>>>> Claudio Di Veroli wrote:
>>>> In some instruments ... the combination 8+buffed8 sound very much
>>>> like a fortepiano.

>> I have posted a brief audio file at www.fugato.com/pickett/buff.html
>> that might be of interest.  Claudio's comment struck me as very pertinent.
>> David
> 
> Thanks David.
> Mind however that I meant coupling the keyboards, using simultaneously the
> buffed 8' coupled with the unbuffed one. Nobody does that usually.
> No evidence that the ancient would do it.
> One would expect to hear a "slightly buffed 8'".
> Yet the effect is completely different and very percussive.
> 
> Claudio
>

Here a example of a buffed upper 8 of a Zell 1728 copy in Bach Goldberg
Variatio 4 played by Ottavio Dantone :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFrFOYBSOP0

Also a sample of buffed upper 8 + lower 8 on the same instrument in Bach
Goldberg Variatio 9, again played by Dantone :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfGK6E31m_4&feature=related

Ciao
Andrea Restelli

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