Exquisite! Such elegant skills! BRAVO, Veikko! Chopin has to stand in amazement! I love your style! 😍♾🔝⭐

Title track from the CD "Open Doerr". In 2014, I commissioned a guitar built by master luthier Tom Doerr. After receiving the guitar (pictured), I worked through the next year to produce an instrumental CD of original tunes on this guitar as a way to pay tribute to this amazing instrument built with Lucky Strike Redwood and Cocobolo. 
This track is an Mp3 file from that CD. 
Thanks for listening!

Unknown album (4/9/2015 4:58:41 PM)

"OPEN DOERR"

Beauty, mystery, penetrated by the sun landscapes, Wedding, marriage, nuptials, bridal, nuptial, espousal, glans, coronation. 
Flight in the clouds. Pensive, contemplative journey. Fashion, mode, vogue, style, model.

Mystery Of The Third Planet

Dont_get_me_down_pt_2 by straydawg90

Soundscape Experiment #92

Little Lives Lullaby

This song is a collaboration with my esteemed musician and one of my best friends, Synline (https://soundcloud.com/synline) . The music he creates is truly wonderful. Pls enjoy!

＜Nature Sign＞
https://soundcloud.com/synline/nature-sign?si=88d432cbc8be4358b07f85fecf44f2c4&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

＜Other collaboration work with Synline.＞
https://soundcloud.com/synline/transcending-mozawasynline?si=c551e85cf63349d9800acfe6f4eb2d10&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

“Nature Sign”Synline＝mozawa_*

"Excercise/Study on..." Godowsky: Study No.1 After Chopin Etude Op. 10 No.1 In C Major. K.P.Bach&P.L.Eide 1998 on a live midi. Recorded from playback of its slightly edited (ped.reconfigured) copy by VViljanen May 23, 2023, on a modified medelled Blüthner Grand, reconfigured and the rec,setup made by VV.
 - Rec. version 21...(to still be updated later...)
Any kind of commercial use prohibited.
Photo: 'Vøringfossen' by VViljanen 1989

Study No 1 On Chopin Etudes

Godowsky: Study No.1 After Chopin Op.10 No 1. K.P.Bach & P.L.Eide 1998, rec.VV2023

People are People (cover)

A song about embracing your own “ weirdness “ and fulfilling your dreams, despite the naysayers!!! It’s difficult, but achievable.., keep on going, and speak up … or get spoken for!!!🙏🙏 “ What immortal hand or eye, could frame your fearful symmetry?”-William Blake

Lyrics:
Consider my failures when I try 
To want to laugh and start to cry 
Emotions meant to serve my soul 
Are now my master in control 
Circumstances leading me nowhere 

And it’s gone this way for years 
I love affair with all my fearful symmetry
Well, please excuse my wide eyed wonder
When I’m forced down and trampled under
Your dirty feet again

So tell me, when will I be somewhere?
Close by here, or far from nowhere?
My poverty, it’s plain to see
My riches rags when you’re with me
I’m losing site so maybe you can see
Much clearer than me

And I’m not right if you’re not wrong
It’s been this way for way too long
Let’s talk it out let’s talk it over
Will you push me away or draw me?
Whichever you prefer

We’ve traveled down this road
So many times before
I’ve tightened down the screws
That hinge on your heart’s door
Hiding shadows in your eyes
I’m holding onto something
That was never mine
Never was it mine 

Let’s talk it out let’s talk it over

Fearful Symmetry

Sunday Ballad 2023 Remastered

left with the residue of what there isn ‛t

My warmest thanks to everyone stopping by for listening to my tracks, the most of the representing a  'REVIEW   OF THE PAST TIME PIANISTS' INTERPRETATIONS ON THE HISTORICAL PIANO ROLLS, and in addition to them, also to a minor but growing  LISTS of MY MY OWN RENDITIONS, all of the latter representing a variety of piano music, & some pipe-organ classics, - and  TO THE Growing LISTS OF (just lately done and reproduced)  TRANSCRIPTIONS OF VARIOUS CHAMBER MUSIC CLASSICAL PEARLS FOR TWO PIANOS.
A HEADSET IS RECOMMENDED for optimal sound experience!
This kind of 'touching' on these old pre-sound-rec. era works by the great performers of the past, and giving my sound to these old 'punch rolls',  makes me feel  deep humbleness, .and I wish that this modest attempt to bring these  performances alive will satisfy you listening to them!
To introduce myself...
I am a Finnish M.D., PhD. and Hand Surgeon (now retired), previously when young with 10 years of professionally orientated piano studies at Turku Conservatory in 1965-1975, partly  along with medical University studies. 
The digital sound techniques have become very familiar to me already from 1980's along with my university research work  
and my musical activities.
As continuation to my musical and professional experience, I have, during the last few years of my retirement, adopted a music historical challenge
to bring the past time major and minor pianists, prior to sound-recording era, onto the same 'start line' with the present pianists, by making their presentations, played onto 'punch rolls' i.e. piano rolls, audible with modern digital techniques. This wouldn't be possible without the pioneering  efforts of Richard Stibbons, Wayne Stahnke, Terry Smythe, Warren Trachtman, Spencer Chase, and others, who developed the optical digitizing techniques of the piano rolls, and digitized them.

The main part of my recordings here in SC consists of selection recorded by me from optically digitized piano-rolls** (from 1910's on or earlier, classical and 'vintage era'). These recordings of mine are not and will not be commercially unavailable. - The rolls were first optically scanned and converted into a digital form by diverse operators** (see also to the info of each piece). The pieces here were partly (minor part) picked from various open net sources, publicly available, but mainly from the huge archive (n=ca.5000) of digitized copies copies of the original reproducing piano rolls, made available to me by one of the pioneers of roll digitizing tehchniques (willing to keep anonymous), and then recorded from this archive mainly with virtual grand piano (called by me 'Bluethner Model One') modified/re-designed by me, as well as the rec settings. 
Also a minor selection of my own renditions among my records can be found here, included on my playlist 'Bach Goes Virtual', the name of the list telling something about the techniques used for getting the end result... The list includes various organ works by J.S.Bach and others, and also a few piano renditions of mine. Then there are included also various pieces which have been in my repertoire, but here played mainly by the  'guest' great players of the past (before the sound recording era).
MY MOST HUMBLE THANKS TO THE NOBLE DONOR  OF THIS INVALUABLE PIANO ROLL MATERIAL FOR MY USE!!!
My Sincere Thanks also to The Player Piano Group, UK, for providing me their permission to use the information about the piano rolls collected and provided on their web page ( https://rolls.playerpianogroup.org.uk ),  and for simplifying my short historical presentations of these renditions on their re-publication here!
AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST, MY MOST HUMBLE THANKS TO EVERYONE  OF YOU FOR LISTENING, AND FOR YOUR 'LIKES' & COMMENTS !
YOUR LISTENING & FEEDBACK IS TRULY APPRECIATED..!!.
Use of good headphones or speakers will make your music experience more enjoyable!
Best wishes, all the best
Veikko
These recordings are not commercially available, and ANY KIND OF THEIR COMMERCIAL USE IS PROHIBITED.

Godowsky: Study No.1 After Chopin Op.10 No 1. K.P.Bach & P.L.Eide 1998, rec.VV2023

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