Quick google search is saying that there is 40 MILLION Chinese Piano Students. 7 times the US. That requires a lot of Piano's. Given the wage difference, they need less expensive instruments. I'm glad the Chinese families have this as an option for them.
I hope they give them hearing protection, have good ventilation so their work will not only pay a salary but protect so they can go home in evenings in good health
Your piano is off tune (to person tuning piano). No no, that's one of the other 16 being tuned next to me... Unbelievable. Wow. Thanks for posting this video. An eye opener. 👍🏻😀🇬🇧
Just soul-crushing work, but the manual dexterity of the balance rail punching girl is impressive. No way to do key leveling with an auto-machine. Steinway does not allow the public to record their proprietary action part producing machinery. Very interesting to see similar machines here.
What a racket... while one shouldn't expect a factory to be silent, some acoustic treatment would probably be helpful, as there is a certain sound associated with machinery that is working properly vs. that which isn't.
When I see the workshop of my piano technician here in Germany, where the master, two journeymen and two apprentices take care of my and other pianos, and how meticulously the work on the mechanics to get everything as close to perfection as possible, I somehow loose all interest in this computerized high speed manufacturing. Seeing that woman at 8:00 leveling the keys three times faster than any technicians in the shop here, I simply do not believe, that this piano is anywhere as well regulated. I am not sure if any of these workers really are piano technicians who can actually do all the stuff or if they are only trained to do one single task of the process - probably the second. Such a piano might be cheap. But I'm out.
Not to say it, but the Chinese piano market is known for low quality, almost disposable builds when you could get something so much better for a third more.
China made low quality was rooted in many people mind, but many famous brand was manufactured in China, and a Brand call Hailun was highly command th-cam.com/video/jfMCmg2dG6w/w-d-xo.html if you purchase a very low price China made whatever items but expect it to have High stranded high price product, not fair, right?
That's not entirely true. Some Chinese companies are making pianos for European companies. Zimmermann is Bechstein's "affordable" pianos and are quite good. Pearl River makes the Essex line for Steinway. Hailun makes some very nice pianos and pianos for Fuerich as well. Some Chinese pianos are low quality but others are very high quality.
@benjaminsmith2287 Understood and agreed, but it's a falicy to believe that the entry level quality of the farmed out to China builds and lines is in anyway comparable to the native company’s builds.
But they are building the right piano. The piano buyer's can afford, say because not enough money, or more precisely because most people don't understand the real cost of such a complex instrument. And, in this situation, some chineses factories are building very surprising quality for a low price, and they sell a lot of them, you only have to look that line of production, compare it with the actual line of the surviving European factories (Petrof? Bechstein? may be Steinway is an exception, because the name). And that is the way to produce the best piano in the future, I don't think they need more than 20 years
Look into Hailun and Pearl River. Their craftmanship is fine. American pianos aren't mass produced and neither are European pianos. Some European makes, prestigious ones, are using Chinese manufacturers for their middle lines. The only mass produced pianos are Chinese, Korean and Japanese, with Japanese being the highest (from Yamaha and Kawai) but to say Chinese pianos have poor craftmanship is a dated notion. They go from not so great to excellent. Bechstein and Steinway would not build some of their lines in China if Chinese pianos were all trash.
sorry but they aren't worth to buy. buy proper piano unless it takes more. something I learned from books or lessons to regulate upright action didn't work with these.
Tired of hearing about inferior quality and how there junk, it's the furthest from the Truth I guess if it doesn't have Steinway on it people think it's junk.
Quick google search is saying that there is 40 MILLION Chinese Piano Students. 7 times the US. That requires a lot of Piano's. Given the wage difference, they need less expensive instruments. I'm glad the Chinese families have this as an option for them.
07:20 This is the first time I have seen the making of piano keys. There aren't any anywhere else
I hope they give them hearing protection, have good ventilation so their work will not only pay a salary but protect so they can go home in evenings in good health
This is equally amazing and terrifying.
Your piano is off tune (to person tuning piano). No no, that's one of the other 16 being tuned next to me... Unbelievable. Wow.
Thanks for posting this video. An eye opener. 👍🏻😀🇬🇧
Just soul-crushing work, but the manual dexterity of the balance rail punching girl is impressive. No way to do key leveling with an auto-machine.
Steinway does not allow the public to record their proprietary action part producing machinery. Very interesting to see similar machines here.
amazing mass production 👍
The background noise is amazing hahahaha
What a racket... while one shouldn't expect a factory to be silent, some acoustic treatment would probably be helpful, as there is a certain sound associated with machinery that is working properly vs. that which isn't.
I think these pianos must be Beethoven's 5th simphony proof.
Very productive workers for mass producing Piano.
When I see the workshop of my piano technician here in Germany, where the master, two journeymen and two apprentices take care of my and other pianos, and how meticulously the work on the mechanics to get everything as close to perfection as possible, I somehow loose all interest in this computerized high speed manufacturing. Seeing that woman at 8:00 leveling the keys three times faster than any technicians in the shop here, I simply do not believe, that this piano is anywhere as well regulated.
I am not sure if any of these workers really are piano technicians who can actually do all the stuff or if they are only trained to do one single task of the process - probably the second. Such a piano might be cheap. But I'm out.
Nice
How do they stay sane?
That bass string at .54's got a nasty looking kink in it.
Ótimo trabalho
Imagine working in this noise factory 8 hours straight, and come back home to hear your children practice piano :D
in China its 12 hours
Not to say it, but the Chinese piano market is known for low quality, almost disposable builds when you could get something so much better for a third more.
China made low quality was rooted in many people mind, but many famous brand was manufactured in China, and a Brand call Hailun was highly command th-cam.com/video/jfMCmg2dG6w/w-d-xo.html
if you purchase a very low price China made whatever items but expect it to have High stranded high price product, not fair, right?
That's why there are many world class pianists from China. You're a typical ignorant would be pianist.
That's not entirely true. Some Chinese companies are making pianos for European companies. Zimmermann is Bechstein's "affordable" pianos and are quite good. Pearl River makes the Essex line for Steinway. Hailun makes some very nice pianos and pianos for Fuerich as well. Some Chinese pianos are low quality but others are very high quality.
@benjaminsmith2287 Understood and agreed, but it's a falicy to believe that the entry level quality of the farmed out to China builds and lines is in anyway comparable to the native company’s builds.
But they are building the right piano. The piano buyer's can afford, say because not enough money, or more precisely because most people don't understand the real cost of such a complex instrument. And, in this situation, some chineses factories are building very surprising quality for a low price, and they sell a lot of them, you only have to look that line of production, compare it with the actual line of the surviving European factories (Petrof? Bechstein? may be Steinway is an exception, because the name). And that is the way to produce the best piano in the future, I don't think they need more than 20 years
Wait till u see how they do it in Indonesia….
As my Mammy always said 'you get what you pay for'
Beijing xinghai factory
Would NEVER buy a Chinese made piano. The craftsmanship is in no way close to American or European. The video proves this.
Look into Hailun and Pearl River. Their craftmanship is fine. American pianos aren't mass produced and neither are European pianos. Some European makes, prestigious ones, are using Chinese manufacturers for their middle lines. The only mass produced pianos are Chinese, Korean and Japanese, with Japanese being the highest (from Yamaha and Kawai) but to say Chinese pianos have poor craftmanship is a dated notion. They go from not so great to excellent. Bechstein and Steinway would not build some of their lines in China if Chinese pianos were all trash.
American made pianos are shite mate
@@SubaruAndRem That’s positive.
Hailun is a partially hand crafted piano of superior quality.. made with some of the highest quality German parts
carrément angoissant
Pourquoi ?
All pianos have no brands?
Trash pianos -- amazing workers
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sorry but they aren't worth to buy. buy proper piano unless it takes more. something I learned from books or lessons to regulate upright action didn't work with these.
Tired of hearing about inferior quality and how there junk, it's the furthest from the Truth I guess if it doesn't have Steinway on it people think it's junk.
Cheap production & material = ultra bright, annoying & ear piercing piano sounds.