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Can you be really good at the organ and piano at the same


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I haven't heard Bruce play piano. He is defintely a good organ player.

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There are plenty of players who excel on both. I don't think there is any foundation for generalizing one way or the other. For that matter, there are keyboard players who are also quite good on some other kind of instrument entirely (violin, guitar, whatever).

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I haven't heard Bruce play piano. He is defintely a good organ player.

 

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Not to mention the original badass, Franz Liszt.

 

I hear there was a guy who predated him, who was reported to be no slouch on both organ and harpsichord. Johann, or something close to that...

 

Bach never technically played the piano, so wouldn't qualify here. I imagine he wouldn't have any problem adapting though.

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Not to mention the original badass, Franz Liszt.

 

I hear there was a guy who predated him, who was reported to be no slouch on both organ and harpsichord. Johann, or something close to that...

 

Bach never technically played the piano, so wouldn't qualify here. I imagine he wouldn't have any problem adapting though.

 

Bach indeed played the piano, and he endorsed them (for $$) in his later years. The (forte)piano was born around 1700. Bach famously dissed one of them around 1736 or 37, the "Silbermann". Eventually, good ol JS approved of them and got a few bucks for doing so. Scroll down to "Silbermann and Bach"

By that time, the instrument was "piano-y" enough to call it a "piano". The dropping of "forte" from piano was more of a slang thing than anything else. And thus concludes my nerd moment for the day, thank you for your time. :thu:

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The fortepiano is somewhat different than the pianoforte (our modern piano.)

 

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Lots of differences, but the piano that Bach played was still a piano. It did loud and soft. Nerd power! :cool:

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I hear there was a guy who predated him, who was reported to be no slouch on both organ and harpsichord. Johann, or something close to that...

 

Bach never technically played the piano, so wouldn't qualify here. I imagine he wouldn't have any problem adapting though.

 

Bach indeed played the piano, and he endorsed them (for $$) in his later years. The (forte)piano was born around 1700. Bach famously dissed one of them around 1736 or 37, the "Silbermann". Eventually, good ol JS approved of them and got a few bucks for doing so. Scroll down to "Silbermann and Bach"

By that time, the instrument was "piano-y" enough to call it a "piano". The dropping of "forte" from piano was more of a slang thing than anything else. And thus concludes my nerd moment for the day, thank you for your time. :thu:

 

Fair enough. What I really meant is he never played piano extensively or wrote any works for the instrument, although I suppose playing harpsichord, clavichord, and organ certainly count in terms of the different techniques required.

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Bob Mayo can be seen jamming on a rhodes and Hammond at the same time :crazy:

 

Makes me want to give up...

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Brian Auger is my favorite at multitasking on the Rhodes and Hammond.

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Lucky Peterson, Chris Cain... two bad mofo's who kill on piano, B3 and guitar

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I'm having fun learning to play them both at the same time. Maybe I'm not so great at it, but it's nice to get both sounds going at once. My biggest issue is I have a pretty weak left hand, so whatever instrument I'm playing on left hand has to get a pretty simple part. Most often I'll play pad-like midrange chords on left hand and do right-hand punctuation on the piano.

 

Dunno if anyone would call it "really good" though -- depends on the frame of reference! :laugh:

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Don't blame me. I still play organ too muck like a piano player, and piano too much like a hack.
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kanker
Don't blame me. I still play organ too muck like a piano player, and piano too much like a hack.

And you play Wurli like a little girly, man. ;)

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He's amazing on organ - yet to hear him on piano.

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When he taught in the area, I saw him a few times on piano, and was very impressed. But I think he has a really unique voice on the Hammond, and is merely(I'm saying this tongue in cheek) a very, very good modern jazz pianist.

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yeah I agree.. there are different degrees of excellence... different genres etc.

 

Btw.. I bought a Kronos thinking it would replace my CX-3... but although it uses the same engine I can't play it anywhere near as well as I can on the CX-3... so it stays... :D

 

 

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Btw.. I bought a Kronos thinking it would replace my CX-3... but although it uses the same engine I can't play it anywhere near as well as I can on the CX-3...

Is this because of the action of the Kronos keybed? Do you have the 61-key Kronos, or is your Kronos a weighted action model?

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That was not the intention of the OP. Looks like it is about to be derailed.

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i have a 61, but I think the whole form factor of the CX-3 and the action, with immediate sound on depress without going to the bottom of the travel, are all points...

 

I mean it's supposed to be a new and improved engine but I don't really care for it to be honest... but I love my CX-3...

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