Polyphony

"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura) 05/11/2020 at 10:47 • Filed to: None

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ttyymmnn > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 05/11/2020 at 10:51

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Gloriously out of tune, jangly upright piano. Aaron Copland’s Billy The Kid ballet specifically calls for an out-of-tune piano for a heightened sense of realism.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > ttyymmnn 05/11/2020 at 10:52

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Someone buy those men a beer!

WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 05/11/2020 at 11:11

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MoCamino > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 05/11/2020 at 11:15

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Either one of their performances would have been pretty impressive separately.  But simultaneously, on the same piano??!?!?  Incredible.  

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI 05/11/2020 at 11:18

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 I am having some difficulty determining what it is that I just watched.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > MoCamino 05/11/2020 at 11:19

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 I'm pretty sure that they should not have to pay for their beer for the rest of the evening, one or two performances like that...

WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 05/11/2020 at 11:26

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But it sounded cool.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI 05/11/2020 at 11:31

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 I wasn't sure what I heard, either...

WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 05/11/2020 at 11:36

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Their earlier stuff was a little more straight prog rock/metal

AestheticsInMotion > WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI 05/11/2020 at 11:41

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I love polyphia 

TheRealBicycleBuck > ttyymmnn 05/11/2020 at 11:48

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My grandmother had an upright piano, but she never played it like that! The only time I saw her play it was at Christmas when we would all gather around and sing carols while she played. We inherited that piano, but it was lost when our house burned down. My mom kept the sound board as a yard ornament. I honestly don’t know what she thought she would do with it. I ended up scrapping it when we cleared out her house.

ttyymmnn > TheRealBicycleBuck 05/11/2020 at 12:16

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The sound board or the harp? The sound board is the wooden piece below the strings that resonates with sound, the harp is the metal frame that the strings are strung on. Interestingly, the harp was originally  made of wood, and one of the significant breakthroughs in piano design came in the 1800s when somebody made the first harp out of cast iron. It meant that the strings could be strung at much higher tensions for a more powerful sound. In college, a student wrote an essay about the cast iron piano. That would have been a thing to see. Probably pretty heavy, too.

TheRealBicycleBuck > ttyymmnn 05/11/2020 at 12:33

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Ah, clearly the harp. Gigantic hunk of cast iron that survived a house burning to the ground around it. I have no idea how my mom managed to move it from the burn site. I don’t remember helping anyone do it. I do remember moving the whole piano into the house. It took three big guys. I’ve moved our smaller console piano a couple of times, I do well to lift one end. I’ve learned to b e thankful for rolling dollies.

ttyymmnn > TheRealBicycleBuck 05/11/2020 at 12:48

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I helped move an upright piano up a flight of narrow stairs once. Never again. It was hell, and gave me a new appreciation for the guys who do it professionally.