{"id":6484,"date":"2021-09-14T19:13:05","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T09:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=6484"},"modified":"2021-09-14T19:20:52","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T09:20:52","slug":"hough-and-schnabel-on-piano-rolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=6484","title":{"rendered":"Hough and Schnabel on piano rolls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I want to believe in piano rolls.  The idea that we can insert an object into a present-day piano and hear long-dead pianists and composers perform again as if they were in the same room is a tantalisingly attractive prospect.  It has a magical aura about it.  But,  I&#8217;m afraid, it&#8217;s a conjuring trick, or \u2013 forgive me \u2013  a confidence trick.<br><br>There&#8217;s a lovely anecdote of Schnabel being approached by one of the major roll-making executives.  <br><br>&#8220;This new model is state of the art!  We have developed a system that allows you to capture fully <em>sixteen <\/em>different types of nuances and shadings!&#8221;<br><br>Schnabel, with his famously dry writ, replied, &#8220;My dear boy, I&#8217;m afraid that will be a problem.  You see, my playing has seventeen.&#8221;  <br><br>\u2014 Stephen Hough <\/p><cite>S. Hough, <em>Rough Ideas: Reflections on Music and More<\/em>, London, Faber &amp; Faber, 2019, pp. 39-40.<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want to believe in piano rolls. The idea that we can insert an object into a present-day piano and hear long-dead pianists and composers perform again as if they were in the same room is a tantalisingly attractive prospect. It has a magical aura about it. But, I&#8217;m afraid, it&#8217;s a conjuring trick, or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,40],"tags":[1572,1573,710,1509],"class_list":["post-6484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-instruments","category-performers-and-performances","tag-piano-roll","tag-pianola","tag-schnabel","tag-stephen-hough"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6484"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6488,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6484\/revisions\/6488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}