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Question for piano players: is this "When in Rome" video scenario realistic?

Posted on 2/20/20 at 12:41 am
Posted by THRILLHO
Old Metairie near Cleary
Member since Apr 2006
50502 posts
Posted on 2/20/20 at 12:41 am
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It's in the first few seconds of the video. The dude plays a tune on one side of the piano, shifts over to the opposite side of the piano, and plays pretty much the same tune. Can he do something with the foot thing to make that happen? I suspect that they just did it for the video transfer from the top of the attractive woman to the bottom of the attractive woman. Sad! Thank you for your time.
This post was edited on 2/20/20 at 12:42 am
Posted by composerdave
Los Angeles
Member since Dec 2019
116 posts
Posted on 2/20/20 at 2:00 am to
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Can he do something with the foot thing to make that happen?


No. Not with any regular acoustic piano (you could do it with a MIDI keyboard). This was just for the shot. Kind of how a lot of acoustic guitar parts are shown played on electric guitars (and vice versa) in 80s videos. Irving Berlin did have a trick piano that allowed him to transpose keys but not by octaves.

What is being heard in the track is a single octave just above middle C4 (C, D, F, E, D, E). What we see being played is at first, 1 and 2 octaves below what we hear (C2 and C3). Then 2 and 3 octave above what we hear (C6 and C7)
Posted by parrotdr
Cesspool of Rationalization
Member since Oct 2003
7950 posts
Posted on 2/20/20 at 8:53 am to
I can't hear this song anymore without thinking of Napoleon Dynamite. It played over the closing scene.
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