golyplot wrote:One thing I'm curious about is how much of the style stuff the show talks about is actually accurate. When the characters play different versions, they make a big deal about copying Ajino's style or not, or how Kai plays in an unorthodox style, while Shuuhei plays everything perfectly by the numbers. But of course, as a layman, I couldn't hear the difference at all. I'm curious whether they got whoever was doing the recordings to actually perform in different styles like that and whether trained pianists can tell.
It's not really accurate. There might have been one or two times when the section of the piece they were playing kind of matched up with the commentary, but for the most part this was not the case. There were quite a few times where the reactions bordered on comical, as an audience member would come to some sweeping conclusion after only hearing one or two notes, played in a standard manner. Once that started happening, I realized that the show wanted us to sort of use our imaginations and pretend that what we were hearing matched up with the descriptions. Once I started doing that, I just focused on the characters and the story.