Quiet nights and quiet stars 09 05 2017
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- Recording of a practise session on the 9th of May 2017. There were 10 takes and this is take 5. The video was taken with my Fuji FX1 compact camera which does lack in the bass frequencies.
Your playing is very soul healing, truly penetrating, Thank you 🙏
Thank you for your kind remarks, that was 8 years ago. I try to do justice to each piece and to bring out something new hidden in it, that does a lot for the soul when it can be achieved. I started at 10 and I'm now 85 and still trying, the piano might be about my age, ha! Take care.
Good evening Sir, I see that the work on your piano is finished. I hope you like its sound. I recognize the personality of the IBACH brand, and I find that your piano projects brighter sounds, full of charm and always with romanticism. Thank you for your recordings. Your improvisations are always so beautiful.
best regards
Danielle Drude
Hello Danielle again. It was time that I tried to record some more of songs that I love so much. It dawned on me that what you said was so true about the Ibach sound. How I wish though that I had kept the Steinway that I inherited from my father; an instrument like a Steinway grand is so much more responsive to touch and sound so much richer, one can squeeze so much emotion out of those much more expensive pianos. Wherever I travel I make my way into piano stores and head for the great pianos trying them all out. I hope you are enjoying your piano and playing often, there is such satisfaction in being able to make music, any music. I uploaded a recording I made this morning.."Stella by Starlight", it's full of mistakes etc. but I decided that one does not have to be perfect. My piano tuner came a few months ago and did what he could to improve the Ibach, he told me that the piano had been set up with a very light touch. There we are Danielle, I hope you are well and safe.
Hello Sir, Thank you for your words of support. It is so painful to lose your child. I only have one daughter and two grandsons. You tell me that your children live and work in Lausanne. They are therefore not very far from my place of residence (80km). I am very close to the Swiss border to Geneva in a small village on the edge of Lake Geneva. My husband and I try not to think too much about the painful things in life. My husband goes fishing on Lake Geneva, and I play the piano. The upright piano on which I play is very good, but it is difficult on an upright to get pianissimos in the back of the key like on a grand piano. This is the only downside. The important thing is to play and it's still a great pleasure that prevents me from thinking too much. Also take care of yourself and continue to improvise and share these so romantic melodies with us.
Friendships
Danielle
Hello Danielle, my daughter works for WHO in Geneva but has been working from home since Covid. If you were on Facebook we could communicate more easily. I am still very active in what I am involved with and that is a blessing but can also be stressful. You take care and be safe. Fred.
Hello Fred, I had to return to the store the IBACH piano from 1988 that I had for some time and that I had told you about. I was quite happy with it, but found that there were about a hundred holes in the belt of the piano. These holes were made by an insect called VRILLETTE, which is found on the Breton coast and in England, in wetlands. The store took over the piano and as they had no other valid grand piano, they offered me two new C. Bechstein upright pianos: one from 116 and another from 124. I accepted. I had no choice. I will therefore resell these 2 pianos or find another dealer who agrees to exchange these new pianos for a used grand piano. The research is not going to be easy. We are confined in France until May 2. In the meantime, I can play on one of the two upright pianos: the 124. it's a good piano but despite the latest technical improvements in recent years, it remains an upright piano with its limits.
The IBACH piano that I kept for a while felt quite supple and quite heavy at the same time. It seems contradictory but I cannot express this particularity of touching. I will continue my research and I am moving towards a STEINWAY o180 or an AUGUST FORSTER on occasion. what a waste of time. The important thing is still to play at all costs, even on a piano that I don't like enough. I am disappointed anyway, and I try to stay positive. I have to keep my spirits up because I lost my 54 year old daughter a year ago. The piano allows me to forget the hard times of life a little. Your piano sounds beautiful but I understand your regret at not being able to play on the STEINWAY piano that you had before. And also keep recording, because you improvise so well and with a lot of romanticism. It is a pleasure to listen to you.
Friendships.
Danielle
I'm so sad to hear about yor daughter, my children live and work in Lausanne in Switzerland, they both speak french. My daughter is 51 and so I can relate to your sad news.
I gathered from your YouTuvbe site that you were French already. I have some close friends in France and only just visited Bordeaux in January 2020 just when the first covid carriers reached Bordeaux, I was visiting Bordeaux university. I left in a hurry.
You are so right about playing on an upright, my grandchildren have a Steinway upright , it does sound quite good compared to others.
Do take care as I know what your is to your life. I too have lost many close friends around me in the last years, and just today I was told another lost her life to cancer early this morning. It's a beautiful world but at the same time a cruel one. My songs do have some origins from people that I have lost.
You take care and keep enjoying music you make.