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One of the real joys of the digital age in music is finding new instruments to play and to enjoy. About a year or so ago, I purchased a volume of instruments from the Vienna Library, not a inexpensive expenditure. It has taken me this long to finally crack the box open and try to wend my way through their strange architecture so that I could "make music." Well, I am definitely NOT there yet, but I did find the most-amazing Bosendorfer Grand Piano and couldn't keep my hands off of it. I am not sure if it will ever become my "piano du jour," but for yesterday, it was. I improvised the piece you hear here to sort of show off the range of this marvelous digital piano, and so the composition itself is a bit of a patchwork, created in one take with no edits. But what you will hear is really TWO etudes, played about 1/2 hour apart. I liked the SOUND of both of them and they seemed to naturally glue together when I was mixing this final version. So, I hope you enjoy the four-and-a-half minutes or so of my new piano. (And to think it would cost me upwards of $150,000 were I to actually own the acoustic version! Amazing.) The graphic is a painting by JEAN COCTEAU (1889-1963).
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Reinholt56
These are two of my favourite Etudes here on Macjams. The Bosendorfer sounds really well in the second study, the first seemed as though you were feeling the depth of the water, so it seemed more introspective.
Take care.
Paul