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Old 10-10-2013, 08:42 PM
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Thanks all for listening and thanks very much for your comments! I'm glad you enjoyed it, and good to hear there are some pianists here on the forums
I've attached a couple of photos to the original post.

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Lovely, Rolf. Both the instrument and the interpretation. It's the only piece in G flat major I know. And an impressive performance from memory. I played the impromptus myself, years ago.
Thanks Jonathan, yes G-Flat major is certainly not a common key! I believe there is a G major edition as well, but... that's cheating
Did you play all the Schubert Impromptus? I'm practising Op 90 No 4 now, what a masterpiece.
I love playing Chopin too, my all time favourite composer. Here are a couple I recorded on my old acoustic upright:

And for something completely different, there's nothing quite like a Ragtime:


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Has it ever occurred to you that capturing and reproducing the musical structures of a mind that had been dead for centuries is not completely dissimilar to capturing and rendering photons from objects hundreds of light-years away?
Yes it's really quite fascinating!
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