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To: JF Quinnelly who wrote (14119)	10/29/1998 11:01:00 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Ammo was reading your post over my shoulder just now when he came in to say goodnight. As he climbed the stairs I could hear him singing, Bang Bach, Bang Bach, Oh Bang Bach my Bonny for me, for me...

To: JF Quinnelly who wrote (14119)	10/30/1998 1:00:00 AM
From: Gauguin	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 71178

I suspected bang, bang, bang Bach on the piano was going to gill something. I could feel, feel, feel it as I deviantly pounded the keys. I'm really starting to like that Ammo. Actually I guess Frank's father was proficient with Bach and Frank duly imprinted. Good old Ken Burns is doing Frank on PBS this month. I think Wright is due for a resurgence of icon status in America. I'm not saying he wasn't a pig, either. But he may be in some ways the world's most important architect. And he's Ours. I was impressed by an article in Scientific American, with Martin Gardener, showing a Bach piece which played the same forward, backwards, and either way upside down. Gee, I thought. That's complicated. Bach really is a brainiac. I couldn't do that. Then, I thought, "Eh. So what?" Ahhhhhh. Also, the surface of a harpsichord might not have left enough room for Alex's "big swing". Thought for sure we'd hear from him immediately.

To: JF Quinnelly who wrote (14119)	10/30/1998 6:14:00 AM
From: Ish	Respond to of 71178

<<Not to mention that Bach, being Baroque,>> Why was Bach Baroque? Didn't he have any Monet?

To: JF Quinnelly who wrote (14119)	10/30/1998 12:19:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

Freddie. Duude. You forget the physics of music. You CAN bang Bach on the piano (if you get him good&drunk - Ish can provide instructions). But a harpsichord is sort of a reverse piano. It uses these leather thingies like cat's tongues (and nooo they did NOT use 88 cats per 'chord, folks - relax)to pluck or twoing at teh strings. Soooo - you could pluck Johann on the harpsichord - with as much precision and delicacy as you care to muster. It occurs to me that JSB wrote a great deal of music for the King's Instrument. So banging Bach on the piano must take a distant backhk seat to blowing Bach on the organ.