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Towards the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th emerged an epoch known as "THE GREAT PIANISTS" and "THE GREAT INVENTIONS" in which musicians and intellectuals had sensed the role machines would play today.
Ferruccio Busoni, a great virtuoso and composer of the 19th century said: "I am almost convinced that in the new authentic music, machines will become a necessity and will play an important role. Perhaps industry, it self, will be instrumental in the advancement and metamorphosis of the aesthetic era."
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Design engineers of this epoch abounded with ideas. They created pneumatic techniques to memorize how pianists would play rather than recording them with microphones.
Subsidized by entrepreneurs, they built authentic recording studios where pianos equipped with these systems would plot (like today's electrocardiograms) the pianists actions (the instant they pressed or released the keys or pedals and the strength with which they applied them).
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These types of recordings and all they encompassed were destined for elegant "salons" which could afford the luxury of a top-of-the-range piano equipped for the mechanical reproduction of all these parameters.
One of the objectives of the "Best of Ampico Classics" is to take up Busoni's challenge with new technologies in order to share this unique international offering until now reserved for a few privileged members of the music community with as many music lovers as possible.
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So we used today's machines to transcribe the information contained in these recordings by digitalization and other computer routines, making them exploitable on virtual instruments.
As always with a thirst for the aesthetic in the service of Music, Pascal Marcelin exploited his ideas to reconstruct, in a virtual spacialization of proximity, the actual sensation of the pianists (Busoni, Rachmanivov, Lhevinne, Levitzki, Paderewski, ...) touch on the keys, effects on pedals, hammer and string release, sympathetic resonances...
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