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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 พ.ค. 2024
- The Brook Street Band's Carolyn Gibley shows you inside the harpsichord and explains how it works. Illustrated with pieces by Rameau and Maurice Greene
00:00 Rameau: La Joyeuse
01:12 introduction to Carolyn's harpsichord
01:40 Piano action
02:46 inside the harpsichord
03:53 harpsichord plectrum and dampers
04:35 how the strings are plucked
05:17 levers and 4' strings
06:06 tone and volume
07:04 set-up for next piece explained
07:57 short piece by Maurice Greene
Recorded as part of the „Brook Street Band at home“ series
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One of my dreams is to own my very own harpsichord, they just sound so beautiful and majestic.
I have several which I will happily sell to you!
@@philipbay1548 Buying a harpsichord isn't the only issue. I would need space for it. I'm 16 man I live with my parents
You not only need space for it it requires maintenance. Sometimes the replacement of a set of old plastic jacks. I have an old harpsichord that's not quite in playing condition and I don't know if I want to try to sell it or refurbish it. It needs a whole new set of jacks and it has one 8 ft + one 4 ft set of strings I want to turn it into two 8-foot and the range isn't really big enough but I can't do anything about that except get or make a different one. I want to make a tangentenflugel it was a type of early piano action
Look up spinetts - Mini Harpsichord : ) All the best!
Thank you for sharing how a Harsichord works, thats really neat that it plucks the strings.
Thank you, and glad you enjoyed the film.
It originated from an early zither that was just strings stretched over a box plucked with two feathers held in the hand. They created a keyboard mechanism to make playing easier and the instrument had no real official name or music at first but played along with other stringed instruments and rolled the cords like they did. Traditional continuo music is based on that, taking the chord structure of the piece and arpeggiating it
Lovely to see you and hear your own harpsichord. Thank you!
Thank you for listening Liz. Do keep checking in for more films!
Thank you for the great explanation!
You're very welcome!
Nice video,blak keys looks nice in contrast to the # keys😊
Just found this! An excellent introduction, exactly what I've been looking for- thank you.
Glad it was helpful, and thank you for watching!
Amazing explanation of how a harpsichord works, thank you.
You're very welcome!
Expertly done! Very nice
That is a beautiful harpsichord! I’d like to own one someday!
Thank you Eoin. We're very lucky to know Alan Gotto, who made this wonderful instrument for Carolyn Gibley, and who looks after our harpsichord needs when we're recording, or working in East Anglia.
Take heart! My inquiries seem to indicate that a harpsichord is less eye-wateringly expensive than a piano of similar quality.
When I was a callow youth, I used to think I was clever and 'edgy' by professing my liking for these left-field pluckers. Fifty years later, I still love harpsichords - and all their cousins - and I long ago realised that I am neither clever nor edgy; they're just wonderful instruments worthy of celebration.
Nice
Thank you!
You play beautifully! And a nice description of how the harpsichord works. I always thought the instrument had a plucking sound, but had no idea how that sound was produced.
Glad you liked it!
thank you so much,very professional explanation and thank you for lovely music
Thank you Robert!
How enlightening! And spot on playing!
Thank you!
Great video! The short piece by Greene is very nice, how can I find the sheet music?
What was the Maurice Greene song called?
🌹👌👍🏆 Super 🙏🙏🙏🙏
thank you!
i was wondering how this worked.
i was surprised that the strings really were plucked (they sounded like they were plucked to me but i pushed that thought aside since i didn't know how it actually worked or how that would work)
I wonder what the strings are made from
The strings are a mixture of brass and iron, the brass being used for the bass strings
Is Maurice Greene a baroque composer? His music sound baroque but, at the same time, very modern.
Maurice Greene's dates are 1696 - 1755 so, yes, he is from the baroque period.
@@thebrookstreetband3664 Thanks! He reminds me of Thomas Arne.
@@thebrookstreetband3664 Thanks! He reminds me of Thomas Arne.
Hannibal was on to something
So is it safe to say that if one can play the piano, that person can also play the harpsichord?
It's a very different technique, but yes the notes are same same. Harpsichord keys are narrower than piano keys and are not weighted, so feel very different.
Yes the feel is very different. I played nothing but a harpsichord for years and the mistake notes are just as loud as the notes you want. On a piano a mistaken note is a lot of times softer but on the harpsichord they would ring right out just as loud as everything else and it makes me scared to make a mistake so it made me play a lot better. I play piano presently but there's so much effort involved in throwing the Hammers and kind of slamming the key that you don't have with the harpsichord which saves your energy and focus for the music.
Interesting... I knew harpsichords plucked the string but I never knew how the jacks worked. I imagine back in the 1700s there were an awful lot of harpsichord plectrums that broke or snapped off given the natural materials. I guess "harpsichord repairman" was a good job to have. LOL
Yes, guess it was, and still is!
Johann Sebastian Bach had drawers filled with crowfeather's to replace the plectra and they didn't break too fast. People brought him crow feathers when they would find a dead one or kill one. The traditional little wire type spring for the back of the Jack was made out of the hair of a wild boar and a very similar substitute is fishing line
@@Lifecomesfromwithin thank you for this information. And of course today, plectra are often made from delrin
@thebrookstreetband3664 yes very true I used Delrin plectra also. Bach used to pick the largest Crow quills that would fit and cut them almost flat at the end so they had as much strength as possible and I think they are harder than Delrin by a little bit that way. I want to get a wooden Jack replacement that uses Crow quills on my harpsichord someday
Bach may have helped other people with their harpsichords like a repairman but most people pretty much had to tune it and maintain it themselves. Part of owning a harpsichord was knowing how to tune it restring it and make your plectra. Bach would sometimes ask the maker for help being Rucker's,
Great video, but I would explain why the two 8' registers sound differently. Nothing is said about the coupling mechanism or the knobs, and how it would sound with the two 8's together, and then with the 4', and how to dialogue between the two keyboards. A mention of the Goldbergs might also be beneficial here. No explanation of the buff stop was given. Your instrument has a beautiful sound it has probably matured over time.
Thank you for your suggestions. All good ideas, and perhaps for another video, going into more detail for a more specialist audience.
Lovely video and music.
One little suggestion: it would have been nicer if your voice were recorded a bit louder.
Hello, why couldn't you Try Remaking A Daddy Grand Piano by putting on 88 Tuning Forks like what you did on an Upright Piano,
Please do the Same Thing on a Daddy Grand Piano For Most of us TH-camrs, It will be a much Better Idea For us so we can Try and See
and Hear It Thank You.
horrible color
Modern reproduction makers are into a lot of paint these days which is semi traditional. What would you prefer? If you put together a harpsichord kit you could finish it however you want
@@Lifecomesfromwithin i prefer the rainbow colors.
@@kenansari well it is rainbow colors actually all it's missing is green
@@kenansari I prefer the look of the original Virginal of Queen Elizabeth the first