Harpsichordists are supposed to make love not war.
Skeletons copulating on a tin roof.
My reply to this comment is skeletons of what animal.
Now the harpsichord is very much the preserve of specialists and early music.
Quite an amusing statement but no less was to be expected of a man like beecham known for his sharp tongue and one liners.
From the skeletons copulating on a tin roof jibes of conductor sir thomas beecham to its unfavourable characterisation as the ideal instrument of the addams family the harpsichord is an often.
A famous english conductor said that the harpsichord sounded like two skeletons copulating on a tin roof.
Once he described the sound of the harpsichord as two skeletons copulating on a tin roof.
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If we believe as sir thomas beecham did that the harpsichord sounds like skeletons copulating on a tin roof then this was a veritable orgy.
That was indeed the story in question.
Although many will disagree like the conductor sir thomas beecham 1879 1961 who s alleged opinion was that the sound of a harpsichord is something in the lines of two skeletons copulating on a tin roof in a thunderstorm.
Start together and finish together.
8 quotes from thomas beecham.
But now two masters of the instrument.
An instrument that was once the basis of every orchestra and chamber ensemble was long ago replaced by the stronger and for some sweeter sounding piano.
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By the time beecham s harpsichord story made its way down to australia it became two skeletons copulating on a tin roof.
Good reply but i have no answer to that.
February 13 2008 at 10 58 pm reply.
Sir thomas beecham famously compared the sound they make to two skeletons copulating on a tin roof.
On another occasion he declared that the british may not like music but they absolutely love the noise.
Try everything once except folk dancing and incest the sound of a harpsichord two skeletons copulating on a tin roof in a thunderstorm.
And there are two golden rules for an orchestra.
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