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mm....Secret fingering.....

P.S. The "lilting" and stretched first beats of some of the measures is totally on purpose, btw. Hence it's done differently during different iterations/repeats of the opening line!

I agree with what you say about the wonderful details which you can appreciate better if you slow it down a little. I've been slowly working my way through the Inventions and Sinfonias, having taken up the piano again after a nearly 50-year gap (and never having "done" them before!). My go-to recordings have been those of András Schiff and Angela Hewitt, both supreme experts. But there are cases, such as this sinfonia, where I can't help feeling their tempo is just too fast. Too fast for me, of course! ;-) But also too fast to be able to appreciate and enjoy the details. Is it even physically possible to play all that fast on a clavichord?

Awesome!

You have the exact same piano as I have... I'm trying to learn how to clean it now, haha. Do you think interior auto detail cleaner for the outside is safe to use. I know the maguires interior car cleaner products are designed not to leave any residue, so it doesn't have any wax or oils.

So cute! I never heard this prelude being played on a harpsichord! I love it!❤

Excellent technique! Excellent performance! You know your instrument and your interpretation of the music of that time is outstanding!

Love the sound of harpsichord! Never heard this sinfonia on harpsichord before! Good job!❤

I really enjoy your recordings!

What happened just did it and poof, perfect Thank you

I love the sound of your harpsichord! It's so cute! Great job with this sonata!❤

That piano should be tuned!

I have to go just take a look at this score. :D

No.12 Prayer pourrait presque être une Sonnerie de la Rose+Croix No.4

Beautiful. I put this one in my list.

Wow, what a wonderful piece !

This was so lovely! Love early music!❤

It is still a little too fast

it’s really to slow in tempo!

Oh also--nice flight sim setup. I'm actually an air traffic controller!

Came here from Piano World forums. Fun tour! Which band did your cousins play in?

no I find the Chopin fingering easier. Tnx anyways though

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Can you please explain the difference with the historic fingering and where I can find resources on it. Is this Maria Boxall’s fingering system?

what a brilliant technique!

It’s a fantastic piano. The right amount of regulation voicing and tuning will give you decades of brilliant service. Lifelong companion. A beauty

It does seem easier, thank you, I was just wondering about this part

I'm curious if Domineco Scarlatti's works would be possible with the 57 key limit. I'd imagine that a good number of them probably are. K.466 in F minor is one of my favorites, but there are great many that are good, and are a good flavor change from Bach, given Scarlatti's being influenced by Spanish folk guitar music of that era. Happy to say my own pianistic progress continues with my Petrof IV. It's fine tuned now, and will just be having some regulation done on August 26th to shore up some dampers and the action a little as some of the hammers are a little bobble headed as I mentioned in one of your earlier videos. So yeah, looking forward to having that done. I really really love the smoothness of the action, and the weight is just about perfect (for me). The Steinway D at the church is similarly weighted, but has a little more "click" feeling to the keys.. not stiff, but... more... tactile I guess. And of course the Steinway M that our lessons are on is a bit heavier, and I find it a challenge to really make that particular piano sing (partly because we keep the lid closed, and I think there is also an acoustic cloth over the strings). Anyway, feels great to have something I can really bring out the dynamics with. Oh, and the una corda is loosening up a little. Looking forward to holding some in-home soiree's with some of my fellow adult students. Also, by fine tuned, I mean more that the Petrof is now tuned to I think it's A=438 at the moment. We'll try tuning the pitch fully to A=440 and see if it behaves. If not, we might need to consider a pitch raise. It was pretty out of tune when I bought it, though not nearly as bad as my old childhood Baldwin Hamilton upright was. So, I had a first "rough" tuning done in late May, a week after having it moved, just to make things tolerable for practicing. Fine tuning was done just a couple weeks ago, full month from the first one, so the wood should all be acclimated by now. The pitch had dropped a good several cents since the May tuning, but that was expected as the wood was still acclimating to the new home. I am happy to say that the pitch drop was uniform across all keys, so I didn't even notice that it had happened. That everything was very uniform/even and in tune with the neighbor keys was a nice sign. I did get a hygrometer to keep near the piano, and the room is staying pretty stable, roughly 76 F at 50% humidity with some swings +/- 5 or 6 on the humidity now and then, but nothing major. We have radiant baseboard heating, so the air shouldn't get too dry during the winter months, but I'll monitor.

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I adore her music so much ☺️ many thanks 🔥

Love historic fingering on this un-historic z-box! But it sounds fine, more like a virginal in fact, which is fitting.

Love the sound of the Petrof Piano's there uprights are amazing as well

Absolutely stunning!!

Wow you are brilliant👍💯

Beautiful piano.

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Sibelius *and* kitty content!

I love this piece! I can just imagine this at the title screen of a fantasy adventure game. And it's lovely to see that your new baby is a happy harpsichord now. P.S. I look forward to hearing your rendition of Mein Junes Leben Hat Ein End'. My game project that uses that on the title screen is stalled, so you might just beat me to it!

Historic fingering… 👀

The three pieces on the soundboard are the seams in the veneer. Zuckermann used 3 ply, 1/8 inch thick poplar plywood, for zbox soundboards. You'll never run the risk of a cracked soundboard.

Not bad for having a plywood soundboard.

Very good, now we just need some Scarlatti on that harpsichord! 😁 Update on my piano: everything is now paid in full and it's officially mine. I have to leave the lid propped open with the short stick, otherwise the cats can get onto it and play with the chandelier (as they were want to do when we had the dining table in there). My tech came out yesterday to service the Baldwin, but his first appointment ran long, and there were some circumstances so time was a little short. Instead, we decided to have him look over the Petrof and give it a coarse tuning to get it in the ballpark (it was fairly out of tune). No sense in dialing in a fine tuning until after the wood acclimates to its new home. He did say that the piano is in great condition, soundboard and bridge/ribs are immaculate, and he'd call it almost "like new." The hammers and whippens are in good shape, nothing wrong with the tuning pins or pin blocks. Action is Petrof-built Renner. It DOES need some regulation, mainly the key drop and the dampers. Some keys show the hammer slowly rising back to the string after a couple seconds, almost like a double-strike, but not quite that bad. D3 isn't quite damping properly and rings a little. He has a few other Petrofs in his clients list, and they all seem to need the dampers regulated every so often. But otherwise it's in wonderful shape, and was well cared for. The una corda is a little stiff compared to the sostenuto and damper pedals, not sure if that's just the Petrof build or something going on, so I'll get him to look at it next time. The only other grands I've played on recently that I can compare are my teacher's Mason & Hamlin Model A, and the Steinway models M and D at the church where we have lessons and recitals. On the M, the damper pedal is a little stiff, and maybe has a little too much travel, but the D is a well oiled machine, and a delight to play on. Both Steinways were rebuilds by Ralph Onesti and otherwise play and sound very nicely. So, fine tuning of my Petrof is scheduled for next month before the recital so he'll have a good couple hours to work with it, only one appointment prior to me that morning. And we'll do the half-day regulation service in August or September. Full day includes thorough cleaning of the instrument, but it's not too bad right now, and there's not too much dust, so I won't worry about the cleaning service. So Half-day should be fine to get it all dialed in. Already feeling improvements in the Mozart D Minor Fantasy I'll be playing at the recital next month. Now that I have a nice piano, I'm planning to host semi-regular soiree's with my fellow adult students; informal play-ins to show our progress and growth every few months. It's something my teacher does every once in awhile, and a couple other students wanted to know when we could have another one. While I'm not planning on having us critique each other like in a performance lab, I'd leave it open to fellow students if they'd like feedback or not.

What is your advice to me for cleaning the genuine ivory keys on my 100 year old Chickering parlor grand? I'm afraid to do anything wrong!

Excellent presentation

You don't need this "secret fingering" lol. Just practice the correct and proper fingering VERY SLOWLY, eventually you will get it right -- just like anything about any pieces, practice slowly. NOT this bullshit 3rd finger over 2nd finger, unless you want to break your fingers.

where do you get the pad for under the lid

Really nice! You played it beautifully. I bet your piano is glad to have you back! 😊

Nice piano to sleepy 😴❤

Curious but with the fibromyalgia, is there pain in the hand/wrist/arm joints that limit or interfere with wrist mobility or rotation or is it more an issue with the fingers or elbow joints? I noticed with the trills you're using a lot of finger motion, but not much wrist rotation. If it's not an issue, maybe incorporating some rotation would help to smooth out the trills. Of course, you've had far more training and experience than I have, but I'm wondering if using rotations would be a tool to help mitigate some of the pain issue in the arms or hands. My teacher teaches Goldanski/Taubman technique for hand positions/movements, so the thumb is very tip down, wrist well up over keys, and rather than bending the wrist or turning it left or right or "reaching", it's more about the rotation. Kind of like Martha Argerich's "praying mantis" look. As we say, "Stretching (or reaching) is a bad word. Don't do it." I don't always use the method quite that extremely, (also probably things ingrained from my childhood lessons and a couple applied lessons in University, and years of bad habits playing keys) so I kind of hybridize it somewhat, or keep the ideas as another tool in the toolbox. Sometimes my wrist is very up high over the key tops for certain things, sometimes it's down lower, almost Horowitzian in nature. But with trills and tremolo, I do try to use a little bit of wrist rotation more than relying strictly on the finger joints. (of course, it depends on the piece, the feeling, and what I'm trying to achieve, as always).. At least that's how I've been learning in my lessons, and the Woodcarving Partita I'm finishing polishing up has quite a bit of trilling in the last bit of the piece (also the long trill near the end of Mozart's D Minor Fantasy).

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