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Matthew!!! That was Sooo---emjoyable! Now i want get out my copy of Maple Leaf Rag and try to re-learn it. I timed you, and you played a steady 108 bpm. Perfectly moderato! Thank you so much, and peace out yourself! 🎶☮️🎵🎶

It's a Fortepiano!

Why was i the first to give you a like you deserve?

Excellent

hell yeahhh

Great playing and composition!

Brilliant. You are forgiven for the errors - we never noticed ! You did a LOAD better than I could ! Take care 🙂

It is actually the type of instrument which Mozart and Beethoven used at least in his early days. It needs a bit of tuning It is actually a piano calling it a fortepiano is commonly said by recording companies for an historic piano. I like to hear what you are playing sounds fun .It is made by Thomas Wolff

I think it actually is a harpsichord. It sounds nothing like a fortepiano.

Brilliant rendition! Athough I cannot play at this level quite yet, I aspire to. But it sounds BEAUTIFUL in that pianoforte!

Personally, I like ragtime played more slowly, like this. Racing though rag pieces you lose the intricacies and wonderful syncopations.

That was wonderful. Once you got going I loved it.

He looks like shaggy

no hate but no need to rush this song

Sorry for the long intro. The song starts at 3:50 if you wish to skip straight to it.

Beautiful sounds Excellent performance! Great Like 3 From Japan 🗾 New friend 🔔 Have a good day

It’s an early forte piano. The type of instrument J.C. Bach, Haydn, or Mozart might have used. As far as Scott Joplin rags go, slow down! It’s not a race to the finish.

Very nice, apart from the brief reset. I loved the deliberate tempo you chose, I've always read that Joplin found ragtime to be fairly low-quality bawdy house entertainment, that the house pianists would compete to see who could race through faster with no regard for the musicality. He decided to try and compose top-quality rags - and OMG, mission accomplished! - and he added the famous note to all his sheet music that ragtime should never be played fast. He was referring specifically to the lowbrow showing off, but even now, when I hear someone playing ragtime at a moderate and respectful pace, one that gives the listener time to process the emotion in the phrases, I imagine Joplin nodding appreciately. His pieces obviously HAVE emotions, where the original barroom rags only had one emotion - beer. lol Thanks for sharing the video!

Hi Matthew, thanks for showing off the cool-AF historical keyboards! Maple Leaf is a tune for the ages and that vintage keyboard, whatever it is, gave it a distinct flavour. I agree that it pairs well with that keyboard - it made me think of salmon with white (actually pink) zinfandel, no less. lol Looking forward to more videos!

Maple Leaf Rag if the composer notes said “play as fast as you can without regard for consistency or dynamics”.

haydn would have fainted, mozart would have laughed and beethoven would have taken notes

Great song!

Good job bro

yeah its a forte piano

Awesome playing

Scott Joplin put "Not fast" on the music. I have trouble with it; it's harder than some Chopin.

Thank you.

You play that Joplin tune very well and that piano makes a honky talk sound like you said. It had a harsh to my ear but a real novelty and Interesting. The best I can find on that instrument is that it is simply called a piano. That’s it. The reason being is that the key colors on all piano’s at Mozarts time and before all had the key colors reversed. So the reversed key color does not indicate what that instrument is. If that instrument has real hammers and you can produce piano and forte sounds by how hard you strike the keys then that is a piano. Albeit a very old piano or a replica of a very old piano. Unique sound.

Great 👍😎

In italian that instrument is called "clavicembalo"

Obviously you can play the piano but it was way too fast and quite sloppy. Ragtime isn’t and shouldn’t be a race to the finish. Slow down so the listener can appreciate all the intricacies of one of the best ever ragtime pieces.

excellent

Sounds great!

So cool!

Scott Joplin was born in Texarkana..so was i

Sounds amazing! Definetly has a nice saloon vibe about it!

This is a very entertaining video and that instrument has a very interesting sound!

The instrument on the left is a piano akin to those played by Chopin, and Liszt. The instrument on the far right is a forte piano (sound like a Viennese style fortepiano, akin to what Mozart and Beethoven would have known and played). Approach it with a lighter touch, the action is shallower (meaning that it takes significantly less force to produce a forte dynamic).

The instrument on the far-right is an actual fortepiano, another example of which may be found in this performance of the six-voice fugue from J.S. Bach's "An Offering of Music": ua-cam.com/video/fjxKy3pP41w/v-deo.html . It is speculated that the entire collection under that title was in fact composed for such an instrument, as according to the composer himself, he was asked by King Frederick II of Prussia during a visit Bach had paid him to improvise a fugue on a theme which the Frederick himself (being a noted flutist in his own right) would provide. Bach at first improvised one of three voices - preserved by Bach as the opening fugue in the collection, and then was asked by the King to try his hand at one for six, which is what wound up becoming the focal point of the entire collection. This same fortepiano is what Beethoven and Mozart would've known, in fact WERE you to hold down the sustaining-lever on the one you just played here, you'd get the proper effect Beethoven was looking for in his Piano Sonata XIV, Mvt. I. The sort of piano on the far-left didn't come around until AFTER Beethoven's passing. Quite honestly, I'm surprised a true fortepiano has enough keys for Scott Joplin's works. Joplin quite possibly was more familiar with the instrument on the far-left, which, if you hadn't noticed, is "missing" the top three keys. If you're at all familiar with a composition such as L.M. Gottschalk's "The Banjo", you'll notice that, towards the middle of the piece, there are a series of massive jumps indicated by ottava lines. You'll notice that the third of each jump has no ottava line. While such a jump 8va would indeed be possible on one of today's pianos, in the case of the far-left instrument, it is very much impossible.

Isn't that a fortepiano?

One of my favorite rags, and you execute it nicely. Keep up the good work, Matthew.

Nice job, Matthew, and thanks for the tour of those beautiful instruments

beautifully played, just perfect timing and syncopation! This sounds a lot like Joshua Rifkin's recordings, a tiny bit less polished, but with the same authority, which I think are the best Joplin interpretations ever.

rag's such a great genre!

Good job. Great song.

Looks like a Epiphone Inspired by Gibson. I have one with 009. I really like that guitar.

Great impression of Skinner. And one of the few reenactments to keep in the musical bit in the middle. Most always leave that part out. Well done!

10/10 impression

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