500 Series vs. Statement?

Hmm my employer has an office on Times Square but business travel is restricted these days. If your statement gets there post COVID, there are options to help with the work!

I have absolutely no idea. But it has more than 30 years. When you will receive your Statements, you could celebrate them with that.

Actually I carried one, nearly by myself, through the staircase :sweat_smile:.
My father-in-law’s :

EDIT : in two pieces, of course. The base and the harpsichord itself.

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I suspect this Covid thing will be with us until the end of summer. The Statements had better be here long before that. But I think a post Covid party would make quite a Statement and you are all invited!

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That is a beautiful harpsichord.

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Lovely. Is it a proper one? Sometimes these harpsichords are terrible and sometimes fantastic.

I took my lessons back in the day on a beautiful instrument and it brought back Baroque to live on the first pressed key. French suites from Bach, Sweelinck and Rameau are my favourites.

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And sounds amazing too!

Interestingly, this is probably the instrument that my system reproduces the more realistically. On one recording at least.

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Try Ton Koopmans recording of the chromatic fantasy bwv 903. That is the absolute top of harpsichord music and recording.

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What a cultured crew. I don’t know anyone who plays the harpsichord.

Of course it is :grin:

Made by Bartolomeo Formentelli. It’s a copy of the Christian Zell from Hamburg.

I don’t play the harpsichord. But did play classical guitar, and some jazz for several years. Even played some viola da gamba when I was a youngster.

But this is all long gone. I now have climber’s hands. Not even sure I could play “Greensleeves” on the guitar :sweat_smile:

But bench press a lot :rofl:

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I’ll download it.

The following isn’t bad either. The K 208, sounds so real on my system!
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I have the Bach BWV 903 as part of the Complete Bach set, but it’s played by Gustav Leonhardt, not Koopman.

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Thanks. Quickly googled the builder and it looks like an respected organ builder which generally is a good thing. Those are the nerds!

I’ll do some more reading later.

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:slight_smile: Leonhardt! He was one of the great. I like his Buxtehude.

Speak of the devil, we here in Paradise Valley have just experience a snap in the weather that has produced some of that frozen precipitation I sought to escape when I moved here. Lucky for us it’s infrequent and short lived.

Wow! You’re actually getting snow right now in Arizona. That’s crazy. From where did you move?

Well to be fair, it’s mostly sleet here at the house (PV) but the surrounding peaks have some snow, even Camelback Mountain. In my 16 years here we’ve had snow in the valley once or twice. I moved here from Chicago, midwest weather is not for me.

I was in Chicago for AXPONA in mid April of 2019. We ended up having to stay an extra night because there was a bi snow storm and the airports were shut down…in the middle of APRIL! Of course, with nothing to do for a day, a bunch of us just hung out in the bar and talked audio stuff. It was awful!

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Drinking and listening to music is what got me through those winters. Awful indeed!

LOL…I spend a bit of time that way whether there is weather, or not.

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