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...France's famed Pianist-Teacher Marguerite Long, Monique is negotiating with piano manufacturers. Despite engineering problems, she hopes to have a working model by the end of this year. To traditionalists who balk at her spaceage innovations, she explains: "The evolution of these instruments has been steady. The clavichord said all it could. Then came the pianoforte, and eventually it said all it could. The time has come to give the piano a new franchise, a new life. A golden era is opening for the piano, if only the piano is ready...
BACH: THE WELL-TEMPERED CLAVIER, PART 1 (2 LPs; Archiv). "Clavier" means keyboard, and no one knows whether these preludes and fugues were written for harpsichord, organ or clavichord. Ralph Kirkpatrick is recording them on the clavichord, preferring its subtlety. Infinitely varied within their small compass, like snowflakes, the pieces have a severe fascination when played on the soft, monochromatic instrument. The late Wanda Landowska chose the harpsichord as her clavier, and her performances (RCA Victor) will be preferred by listeners who demand greater contrast and majesty...
Some standout scholars: > Jill Ramsey of Briarcliff Manor, N.Y., scored two perfect 800s and a 795 on her college boards, may major in anthropology or Spanish at Stanford. Last year as a summer project, she helped to build a clavichord...
...results could make a cardiac case out of a cuttlefish. In Rock du Coeur, the heart thuds (behind an electric guitar, a clavichord and drums) like a bass fiddle muffled in cotton wool. In Cha-Cha du Coeur, the heart sounds louder, its labors interrupted now and then by whispered "cha cha chas." The effect on the listener, noted France-Soir, was to create "a kind of obsession, almost anxiety." But Paris cats were buying the record briskly last week, and other record makers are sure to approach Model Guillenette with stethoscopes in hand; nobody, she said...
Jazzman Camp wields his gallused, honky-tonk style on an Emory Cook record called The New Clavichord. The old-fashioned clavichord has a gentle tinkle, but partly through the recording technique, Camp gives such numbers as Wing and a Prayer and Cocktails for Two an ice-edged, splintered sound full of white fire and ghostly glimmer. In Slow Slow Blues he etches some wonderfully spidery lines. The sound is not for everybody, but Camp is convinced: "It brings out the contrapuntal lines. It lends itself to blues beautifully...