and I discovered that I'd misunderstood something in the notation of No. 64, which resulted in my unknowingly playing a wrong note.  I'd thought that one note was a D flat because it looks like a D flat, but I know now from having gone through a number of movements from Telemann's ouvertures that he uses a flat sign to cancel out a sharp, so - if my understanding is correct - the flat sign in front of this particular D indicates that it should be played not as a D sharp, like the note in the previous measure, but as a D natural instead.  Since accidentals are reset in every measure in modern notation, it's really a superfluous marking.

Anyway, I felt I had to re-do the piece and play the correct note.

Here's my revised, modernized notation:

Chicago Live at Tanglewood (Lenox, MA), 21 July 1970

A number of years ago, I watched this concert by Chicago and noticed that Robert Lamm plays a Pianet N.  Earlier this week, it was the fifty-fourth anniversary of the concert, and I watched it again so I could post it here.

Below is the set list from the video description (although it fails to identify the first song).  Lamm plays Pianet in every song but "I'm a Man," which is the encore.

• [unidentified song]
• "In the Country"
• "Free Form Piano"
• "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?"
• "25 or 6 to 4"
• "Poem for the People"
• "I Don't Want Your Money"
• "Mother"
• "It Better End Soon"
• "Beginnings"
• "Make Me Smile" / "So Much To Say, So Much To Give"
• "Colour My World" / "Make Me Smile"
• "I'm a Man"

Fleetwood Mac's "Station Man"

Recently, the Reelin' in the Years Archive uploaded a video of Fleetwood Mac performing "Station Man" in 1975 to its YouTube channel:

I hadn't heard any version of this song before, but I noticed that in this live performance at least, Christine McVie plays Hohner Pianet throughout.  I'm pretty sure it's a model N.

Bass 3

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Pianet N

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Telemann: 168 Keyboard Pieces, TWV 36:106: Menuet

 

I played what's written as an F# in Telemann's notation as an E (in my modernized notation, it's the first note in the right hand in the fourth measure of the sixth line).  I think the F# is a mistake.  If it's an E, there's a sort of parallelism between the phrases in the sixth line (A D D D F# E F# | B E E E G F# G).

This is the last tune I plan on doing from the 168 Keyboard Pieces.  I'm skipping quite a lot of pieces near the end, but they're just beyond my skill level.  I'm also going to take a break from doing Pianet videos.  I don't know when or if I'll do any more.

I also played this on Hammond organ, although I recorded it just on my phone.

Telemann: 168 Keyboard Pieces, TWV 36:97: Menuet

 

Telemann: 168 Keyboard Pieces, TWV 36:91: Menuet

 

"O Christmas Tree"

 

I got this from James Bastien's Great Christmas Carols Arranged for Organ, but I didn't play it exactly like it appears in the book.  I played a regular E major instead of an E major 7.