I heard a program by Mr. Brauchli in Boston back in the 1970s. He has devoted his life to the study of the clavichord. It is such a pleasure to hear him play, particularly the 16th century Spanish repertoire.
His hairdress is poetry compared to the failed funniness of you soulless comment. Your remark could be sort of funny when you would have the politeness to make a remark about his great skill in playing the clavichord first.. But no, you just bluntly make a deplorable joke and that's all. I call that soulless.
Well I brought laughter to at least one individual with my comment. If that's soulless then I'm afraid that's where I stand. However, one must question what lies inside a person who would go into youtube comments and call a stranger, another human being, a piece of shit. I've thought a lot about your comment and it has brought me more entertainment than my original joke. Und für das ich danke dir.
Bellissimo maestro Brauchli... Ricordo la prima volta che ho sentito dal vivo e suonato un clavicordo, ad un corso di Christopher Stembridge..ormai un secolo fa, negli anni '90. La preziosità, l' intimità e la cantabilita' dei suoni... ✨✨😊
Whenever I feel down-hearted I listen to the clavichord or to the setar (Persian longnecked lute). Excellent performance of Antonio de Cabezon. Vielen dank Bernard Brauchli!
Yes, these instruments are typically tuned to a scale. If you play notes not in the scale, it sounds out of tune to us. Equal temperament that is used today is actually a fairly novel thing.
gosh i wish i had thick luxurious hair like that...what? its a comb-over?...get out!... the best part is his caricature has the comb-over at 3:43 on the album cover
+phil tripe Get a life. Try to love a woman (or a man if you prefer) or good music or whatever, instead of hating yourself and bothering others with your selfhate. And if you don't then I am inclined to say: Het ware beter geweest dat phil tripe nooit geboren was.
Say something positive to the man. Teach him, if that's what you're attempting to do here. And teach US. You're interjection is not enough. Give us more.
Can we talk about the elephant in the room? WHO painted that nice chlavicord those ridiculous colors? What a disgrace! :( Oh....yeah...and...combover...that too...
PainterInYou ....I agree the colors may seem a bit garish. Also I have only seen, in pictures, maybe 10 to 15 dozen historic clavichords, very few being brightly painted. That said, I feel your comment is somewhat prejudice based on modern aesthetic tastes. I think the world was a lot more garishly colored in centuries past than most of us tend to think.
Oh, yes, the colors are pretty awful. BUT the instrument (at least under Mr. Brauchli's expert fingers) sounds pretty darn good to me. I believe it was on this instrument that I heard him play a concert in Boston several decades ago, and liked it then already. Bernard is a professional clavichordist and I would expect him to draw the best sound from any such instrument, however. He is also that rare thing nowadays, a true gentleman, and I think it rude and, moreover quite irrelevant, to make snide remarks about his hair style. He is an artist not a mannequin.
No it's not. A Harpsichord is much more massive. This is a fretted keyboard, where a harpsichord is not. The sound is more powerful and can be played with an orchestra where a clavichord cannot.
Is it a typical feature of these instruments to have their temperament so different that they sound out of tune to our ears, or is this simply out of tune?
It doesn't sound out of tune to me at all. When you keep listening to period tunings on period instruments the ear then begins to hear more in them and actually prefer them! ( For music of that period rather than that music being played on equal temperament).
