All Things Rhapsodical

All Things Rhapsodical

Keyboard Aesthetics

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Alexander Riley
Nov 05, 2025
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A pianist at the keys.

A human body set before a device with 88 little levers, hands curved and fingers poised to press them and thereby extract from them the delightful essence we call music.

The unutterable beauty of the form.

The jazz virtuoso, the impossible fluency and physical presence. As though the thing is not an object external at all, but an ex…

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