Oh no, I've got a lot of Niagara Peninsula content, about harpsichords.
However, reading about it above, now explains that even when I played one,
it just seemed tinkly, you're right, it's just a note that goes nowhere.
But, that's just me playing a historic instrument when I was there.
What harpsichords mean for me is the first option for electric pianos,
and who wanted a harpsichord sound for rock bands onstage?
So that's the harpsichord I heard for demonstrations and fooling around,
a bad, pre-digital sample, that I now see as being as unresponsive as the real thing.
Korg, with little two octave keyboard synths that had a couple of sounds,
had a really nice organ sound, with a few stops like a Hammond organ.
They were the popular synths back then.
No harpsichords, or ancestral Japanese stringed instruments there.
Harpsichords have a chiming, ringing sound.
If you used a heavy phase shifter and deepened the tone,
the shimmering phase sound would come out,
maybe sounding like the tones of electric guitars in corporate rock bands like Asia,
and Duran Duran.
That could also make a wash of sound, sustaining the sound, nice.
I also heard, over here, over-hearing,
that the as-yet-untitled Frederik Magle bought a joker's outfit,
like the one Orville Gibson wore, when he played left-handed with bass on the bottom,
like me,
and he's going to do a harpsichord thing where he dances on it,
and strums the strings. I feel a USB port coming on.
