Come Check Out the Innards of a 200-year-old Broadwood Piano!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ส.ค. 2022
- Piano Surgeon Charles Metz shows us how to pull out the keyboard of this historic instrument made in London in 1808. He correctly diagnoses some key issues and expertly adjusts the let off point for various notes on this piano.
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My favorite aspect of your channel is your interest in all kinds of keyboard instruments and how they work, for example in this video and the recent one with the harmonium. Perhaps you might keep in the back of your mind the thought of becoming a piano technician (or harpsichord, etc.) alongside your career as a performer and perhaps teacher. My career took that path: undergraduate piano performance and pedagogy, then a few years later a year-long course in piano tuning and repair. I eventually ended up as an organist and church musician, but piano tuning and repair (organ tuning and minor repairs, too) were always part of my life.
You are very talented and clearly curious about things you encounter, always looking to learn. May it ever be so! Best wishes to you.
I also went from piano to organ but keep thinking of how wonderful this piano would sound accompanied by a reed organ since those sound like the forte piano of organs and everything would be so balanced.
This is exactly what I wish I had and what I would write my own music for. All I can do is modify a modern piano to sound like this but it will be worth it if I succeed. Modern pianos sound soulless and muddy but this one sounds so clear and balanced without bass overpowering everything as with a modern piano.
Putting all tiny hammers on a modern one gets you much closer but there's still too much sustain unless the soundboard is cracked enough to change that as was the one from the 1850s I played was when it was totally modern on the inside which was when I learned the modern piano existed not long after this one which means a lot of people must have forgotten how Beethoven sounded only 30 years after his death.
I wish pianos with this kind of sound remained available into the modern era along side modern pianos like in the mid 1800s when the piano was most diverse and you could get one that sounds like this along side a modern steinway that everything wasn't trying to be.
If this piano was accompanied by a reed organ which I think sounds like the forte piano of organs, it would sound amazing.