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coffeesp00ns  ·  2529 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Listening To Blade Runner

    Taking one on tour was like taking a harpsichord on tour

I had a visceral, cringing reaction to this. Ugghhhhh. Worse than Harps!

It blows my mind that people like Mozart needed to bring their own keyboard places for performances - gotta hire a few dudes, have them negotiate it down some stairwells and carry it out through an Austrian winter evening so you can go play at some rich schmuck's party.

On the plus side at least the legs were a separate feature and you could just follow behind the harpsichord dudes, carrying your fold-up fortepiano legs. And your music. And also probably everyone elses' music because you just finished writing the piece.