Thanks for your positive feedback! We hope the instrument will accompany you for a long time. Wishing you great joy and pleasure with your piano, best regards from Schimmel Pianos!
Il y avait un piano Schimmel dans la salle de musique de mon collège, le son et le toucher étaient incomparables. Hélas la salle nous était interdite et il fallait ruser pour jouer. Et dans ces années-là (années 60 ) les heures de "colle" tombaient pour un rien, même pour avoir tenté de jouer un fragment d'Etude de Chopin ou de ces "Scènes de la forêt".
Hello! Mineral key tops are used for all flat keys on Schimmel instruments. These specially developed key tops offer a more sensitive touch for pianists and are "glare-free" thanks to the matt surface 🎹👑
Hello Andy! We are not quite sure what you are seeing. If you mean the black spot on the piano lid, these are the piano cabinet bumpers. They are found on every upright or grand piano to protect the lid when it is closed. Greetings from the Schimmel Pianos Factory 🎹👑
Absolutely!!! It's a cockroach that flew all the way from Pasadena, TX, USA - just to be in that awesome piano and in this awesome video!!! In Pasadena, we have the most cultured and musically discriminating cockroaches in the entire world!
Hello Jacob Neal! Ratko Delorko is playing the Prelude op. 28, No. 15 by Frédéric Chopin ("Raindrop" Prelude). It is the middle part and therefore somewhat more difficult to recognize than the main melody at the beginning and end of this prelude 👍🎹
Pianos are such wonderful and complicated masterpieces of design. And tiny details can alter its sound and playability, greatly... But I do not think, that hand crafting is the best choice at all manufacturing phase. E.g.: the pin board can benefit from machines, as those can calculate and create the holes with greater precision. This can help to create more crisp notes and avoid muddy sound. But some parts can be only done by hand, or the sound produced by the piano becomes lifeless. Such as voicing or the wiring of the bass strings... While other steps can be done both ways, as they need several repetitions. Doing those first by machine, then by hand can save time and effort of true experts. Such as polishing, tuning or the creation of the action. These steps can be done roughly by machine while a human expert can do the last couple of, refining stages. Either way, pianos are one of the best inventions on the world!
Thank you very much for your comment, with which we absolutely agree! That is why we at Schimmel Pianos use machines wherever accuracy to the millimetre is required and check every detail through the attentive eyes of our master craftsmen who, with a great deal of care and experience, create the beautiful, balanced sound of a Schimmel piano 🙌🎹👑
Does anyone know the name of the piece he was playing at "9:25" ......Please do tell if you know :) **EDIT: I think I found the answer: PRELUDE OP 28 NO 15 IN D-FLAT MAJOR "RAINDROP"
I love Schimmel, but damn: why must they all in black? Can you imagine a violin in black??? A black violin looks as ugly as a black piano. It's the same dark colour
Thank you for your comment! The colour of the instrument is indeed very much a matter of taste. While many still prefer the classic high-gloss black piano, we also have many models with special woods or white pianos. Have a look at the Schimmel Classic series, you will find many beautiful variations there. Musical greetings from the Schimmel factory in Braunschweig
Tension has very little to do with enhancing sound amplification. Form stiffness (curvature) does. It changes the natural frequency of the board at which it resonates. Tension is a myth. Tension is a by-product of curvature, but it is not so that tension is the main goal. The correct curvature , thickness, board dimensions and rib spacing determine the natural frequency of the sound board. Not the tension. Compare it to a singing saw: the higher the curvature, the stiffer the blade, the higher its natural frequency and consequently the tone. But much too many parrot the tension story, because they heard it somewhere and they did not think for themselves. But the story is wrong. Anyhow, one can build the perfect piano without knowing why it is perfect. It is called practical experience by and trial and error. Some think that the more tension the better, but once the compression exceeds the load bearing capacity of the wood, the sound board will be essentially destroyed from within in humid conditions. And when humidity falls, we will see cracks. And after some time, the piano sounds like it is made from cardboard.
Where is someone to rattle this thing. I am a Steinway man and I like a demo where someone can show what the bass end can do. The grand sounds ordinary to me. Get someone who can really test drive this thing.
A great idea! Thank you. We will be working on recording a demo of our various series in the near future and posting it here. On TH-cam, you can already find some excellent tests of our instruments, for example by Merriam Music, who have tested individual models from all of our series and even compared them to one another. Musical greetings from the Schimmel factory in Braunschweig 🎹👍
I listen to Merriam all the time. I purchased the VSL library for Bosendorfer and steinway. If they review you I will pay particular attention to what's on offer. Many thanks for your reply. :)
I love seeing and hearing that these instruments are still created by hands, ears, and eyes. Beautiful pianos
I think a piano that responds to the touch back to you and you feel like one , is a wonderful instrument.
I hope to have a Schimmel someday. The best.
Thank you very much for your kind words! 🙏🎹
Fantastic video!!! Congratulations Schimmel
Enjoyed this so much!
Any thoughts on old Schimmel uprights from the 1960s?
Thanks for your efforts
I own a wonderful schimmel k169 and it’s such a joy to play it. Thanks a lot
Thanks for your positive feedback! We hope the instrument will accompany you for a long time. Wishing you great joy and pleasure with your piano, best regards from Schimmel Pianos!
Could you comment on the relationship between Schimmel and Ritmüller? Thanks!
I own a Schimmel 120 Royal - sounds, feels and looks beautiful. It gets lots of compliments. :)
A lovely instrument! Congratulations on your choice. We wish you much happiness with your Schimmel piano 🎹🙌
I want to know how my piano plugin is made
I play straight from my laptop
Its perplexing
Il y avait un piano Schimmel dans la salle de musique de mon collège, le son et le toucher étaient incomparables. Hélas la salle nous était interdite et il fallait ruser pour jouer. Et dans ces années-là (années 60 ) les heures de "colle" tombaient pour un rien, même pour avoir tenté de jouer un fragment d'Etude de Chopin ou de ces "Scènes de la forêt".
What do you use for the white keys tops?
Hello! Mineral key tops are used for all flat keys on Schimmel instruments. These specially developed key tops offer a more sensitive touch for pianists and are "glare-free" thanks to the matt surface 🎹👑
I see a Schimmel SP 189 grand for sale. What does the SP stand for?
SP stands for the former series name "Salon Professional", greetings from Schimmel Pianos Braunschweig
Could you please let me know, where can one also find the German version (original?) on youtube? Thank you!
Hello Isabell, you can find the German video about Schimmel Pianos here: th-cam.com/video/uhCtLJ_Idfo/w-d-xo.html
@@SchimmelPianosOfficial Great, thank you for your quick answer!
All I wanted for Christmas was a Schimmel K230 7.5 ft. grand.
I got a Seiko wristwatch. Santa is not wealthy, apparently.
Was that a big bug crawling inside piano starts at 4:52 of video ?
Hello Andy! We are not quite sure what you are seeing. If you mean the black spot on the piano lid, these are the piano cabinet bumpers. They are found on every upright or grand piano to protect the lid when it is closed. Greetings from the Schimmel Pianos Factory 🎹👑
It is a reflection of something inside . I saw it too. On the far right.
Absolutely!!! It's a cockroach that flew all the way from Pasadena, TX, USA - just to be in that awesome piano and in this awesome video!!!
In Pasadena, we have the most cultured and musically discriminating cockroaches in the entire world!
Does any one know what piece Ratko Delorko (The man with the white hair wearing glasses) is playing? I can’t for the life of me remember what it is.
Hello Jacob Neal! Ratko Delorko is playing the Prelude op. 28, No. 15 by Frédéric Chopin ("Raindrop" Prelude). It is the middle part and therefore somewhat more difficult to recognize than the main melody at the beginning and end of this prelude 👍🎹
😻😻😻😻
Pianos are such wonderful and complicated masterpieces of design. And tiny details can alter its sound and playability, greatly...
But I do not think, that hand crafting is the best choice at all manufacturing phase. E.g.: the pin board can benefit from machines, as those can calculate and create the holes with greater precision. This can help to create more crisp notes and avoid muddy sound.
But some parts can be only done by hand, or the sound produced by the piano becomes lifeless. Such as voicing or the wiring of the bass strings...
While other steps can be done both ways, as they need several repetitions. Doing those first by machine, then by hand can save time and effort of true experts. Such as polishing, tuning or the creation of the action. These steps can be done roughly by machine while a human expert can do the last couple of, refining stages.
Either way, pianos are one of the best inventions on the world!
Thank you very much for your comment, with which we absolutely agree! That is why we at Schimmel Pianos use machines wherever accuracy to the millimetre is required and check every detail through the attentive eyes of our master craftsmen who, with a great deal of care and experience, create the beautiful, balanced sound of a Schimmel piano 🙌🎹👑
Jar Jar is the Key to all of this 9:27
Does anyone know the name of the piece he was playing at "9:25" ......Please do tell if you know :) **EDIT: I think I found the answer: PRELUDE OP 28 NO 15 IN D-FLAT MAJOR "RAINDROP"
Exactly! It's the Raindrop Prelude by Chopin 🎹👍
I own a Wurlitzer.
Please make narrow pianos 😢
9:27 Is that george lucas?!
I love Schimmel, but damn: why must they all in black? Can you imagine a violin in black??? A black violin looks as ugly as a black piano. It's the same dark colour
Thank you for your comment! The colour of the instrument is indeed very much a matter of taste. While many still prefer the classic high-gloss black piano, we also have many models with special woods or white pianos. Have a look at the Schimmel Classic series, you will find many beautiful variations there.
Musical greetings from the Schimmel factory in Braunschweig
Tension has very little to do with enhancing sound amplification. Form stiffness (curvature) does. It changes the natural frequency of the board at which it resonates. Tension is a myth. Tension is a by-product of curvature, but it is not so that tension is the main goal. The correct curvature , thickness, board dimensions and rib spacing determine the natural frequency of the sound board. Not the tension. Compare it to a singing saw: the higher the curvature, the stiffer the blade, the higher its natural frequency and consequently the tone. But much too many parrot the tension story, because they heard it somewhere and they did not think for themselves. But the story is wrong. Anyhow, one can build the perfect piano without knowing why it is perfect. It is called practical experience by and trial and error. Some think that the more tension the better, but once the compression exceeds the load bearing capacity of the wood, the sound board will be essentially destroyed from within in humid conditions. And when humidity falls, we will see cracks. And after some time, the piano sounds like it is made from cardboard.
Where is someone to rattle this thing.
I am a Steinway man and I like a demo where someone can show what the bass end can do. The grand sounds ordinary to me.
Get someone who can really test drive this thing.
A great idea! Thank you. We will be working on recording a demo of our various series in the near future and posting it here.
On TH-cam, you can already find some excellent tests of our instruments, for example by Merriam Music, who have tested individual models from all of our series and even compared them to one another.
Musical greetings from the Schimmel factory in Braunschweig 🎹👍
@@SchimmelPianosOfficial Excellent. I will look for it. Thanks...
I listen to Merriam all the time. I purchased the VSL library for Bosendorfer and steinway. If they review you I will pay particular attention to what's on offer.
Many thanks for your reply. :)