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	<title>RB Piano Forte Chronicles</title>
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	<description>Adventures of an Itinerant, Aging, Would-Be Keyboardist</description>
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		<title>Recovering &#8211; Harpsichord vs. Piano</title>
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WELL, THE PLAGUE APPEARS to be abating &#8211; I&#8217;m feeling more or less human, again.  Still have a residual cough, but I&#8217;m not knocked down, and I&#8217;m not constantly interrupted by hacking fits at the keyboard.
Harpsichord vs Piano

I started out playing the Bach Inventions and the Scarlatti K380 with the keyboard set to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://piano-forte.scribi.com/2010/03/07/recovering-harpsichord-vs-piano/</link>
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		<title>Still Sick &#8211; Thoughts on Trills</title>
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THIS UPPER-RESPIRATORY GOOMBAH has knocked me down for three days, with no end in sight.  It tends to leave me pretty exhausted.

I&#8217;m still practicing, but one night I carried it too far and finally went to bed amid an explosion of hacking, coughing fits.

Perhaps I shouldn&#8217;t do that, until I get better.

Something that I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://piano-forte.scribi.com/2010/03/03/still-sick-on-trills/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Runaround Jazz&#8221; &#8211; Musings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I'm still woozed out with anti-cold/flu drugs.  Listening to some improvisational piano, trapset, bass playing on NPR gives pause for reflection about the genre.  And why I hate it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://piano-forte.scribi.com/2010/02/27/runaround-jazz-musings/</link>
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		<title>Down with the Goombah</title>
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SOME RESPIRATORY SOMETHING or other has nailed me, and knocked me down for a few days.

In general, I find myself reclined on the couch with no motivation, energy, or will to ever do anything, again.

But, the keyboard always calls, and I always manage to get in an hour or two of practice, even through my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://piano-forte.scribi.com/2010/02/26/down-with-the-goombah/</link>
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		<title>Back Again &#8211; Into the Breach</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After a nice two week break in the Caribbean, I'm anxious to return to the piano.  Not faring too badly after a two week hiatus, it seems [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://piano-forte.scribi.com/2010/02/23/back-again-into-the-breach/</link>
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		<title>Hiatus&#8230;</title>
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SITTING AT PHOENIX SKY HARBOR AIRPORT at 11:10pm, waiting for a 12:50am flight to Atlanta and then Puerto Rico.  The proverbial &#8216;red-eye&#8217;.

It will, of course, be two weeks of wonderful sun and water (we&#8217;re going to Viecques), but likely no piano.  Which means likely no practice.

So, I&#8217;ll miss that, as things have been [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://piano-forte.scribi.com/2010/02/06/hiatus/</link>
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		<title>Woohoo!!  Progress!!</title>
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I&#8217;M FINALLY TO THE POINT WHERE I have run the Bach Invention #4 (D minor) completely through &#8211; no sticking points.

At least twice, so that&#8217;s real progress.  So, the intense metronome practice has really paid off.

The Scarlatti K380 is coming along nicely, as well &#8211; only one sticking area, and that in the second [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://piano-forte.scribi.com/2010/02/04/woohoo-progress/</link>
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		<title>Metronome, Again &#8211; Invention D minor with a Vengeance</title>
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IN THE PREVIOUS POST I reflected on my dismay that the Bach #8 Invention (F major) seemed to be deteriorating.

Now, last night, I was working on the #4 (D minor), and, to my continued dismay, it seemed to be deteriorating, as well.  A lot of slurring, indistinct notes in the passages.

Time to knuckle down.

The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://piano-forte.scribi.com/2010/02/02/metronome-again-invention-d-minor-with-a-vengeance/</link>
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		<title>Devolution &#8211; I&#8217;m Sore</title>
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SIGH.

I seem to be &#8216;unlearning&#8217; things &#8211; yesterday&#8217;s practice was less than stellar, to be sure, particularly with regards to the Bach Invention #8 (Fmaj), which seems to be getting worse as I play it more, not better.

Part of the issue is I&#8217;m sore: running this thing just strains the hell out my wrists and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://piano-forte.scribi.com/2010/02/01/devolution-im-sore/</link>
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		<title>Double Sharps and Other Strange Creatures</title>
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MUSICAL NOTATION HAS ALWAYS been an area of &#8216;creative inventiveness&#8217; &#8211; sort of like parking in Paris.  Tempo, loudness, crescendos &#8211; all of that has to be indicated, somehow.  Hopefully in universal terms.

(Not always true, though &#8211; tempo markings, for instance, are notoriously unreliable.  My favorite is this one: tempo giusto: at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://piano-forte.scribi.com/2010/01/26/double-sharps-and-other-strange-creatures/</link>
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