Thursday 29 October 2009

After taking some books back to the library in Edinburgh this morning, I had two different music technology tasks to accomplish. The first was trying out the 1793 Broadwood piano from the Mirrey Collection in St Cecilia's Hall for next week's concert. It's very bright, and like all British pianos of the time requires some serious taming: I will have to do some practice in the next week.  Here it is accompanied by the human blur that is John Raymond, and the 1793 Broadwood harpsichord (on its left) that I played on Mungrel Stuff.

There was just time to get distracted playing the famous green Taskin (now revoiced in crow quill and sounding ever more wonderful) and a very interesting Viennese-style piano actually made in Breslau (or Wrocław if you prefer).

Then to North Berwick to mix some tracks for series 4 of Skins with Calum Malcolm. Well, he mixed them and I mostly lay around on the sofa trying not to say unhelpful things.