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.
Hohner Pianet
Celebrating the German-made electric piano from the 1960s (and other Hohner keyboards)
Wednesday, August 14, 2024
Wednesday, August 7, 2024
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.
Labels:
Haydn,
Pianet N sample,
recordings,
String Melody II sample
Wednesday, July 31, 2024
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:
Saturday, July 27, 2024
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"
Saturday, June 15, 2024
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.
Labels:
1975,
Fleetwood Mac,
Pianet,
Pianet N,
Station Man,
videos
Saturday, May 25, 2024
Saturday, March 16, 2024
Saturday, February 10, 2024
Wednesday, February 7, 2024
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.
Wednesday, January 17, 2024
Wednesday, January 3, 2024
Wednesday, December 20, 2023
"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.
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