Occasionally I dabble on the piano. One of my ambitions is to advance my limited piano abilities, although over the past few years (and next decade) it’s become difficult to fit the piano in my schedule. Those of you who are musicians will probably agree that after a certain level, the time commitment required to improve becomes exponential (unless you’re a wunderkind). Today I recorded the theme to Schubert’s Impromptu in Bb, Opus 142, No. 3. The work is written in a theme and variation format. It is a melodic piece with limited/no virtuoso runs, suitable for my digital piano. Recorded on a Casio CDP-100 using a pass-through cable to my IBM Thinkpad T42 laptop. Software recording with Audacity, and mp3 encoded using LAME. No editing involved.

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