History of the Pianoforte, by Bosendorfer....

[uhoh7]

"A rediscovered treasure found in our archive as a gift for all lovers and interested friends of this incredible instrument."

Bosendorfer

 

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D4 has a damper ring going on my beloved U1 clone, a black 1986 Young Chang upright I bought new. I was surfing the tube to see how to fix it and this popped up in my stream.

 

Hear and see every kind of piano that ever was, in action, at ever increasing pace. My favorite is a double deck piano, which included a full set of church pedals, organ style, but connected to some serious bass strings in a big case underneath. The effect is jaw dropping. You never saw so many fancy keyboards in your life or heard such great variety of tone from piano strings.

[Docbop]

But it didn't have aftertouch!

[Mark Schmieder]

Around 39:50 we begin to hear about a piano with six pedals, which are then demonstrated one by one, including a "bassoon stop"!

[jazzpiano88]

Around 39:50 we begin to hear about a piano with six pedals, which are then demonstrated one by one, including a "bassoon stop"!

 

Quite.

I was vacillating between watching this and the JPL path of Voyager II out of the solar system. Seriously though it was pretty interesting.

[uhoh7]

But it didn't have aftertouch!

Voltaire noticed: "un piano-forte qui est un instrument de chaudronnier en comparaison du clavecin"

 

Clavecin = Clavichord, many of which had a aftertouch capable of vibrato.

 

The clavichord is due for a serious comeback, IMHO.

 

What is interesting to me is that the modern piano is American. Lots of action fiddling by those euros, but the iron frame, which seperates the piano from the pianoforte more than anything else, is new world.