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Showcasing "My Home Studio":

A Musical Tour with Organ, Harpsichord, and Piano Featuring Rameau’s “Les Niais de Sologne” and a Handcrafted Touch​.

​This is a fun little video I did to showcase thee instruments in my home music studio. The organ is a virtual pipe organ I constructed from a couple of midi keyboards using the Organteq software. I built the pedals and case from ash, maple, cherry and walnut. The harpsichord is a Burton Spinet that I built from a kit back in the 1980s. My wife Laurie painted the case and also made the quilt hanging on the wall. The piano is my 1987 C3 - still looks perfect, plays and sounds great.

     The piece I am playing is the theme from Rameau's "Les Niais de Sologne". Since it is in Rondo form it works well for switching between instruments. I used the organ and piano on the sections that could use terrace dynamics, and the harpsichord (since it cannot play dynamics) elsewhere. Putting the video together was a fun challenge, listening to one track while recording another. Hope you like it!

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Sam's background

​Sam had a few years of piano lessons as a kid, but they didn't take! He retired in 2014 from Georgia Tech, where he worked in IT. He started piano lessons again in 2010, only missing six months in 2014 so that he could do a thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail, starting in Maine and walking 2100 miles home to Georgia. In 2016 (at age 62) he enrolled in the University of West Georgia, pursuing a Bachelor of Music degree in Piano Performance. He graduated in the Spring of 2020.

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