And so we ran into a problem...! The girls (and especially Evelien, our youngest) had asked many times lately when daddy could use their services again as beautiful page turners. The "beautiful" is not added by me, no false modesty here, although I think the girls believe honestly that their presence add to the overall human beauty of the video, a statement or conviction to which I would be the last one to object ;-).
And purely by accident, Pachelbel's famous Ciaona in F Minor jumped spontaneously from the shelve, and let it be so, again, purely by accident that page turnings of the Bärenreiter 1974 edition I use, need a page turner. Or two.
And so we started off that evening, with our Evelien as you could expect from a not yet 5 year old girl, forgetting her job immediately and forgetting the cameras at the same time. Starting to dance instead, responding in a natural way to the music. That she does often. You will see her but very rarely pass the clavichord, without unconscientiously dancing, moving, shaking her head, hands, arms, legs,in the rhythm of the music. Sofie is the same, although you would not tell if you watched her here in this video so seriously next to her daddy. She is eleven, so FULLY aware of the 'importance' of her job.
So there we stood, all three. Happy. But then daddy wanted to make a second take...things went slightly off script. More jumping, more expressiveness, more joy I'd say. All still happy, but The Neumann's didn't like the booming sounds of the jumps, but hey, they are to be neglected here. So third take. More jumps, more movements with arms and legs, dangerous at times, with one absolute high point: Evelien lifting my left arm from the keys. I should show you once that passage, it is really funny (not that I believed it was funny at the moment though :-) ). Unnecessary to say that it is essential for playing to keep both hands ON the keyboard. So a bit of discussion going on. Fun was over. She'd stayed at Anja's lap. Period. Once decided, ever decided. O, they say Evelien is 'exactly' her daddy (that exactly is emphasized then). Don't know what they mean by that. So we made our third take - the previous one was interrupted by demanding my left arm for dance purposes;- with Sofie only.

Next day.
"Daddy?"
"Yes, snoepeke" (that is the Flemish diminutive for candy).
"Daddy, why did you had to play more than one time?"
Daddy thinking (what a great question).
'Hmm, I...don't know, why do you ask?"
"Nothing."
Mila -the second generation cat - distracts her and off she goes.

And so I sat at the computer, still thinking on our conversation on the one take and looking at a too wide-angled shot that showed too much of the Erard, the stairs, cables... I could move the whole view to the left, but how to fill the empty spot then?
Ah! And there you have the solution: Sofie on the left, Evelien on the right, stolen from the first take. Thank you digital age, we not always agree, but now I owe you a little girls smile :-).
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