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Re: Landowska
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Bernard Gregoire <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 19 Oct 1999 01:00:14 EDT
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Derek Lim wrote...

>In particular some parts sound organ-like, others just clangy, and still
>others sound like coarse lutes.

Unfortunatly the recording technology used for Landowska was poor to
excerable.  She did not live long enough to get even better analog tape
recording of the later 50's and 60s.  On the other hand harpsichords sound
very clangy as a natural characteristic.

Bernard Gregoire
Hingham, MA

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