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George Martin's "In My Life" Piano Solo at Recording Speed

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short video clip taking the "harpsichord solo" from the beatles track "in my life" and slowing it down to its original recording speed. video is a still photograph of producer george martin sitting at a keyboard in the studio with paul mccartney standing over his shoulder
i was always a big fan of the novel recording techniques developed by george martin while working with the beatles, but this was something i learned about very recently:

"Martin wrote a Bach-influenced piece that he found he could not play at the song's tempo. On 22 October, the solo was recorded with the tape running at half speed, so when played back at normal pace the piano was twice as fast and an octave higher, solving the performance challenge and also giving the solo a unique timbre, reminiscent of a harpsichord." [wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...]

full song for reference:
https://www.youtube.com/watch...
the "harpsichord solo" is at 1:28
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joost 6 hours ago
Didn't know this. Tx
scruss pro 3 hours ago
so he Alvin & The Chipmunks'd it?
dad 3 hours ago
I thought it was a harpsicord.
nikkuneko pro 2 hours ago
@scruss "but of all these friends and lovers / i would like a hula hoop"
bencmeissner pro 33 minutes ago
@nikkuneko !! 🤣

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