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Classical Music

sir pball

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2. Well, in his words"you can modify the sound on a guitar!"

Reply to ManiacJoe (Reply #1)

Sat Jun 4, 2016, 12:16 AM

Jun 2016

And he's quite right, you can bend and hammer and do all sorts of interesting things with an axe, but I've always felt it's harder to do amazing things with the constraints of a keyboard.

Liszt actually has some fantastic melodies, but they're so freaking intricate you have to sit down with a pencil and work them out.

Eta - the Transcendental Etudes and in particular the Feux Follets are possibly the most technically challenging works ever written, so, yeah.

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Kind of like just plucking strings. ManiacJoe Jun 2016 #1

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