The Carpenters

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I hope they both reincarnate soon.

Wow, what a trip down memory lane. Just spent the evening listening to her songs after all these years. I remember hours spent listening to her in the background with my first boyfriend. Not that we could have called each other that back then. A few tears were shed tonight, just like then. But i just realized that her song Solitaire could almost be an Aspie anthum.

i watched the video you embedded of him.
he is quite proficient in his knowledge of the notes it seems. i do not like the song much however because i feel it would be boring to play, but that is just my character.


who? hymans or carpenter's? i suspect you mean carpenter as his is the only video in this thread with multiple keyboard adaptations represented.

he does not seem to like the electric piano (instrument no# 3 (not to be patronizing)) because he seems to halter as he is going to iterate the chords meant for it.
the grand piano (inst#1) was wide and tonically encompassing and clinical, the upright (inst#2) was dramatic and old western movie-ish, and the harpsichord (#4) was renaissance with flair and the toy keyboard (#5) was a fairy tale like ethereal arrangement, and then he goes back to the acoustic grand and iterates a combination of all the subsets he demonstrated on the various keyboards, but curiously the electric piano subset is not included in the melody.

when you say that hyman could give carpenter a "run for his money", i am not sure what you meant, but if you are alluding to a competition, i did not have that in mind when i posted the carpenter clip.
i simply was showing that he had a level of talent in a technical way that was never called upon to display within the structure of the "carpenters" band (it is curious that no one has dyslexically spelled them as the "crapenters")

as far as technical proficiency is concerned, he is good (i believe), but here is a very exceptional or genius example of technical proficiency in the performance of dizzy fingers.

I meant to say that the estimable dick hyman was at least as proficient on multiple keyboard instruments including liturgical and theatrical pipe organs.

I loved the Carpenters.

I admired her drumming just as well. how somebody could sing in a level voice even when whipping those cymbals and drums, is to me a quasi-superhuman power.