Comments on: The Goldberg Variations, Right Up Close and Personal http://classicalconvert.com/2008/04/the-goldberg-variations-right-up-close-and-personal/ A beginners guide to classical music, by someone who switched at 23 Mon, 21 May 2012 05:15:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Miss Mussel http://classicalconvert.com/2008/04/the-goldberg-variations-right-up-close-and-personal/comment-page-1/#comment-3284 Miss Mussel Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:38:18 +0000 http://classicalconvert.com/2008/04/the-goldberg-variations-right-up-close-and-personal/#comment-3284 Re: the 1 Clav/2 Clav situation. Another angle is that there is a switch inside the harpsichord that allows the player to have both manuals striking at once even if they are just playing on the bottom one. This was the only way they could regulate volume aside from just playing more notes at once. So 1 Clav might be just one keyboard at once, while 2 Clav would be both plucking the strings at the same time. This takes a little bit of effort, so can't be done on the fly like the organ. The changes is usually marked at the beginning of a new section. Or so I think. There's a significant chance that I'm just talking out my ass here. Re: the 1 Clav/2 Clav situation. Another angle is that there is a switch inside the harpsichord that allows the player to have both manuals striking at once even if they are just playing on the bottom one. This was the only way they could regulate volume aside from just playing more notes at once.

So 1 Clav might be just one keyboard at once, while 2 Clav would be both plucking the strings at the same time. This takes a little bit of effort, so can’t be done on the fly like the organ. The changes is usually marked at the beginning of a new section. Or so I think. There’s a significant chance that I’m just talking out my ass here.

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