Jonathan Ellis wrote: >I was NOT implying that only a HIP version was correct (and >if Patrik had read to the end of my posting he would have seen my >recommendation for Hussong's remarkable version of the Goldberg on >accordion - is that HIP?), but rather making a technical observation that >Bach wrote the Goldberg's for two keyboards: the counterpoint is such >that it is very difficult to play the work on one keyboard without making >concessions. Aside from the undisputed fact that a harpsichord has a sound completely different from that of a piano, what exactly is the distinction between a two-keyboard and a one-keyboard instrument when both are played by a person w/ only two hands? I know that harpsichord keyboards are usually, if not always, shorter than piano keyboards. Is the second harpsichord keyboard there to make up for the reduced range of each shorter keyboard? If not and there is range overlap w/ some sort of difference in tone, are the Variations written w/ a view to producing unisons of the same note sounding in such different tones? If the two keyboards have separate ranges, are some passages played simultaneously at either end of the low-to-high scale as well as in the middle, which a pianist would only be able to play w/out making concessions if he used his nose (as I understand the child Mozart did w/ one of his compositions)? Walter Meyer