#harpischord

[titleknown]

Hot take, while the pipe organ is great, I think the harpischord is underrated in terms of spooky gothic instruments in boss music.

Like, you hear that in a boss theme and you know you're in for fighting some kind of rad as hell fancy Dracula at the very least...

[jalonz0]

(John D. Alonzo)

[sleepinginmygrave]

what a fucking BOP

[mishkakagehishka]

Every time i catch a harpsichord in a valkyrie song i remember that theory that was like "harpsichords are probably mika's signature" and then i instantly remember that "liking a character that feels like they were designed specifically for you feels like falling into a trap" post

[sins-of-the-sea]

"I JUST STOLE BOUGHT THAT FORTEPIANO, WHY IS IT IN PIECES?!?!?!" Despite being Greed, it seems Giovanni will never have nice things.

[unhelpfulfemme]

I think Lymond's early scenes with the Somervilles gain a lot more nuance and impact and emotional punch when you reread them.

Because, okay, on the first read they seem like kind, intelligent, respectable people who love each other very much - the warmth and connection and the instinctual wordless understanding between Gideon and Kate is immediately palpable - but at that point you don't really know enough about Francis to understand how they appear to him specifically. At this point he just seems like a callous cunt who takes pleasure in offending anyone who isn't Christian.

But think about it - artistic, intellectual boy grows up in a family full of constant acrimonious conflict (Mother bought a crate of books, Father burned it, they fought over it, Father drank...), his interests cnstantly belittled as too soft and his things smashed against walls until he learns to be vicious enough to defend himself. Father seems resentful about his very existence, angelic little sister has suicidal tendencies, Mother loves him but can be a manipulative bitch. He's a POW at sixteen, then groomed by an older woman, then sent to a probable death by that same woman. He's accused of treason over an incident that killed the sister, spends years as a slave suffering through every kind of abuse imaginable, tries coming back home but Father kicks him out because he doesn't believe him.

Ends up running a band of outlaws and considering how he later admits to hating the St. Mary's lifestyle - where his officers are all middle class intellectuals handpicked by himself - because he misses his music and his clever conversation and being friends with women? Can you imagine how he must have felt with the outlaws, where he, who used to read books on ethics for fun, had to constantly keep them entertained so they don't rape and pillage their way across their own countryside?

And then he goes to Flaw Valleys and sees a music room? And one of the first things to come out of Kate's mouth is how must not get many opportunities to play the harpischord with his kind of lifestyle, and how he must miss it a lot? She has no idea how much she's hit it right on the head.

And then he gets to know them, and they're... probably his Platonic ideal of a perfect family? He probably didn't think families like that existed outside of his own imagination (just compare them to every other family we see in the series). And then compare them to Francis's own interests and personality.

The husband is an accomplished musician, and the wife adores him for it and begs him to play every opportunity she gets. When he's in a mood, she knows how to draw him out of it skillfully and subtly and wittily and without being too intrusive. He, in turn, knows her well enough to anticipate her every need and delights in making her happy and giving her everything he can. There's palpable love and respect and understanding between them - they seem to understand each other wordlessly. They're both kind and empathetic and well-educated and keep themselves up-to-date on current events, on which they have nuanced and insightful opinions beyond picking a side. The wife is a master of witty conversation and enjoys and can keep up with Francis's own barbed back-and-forth. The husband and Francis come to an immediate understanding over politics despite technically being on opposite sides of a very complicated war. The husband's managed to keep his hands clean throughout it. Their daugher is already growing up to be a person of intellect, talent, and bold personality, because she's growing up surrounded with love and care and support and books and music and opportunities to be carefree and make messes and run around with the village boys.

He's barely twenty and he's been to hell and back so many times that he feels subhuman, and these picture perfect people take him in even though he's done nothing but treat them like shit, and they offer him their kindness and care and support and try to help him every way they can despite having zero reason to trust him or like him.

Can you imagine the kind of pedestal he'd put them on? It's no wonder he keeps coming back and maintains that friendship through everything. They're like the only stars he can see from his pitch-black gutter.

And I think this makes all his hand wringing over Philippa a lot more understandable, especially considering how he now sees himself as subhuman in ten additional ways after the extra trauma of the intervening years? On the first read you kind of just want to smack him because he's being so unreasonable, but really at that point you've spent so much time in Philippa's head and so little in Francis's that she's just Philippa to you (despite all the admiration she gets), while Francis is the one everyone is constantly panting over.

But to him she's part of a family so perfect and loving and healthy and aligned with all his ideals that he can't quite bring himself to believe that not only do they exist but they also like his miserable self, a family to whom he owes a great personal debt he can never repay (as he tells Kate in RC) and Philippa's the brightest and most impressive and accomplished member of that family. She is on a pedestal so high there's literally nothing he can do to measure up to what she means to him short of becoming a god.

And then consider how he later thinks that she's broken herself beyond repair over him. They're the only pure and flawless thing he knows of, the literal embodiment of how he dreams of people being in an ideal world, and he's destroyed it.

[masterhallmark]

Watching Fox's Peter Pan and the Pirates, it's abundantly clear the pirates have no idea how long they've actually been in Neverland.

The play Peter Pan came out in 1904 and the kids are clearly Victorian. At one point the kids try to teach Peter Victorian manners (they fail...he took "ice breaker" literally).

Hook is dressed in 18th century fashion and plays the Harpischord, which was a popular instrument for that time period.

Furthermore, any time Hook thinks Peter is dead, he tells everyone to sail for The Spanish Main.

This WAS the Spanish Main

It was a common area for pirates, up until the early 19th century. The war for Mexican Independence was 1810. Britain took possession of Florida in 1763 as part of some negotiations. The Spanish Main was no more by the time Wendy and her brothers were even born.

He also tried to annex Neverland in the name of the British Empire, and was decieved when Peter and his friends were dressed up as French musketeers. The uniforms the boys were wearing while pretending to be musketeers was from 1727

All this while (in one episode) disliking his birthday because he believes it's bringing him closer to death, and wanting the source of Peter's eternal youth. Not only does that indicate he doesn't realize he's stopped aging, but he probably hasn't been keeping track of how long he's been there or his age.

I don't think he knows he's been there two centuries. I don't think he noticed the passing of time much at all.

EDIT: Ok, he mentioned Queen Victoria in "Dr. Livingstone" and he has Victorian era novels. So he's not COMPLETELY out of the loop. He must have a limited amount of contact with the outside world.

Double edit: In the finale when he meets adult Pan and fails to recognize him, he asks if Peter served in the royal navy in "The war of 12" most likely referring to the war of 1812, so he more likely landed in Neverland in the early 19th century.

.....that or he occasionally leaves Neverland, which would explain why he has a lot of late-Victorian literature, as well as where he keeps getting gold to bury from.

[gasparodasalo]

Johann Gottfried Müthel (1728-88) - Concerto for Harpsichord, 2 Bassoons, Strings and Basso continuo in d-minor, III. Allegro di molto. Performed by Bernward Lohr, harpischord, and Musica Alta Ripa on period instruments.

[en-la-casademiamor]

Adulthood IV. played to a Harpischord.

I drove up a steep mountain through deep set fog. I was afraid my eyes

would fail to see too late, the sudden silhouette of a pedestrian crossing

or the boxed in shape of a car hurtling through my dash window.

I let go and let life, and said, well, if this is the day, then it is, but it wasn’t. I made it to where I needed to go

and I made it back home earlier than previously anticipated–As for the fog, like a lingering consumption, it did not relent.

She did not dissipate by call of prayers and it was not until early dawn/ next day

that I realized, this phenomena is the only means that unwittingly lures me back to the hinterland where

two ghostly figures still wave goodbye to one another. Both in full discernment–No, that is not true,

one had more than the other, but both played at mime to perfection;

equally producing feigned smiles through sad eyes:

facing a world in where our perspective days would never be lived out quite the same.

[titleknown]

You ever think about how quietly underrated the harpischord is as an instrument?

Like, when you hear it, y'all just know some gothic spooky bullshit is going down, and it's gonna be cool as hell.

[224bbaker]

Hi! I love the podcast, I just have one question, did you intentionally make the opening music sound like the Tetris theme? Because every time I heard it, all I could think of was the Tetris theme; although, that might just be me, I’ve played a fair amount of Tetris.

Either way, I love the intro music, and the podcast as a whole, thank you for the amazing talent and effort that went into the show.

Hi there! Oh my god this is amazing--I checked with our composer and it was not intentional, but it IS hilarious. It makes sense with what we wanted the energy to be--a sort of mischievous, playful, repeatable jingle with energy behind it, and the harpischord (which holds down the primary melody of our theme) is an instrument that can sound very similar to that sort of 80s keyboard vibe.

That is actually something we discussed at length, the harpsichord potentially turning the theme unintentionally modern (well, 80s)--we tried moving it to a grand piano for a bit--but we ended up going with it anyway because we liked the fusion of classical and modern, especially when that "modern" is kinda silly. We didn't want a Holmes-style violin theme, we wanted to have them be a bit more anachronistic, but we never wanted to set them up to be particularly cool, as "cool" is not something we can consistently deliver. Hence, an 80s game-theme-sounding harpsichord theme with an over dramatic beat drop for the outro.

Thank you so much for the question, this has been an amazing discovery!

[edwardscissorfeet]

i think julius caesar would slay on the. harpischord. clang clang clang (music and also his bones when hes bouncing and moaning on it)

[thesherrinfordfacility]

✨ episode 5 - running commentary✨

- this episode better be the one to Alter My Brain Chemistry, I NEED AN explanation for the too fast for me scene pls

- THEY BETTER KISS I S2G

- right okay hi shax I hate you 😘 but Miranda is killing WAIT TEN THOUSAND WHAT THATA OVERKILL ITS ONE SILLY BILLY ANGEL AND A DUMB ASS DEMON

- "can I watch" crowley TONE IT DOWN KINKY BOY

- "there will be sandwiches" LOL IM IN BABES

- DOCTOR WHO lmao harpischord guy get fucking SERVED

- HES JUST TEMPTED SOMEONE AND GIVEN AWAY A BOOK??? my guy going through some ROUGH character development

- hell is literally so understaffed wtf

- MAGIC SHOP AGAIN YES

- ERDNASE REFERENCE ERDNASE REFERENCE

- Crowley is so proud of his husband BUT THAT FEZ NEEDS TO GOOOOO

- neil if you ever read this pls can we have aziraphale be a permanent party planner bc he does the mostest and pls ignore my criticism of ep1 and 2 I take it all back pls pls more aziraphale planning tf out of shit

- SHAX MOMMY YES💅💅💅 ALSO ERIC MY BELOVED My sweet baby boy

- FRENCH AZIRAPHALE YOU NEED TO STOP crowley is FED UP he looks like a kid whose mum got caught chatting at the supermarket

- aziraphale pls stop

- NINA KNOWS WHATS UP GAY SPOTS GAY

- no crowley don't make that face no why why why WHY YOU LOOKING LIKE THAT😭😭😭✨ he loves you CROWLEY YOU BLIND FUCKKNG IDIOT and you love HIM you emotionally stunTED APE

- the glasses and sideburns are still BUGGING ME someone explain did he go shOPPING OFF SCREEN????

- ERIC NO BYEBYE MY LOVERRRRR

- wow that was a long pre credit bit wtf

- DATE???? oh no crowley is pulling away no no no

- "SMUT?" fucking OKAY??? DO IT THEN YOU PUSSY ASS BITCH✨💓

- fuck they're about to have a Conversation aren't they and get drunk and it's about to get EMOTIONAL

- Crowley FUCK

- CROWLEY BOO

- "friend" ok lol

- he's about to throw mf HANDS but goob is so innocent NO WAIT CROWLEY NO DOMT DO THAT oh thank fuck

- matchbox ajamakajalam sns

- lmao the growth that Crowley just did in 30 seconds gave me WHIPLASH

- Muriel no pls don't do it bbygirl💓💓 OH GOD YOUVE GONE DONE IT NOW

- ah Jim's mug

- DECORATING MIRACLES YES BABY

- WAIT AND SEE ✨✨✨✨

- oh aziraphale I love u so MUCH 😭😭😭

- Mrs sandwich I LOVE HER no aziraphale don't ask pls bby

- CROWLEY WHAT U SNIFFIN HONEY UR LIKE A BLOODHOUND FOR TROUBLE WHAT A POWER

- GOOB YOU ARE FABULOUS DARLING I LOVE JT✨

- "you young people"

- F BOMB FUCK YES

- oh no Maggie no not you CROWLEY YOU HERO GOD BLESS tell em babes

- lmao are they even gonna get to dance this is so stressful

- Mrs sandwich just chill out honey you are a madam SEX WORK IS VALID REAL WORK I said what I said

- "have a vol au vent" SO MARRIED💓

- omg am i now liking Maggie and nina hmmmmmmm AZIRAPHALE'S FACE crowley you could have that IF YOU EVEN TRIED MY GUY

- I HAVE SUCH JACKET ENVY LMAOOOO goob you are the only valid character

- WHAT no stop goob stop

- fuck OFF THEY ACTUALLY SANCE FUXK KM SWEATINF NOOOOOOK💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓

- AHHHHHHHHHHHHH BOYS PLEASE

- well fuck that's put a spanner in the works

- aziraphale go fucking NAILS GET THEIR ASS oh that's not good✨

- GOOBY NO BE QUIET SHHHHHH

- GOOB NO

- NO GOOB

- the mf coat is SPECTACULAR ✨✨✨✨ did they spend the whole budget on it???? HES SO FABULOUS AND FRUITY

- oh my god the miracle is working against them fuck

- the fact that the humans are just chilling lmaoooo

- NEIL WE NEED CROWLEY AS A LAWYER PLS THANK U they just got SEVRED✨💓

- lmao IT WAS FAKE HAHAHAHAHA

- Mr brown shut up pipe down back in your box

- see that's what you get when you run your mouth

- IS THIS EVERY

- CMON GIVE ME EVERY

- oh my god crowley is the PATRON VIRGIN saint of sex work I LIVE FOR IT god bless or maybe not

- IS THAT A PRAISE KINK I SEE

- "rescuing me makes him so happy" FUCKING DECEASED

- Muriel lmao we know this it's ok bby take HIM TO HEAVEN IN THE ANGEL-ON-THE-ASS TRACKSUIT

- the MUSIC OKAY ITS GOOD NOW YES YES YES✨

- GOING UP

- I'm dead

[as-easel]

turn up the harpischord i cant hear the harpischord

[cahootings]

really glad the uneasy harpischord post that is circulating has my messy ass tv stand clutter. why didn't i crop that image