tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10424035.post4297769659655292685..comments2023-09-11T08:58:24.710-06:00Comments on Reach Upward: Piano to the Fifth PowerScott Hinrichshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11831447472339880148noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10424035.post-33953386640600696752009-10-05T11:25:54.463-06:002009-10-05T11:25:54.463-06:00Various of my children (and me) have done duets on...Various of my children (and me) have done duets on one piano, and quartets on two pianos a number of times. Five pianos is different.<br /><br />When two players are on one piano, there is a constant choreography of the interplay between the upper player's left hand and the lower player's right hand.<br /><br />When each player in a piano team is on his/her own piano, each player has command of the full keyboard. My parts on the two pieces we played spanned most of the keyboard rather than being contained to a 2½-octave range, which is the common range for a duet. But I didn't have to worry about tangling hands with another player.<br /><br />Still, my part on each piece was less difficult than a solo of the same pieces would have been.<br /><br />But playing on the team was more challenging than, say, playing in a high school band, because we had no conductor to keep us together. We had to carefully listen to and watch each other. We worked out some visual cues and put different people in charge of signaling timing on different parts of the music.<br /><br />So, while each individual part on a piano team is easier than a solo, other complexities are involved that require additional skills that are not employed by a soloist.Scott Hinrichshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11831447472339880148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10424035.post-50163389887777512472009-09-29T08:43:42.192-06:002009-09-29T08:43:42.192-06:00Wow! It would be cool to hear those arrangements f...Wow! It would be cool to hear those arrangements for five pianos! Was each part simpler because there where so many hands? I think the most I've seen before was two pianos, eight hands.Bradley Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06030210881782328907noreply@blogger.com