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This is a version of the Camille Saint Saen’s piece arranged for piano and cello by Suzuki.

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The Swan for Cello and Piano

This is a version of Bach’s first movement from the Well Tempered Clavier, the Praeludium. I absolutely love the version of this on the piano by Sviatoslav Richter, where he plays it so softly and perfectly.

This version uses finger piano samples, taken from an instrument I built back in 1978 or so. I’ve been using the samples for almost 10 years for all kinds of music. I carefully filed down a dob of solder that I applied to the tips of the spring steel blades so that the overtone is exactly two octaves higher than the fundamental. Without the solder, the overtone is enharmonic. I accidentally discovered that I could tune the overtone when I added solder just to get the pitch lower in a smaller space. The fact that I could tune it was a bonus I would have never known was possible. It was only by fiddling around with a small steel file and a soldering iron for untold hours in the basement room B-160 in Mandeville Center at U.C.S.D. that I made the discovery.

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wtc #5

Here is another version with some slides showcasing Prent’s Microtonal Slide Bosendorfers ability to bend notes, even across multiple octaves.

The tuning is Just Intonation for each measure, but it changes from measure to measure, so the are many comma-sized changes from one measure to the next, where a note from one measure changes by a comma in the next.

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Dox #5

This is the Theme and Variations movement of the Mozart Sonata #6 redone using Carl Lumma’s well temperament in D:

This is the 3rd movement of Mozart’s Sonata #6 K 284, Theme and 12 variations. It is a marvel of composition.

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Theme and Variations #15

Here is the piano accompaniment to Gabriel’s Oboe.

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Gabriel’s Oboe Piano Alone #4

Here is the cello with piano accompaniment to Gabriel’s Oboe.

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Gabriel’s Oboe Cello & Piano #3

Here is the piano accompaniment to Bach’s March in G from Suzuki.

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Kortte #6

This is the Theme and Variations movement of the Mozart Sonata #6 redone using Thomas Young’s well temperament of 1799, as described by Kyle Gann here..

This is the 3rd movement of Mozart’s Sonata #6 K 284, Theme and 12 variations. It is a marvel of composition.

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Theme and Variations #14

This is the Allegro movement of the Mozart Sonata #6 redone using Thomas Young’s well temperament of 1799, as described by Kyle Gann here..

This is the 1st movement of Mozart’s Sonata #6 K 284, Allegro. It’s scored in the key of A major, unlike the D major in the other movements.

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Allegro Youngs Well Temperament #2

Here it is redone using Carl Lumma’s VRWT temperament, transposed to A:

Lovely temperament. It’s almost amazing how much better it sounds with tuning that the composer would have found attractive.

This is the 2nd movement of Mozart’s Sonata #6 K 284, Rondeau. It’s scored in the key of A major, unlike the D major in the other movements.

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Rondeau Carl Lumma VRWT #3