What are the main instruments JS Bach studied?
There is very little historical evidence that Bach played the violin, but Albert Schweitzer suspected that he did. According to Schweitzer, all of Bach’s music is violinistic, even his music written for other instruments. (I play the violin and I agree.) Besides, Schweitzer has an argument through inductive reasoning: he says that many of the other organists at the time were also violinists. Some of the organists played 4-part chorales by playing the tenor and bass part on the organ pedals while playing the soprano and alto parts on the violin as double stops. Perdendo wasn’t quite right on one point: the piano was invented during Bach’s lifetime, he tried it once, didn’t like it, and therefore never composed for it. This has been a source of embarrassment for the piano industry. At least one writer made the excuse that the model which Bach tried wasn’t a very good model, and that the piano has been upgraded since then.
