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In Reply to: Oops! - My Mistake posted by Chris from Lafayette on March 2, 2010 at 15:28:26:
PAINTING: Design for a Satie Museum
Chris from Lafayette,
I'd never heard of Chopin's using a cross-legged playing position. It's interesting to imagine this as it would seem to impeded use of the pedals. I forgotten- didn't Chopin mark the pedaling for sustain and una corda ***?
***-I don't care for the modern version of una corda -it just sounds like muffled and duller version of the piano. On Mozart period pianos, with the short sustain, it really has this great harp-like quality.
The jacket cover drawing has that ring of a period drawing- was it done from life? Drawing for or from a painting?
It appears to me Chopin has his right leg extended to operate the sustain. while the left leg must be slightly tilted so his left shoe is close to being directly behind his right. I could see how he could hook his left leg further back behind his right. Almost as though they are crossed at the ankles- but the ankles are separated. If you do this, - try it- it helps you keep your back straight, you have a good fore and aft leverage- it seems you don't have to use back muscles to keep you from rocking back and forth, and that means better application of shoulder weight. Plus, you still have the right foot out for all those long sustain pedalings. When I play piano, I do this to some degree- sit relatively high to the keyboard with the left leg well back under the bench.
And those 12' Fabdazzlioni pianos have 4 pedals! That's nothing! I studied harpsichord on a large Dowd double-manual in a church- a French Taskin in a Kirckman English case- and with 7 pedals. It was complicated: 2X8', 1X4', lute, the back 8' had a set of peau debuffle (leather plectra) jacks, and then there was a pedal for the usual French manuals' (shove) coupler, and a machine coupler that instantly switched the registration back and forth- I forget how.
Well, come to think of it, the pipe organ I practice on has 30 pedals. And, legs get crossed there every second!
Cheers,
Bambi B
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- Chopin's cross-legged playing position ? - Bambi B 03/2/1016:16:18 03/2/10 (1)
- RE: Chopin's cross-legged playing position ? - Chris from Lafayette 16:49:04 03/2/10 (0)
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