> >>>> 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

Salve Andrea!

[These recordings are very interesting. Against so many things well done in
the articulation and phrasing and tempo, yet I do not feel comfortable with
added ornaments that are not mere diminutions but go straight against the
main written notes. Also, there are some rubatos where he suddenly does a
rallentando, waits, then restarts again in unexpected places...]

Back to our topic, I would certainly use the buff in the Goldbergs, but not
in this one, though admittedly it is a question of taste. What I find
objectionable is to play a piece with so many chords, all buffed with no
arpeggiato at all! The buff was always meant to imitate the lute, thus one
has to play at least a few arpeggios in the important chords.

> 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

Thanks for such a good example Andrea!
Very percussive indeed: I am glad to find that other instruments produce the
same "fortepiano" effect as mine. (And no, I would certainly not use this
registration in Bach, even less so in Variation 9 which as a result sounds
too choppy for my taste).

A presto,

Claudio

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