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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JF Quinnelly who wrote (14160)	10/30/1998 10:44:00 PM
From: Gauguin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

JF, a favorite "song" (tune?) of my youth has a harpsichord in it, and I'm always attracted to the sound; like....oh....Stumpy to food. I was kind of, oooooooh, "enchanted" the first time I heard a harpsichord. (I know they become tiring after listening a while. So do I.) Anyway; you've played one? I see you at the Huntington, tails flipped, beginning without hesitation in one of the smaller upstairs balcony rooms. No menu, just whatever you think we listeners can "get" before the beer gets to us. They won't normally serve beer on the parquet floors, yet this is the Rambi Club. I'm trying to get the lid open to see how the whole thing works, and Alex is polishing it. You're not very happy with us; nor even Penni, who has decided she knows this tune and begins to sing. Strings that are plucked. Harp strings. If ~ wait ~ lemme see if I remember ~ the harpsichord was the major instrument of "it's category" for 150+ years, has a bigbunch of music written for it, evolved enormously yet not basically, is difficult to construct (more so than the piano), is fascinating and attracts intimate students but hey lotsa stuff does and everyone thinks anyone with an interest is a weirdo, especially the harpsichord, the word harpsichord basically requires an awful lot of movement for a hunt and pecker typist, and the rise of the piano constricted it. Um, do they have the same keybd as a piano; and you never tole us you play music. There. Oh, and tell us about it.