Bösendorfer Pianos - What a great big, beautiful piano!
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- Опубліковано 13 лют 2011
- Bösendorfer promotional video. Perhaps the world's ultimate grand piano. Hand-made pianos made in Vienna, Austria. This video shows the manufacturing process of the legendary piano company. Robert Lowrey's Piano Experts is a proud dealer of Bosendorfer pianos. Visit http:www.robertlowrey.com for more details. You will never see more pianos!
The best piano I have ever performed on is the Bosendorfer Imperial. It is the greatest piano ever made, bar none. Nothing else comes close to the tone, responsiveness, subtlety, and resonance. Bosendorfer is the Platonic Ideal of the piano.
THE ROLLS ROYCE OF PIANOS.
I love watching great craftsmen at work, producing something fantastic. Like watching a great pianist :)
I have played one of these fantastic pianos at Exeter Cathedral for a Christmas concert. Absolutely amazing
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It's great to learn history and how they make Bosendorfer pianos. Thank you for sharing.
Bosendorfer makes many different pianos and I can't speak for the action in all of them, but the flagship 290 Imperial (9'6" full 8 octave keyboard) has a much lighter action or touch than the Steinway Concert D. It's like night and day different.
As a classical pianist, my favorite piano is and will always be a Bosendorfer. I love the richness, the deep bass, and the beautiful sound it produces. Knowing that they are handmade in Austria adds to the majestic quality. In college, I practiced with a Yamaha (which is a really good piano) and performed on a Bosendorfer. That's why I fancy Romantic Era music, like Schumann, Chopin, and LIszt. The Bosendorfer makes their music shine.
Fascinating to watch how something is made.
A very outstanding human and machine work of skill and effort.
And she plays it so well! A match made in heaven, a great piano being played by one of the world's most talented pianists.
It is excellent that Bösendorfer has chosen JAZZ for this demonstration in part. Piano music comes in a great variety of styles, and all of them deserve respect. Pianos are not made only for classical music. Classical music is one genre of music. I can remember the great Oscar Peterson playing on a Bösendorfer piano, but there´s many better audio clips available than the one presented here, which the sound doesn´t do justice to the piano nor to Oscar Peterson.
Here's the original performance of the most famous jazz piece ever written, "Take 5" by Dave Brubeck: ua-cam.com/video/PHdU5sHigYQ/v-deo.html
Dihelson Mendonca Interesting you should say this. While I prefer Steinway for classical music, I prefer Bösendorfer for jazz.
I am sorry but Rolls Royce are the Bosendorfer of cars !! BEAUTIFUL !!!
@Ror shach Clever.
Beautiful sound and amazing skill and craftsmanship.
I loved this video!
Now owned by Yamaha!
Love their sound, but too overpriced right now.
Whenever I see a Bösendorfer I never feel worthy enough to play on it ;-;
Yeah, I noticed how the y blurred the video just enough to obscure the name above the Middle C :)
wonderful. thank you
i love you Tori!
I bet this is the best piano in the world....
I live on them. Have done so for decades!!!!! XOXO...
@AlejandroSanAntonio ~ YES!
During a summer holiday with my future in-laws (many moons ago) I did have the chance to play on their Boesendorfer. An experience which is carved in my mind for ever more. Now I have a digital Yamaha, due to lack of space (and money ;o) ~ feeling lucky to have a piano at all. greetings from Canada!
What an immaculate instrument !!!
Pretty incredible
This instrument rings in your ear like nothing else. The resonance and rich overtone is absolutely otherworldly.
I was priviledged to see the factory back in the summer of '79 and was quite impressed. At the time Kimball owned Bosendorfer and a hybrid piano that was around at the time was the Viennese edition Kimball grand. The narrator failed to mention that the tonal quality of this make is in no small way influenced by the outer rim constructed of spruce. And the inner rim has a "brick wall" kind of construction which is unique but not associated the tonal property.
Wish it were that simple. I think the best advise is "whatever piano sounds best to your own ears." Also, no one seems to mention the extra effort to bring a Steinway or Bosendorfer to it's full potential. They are both more temperamental than a Yamaha, since they need a great piano tuner to bring out their best, and they need tuning at least every other month, compared to a Yamaha which sounds great right out of the box and only needs tuning every 6-12 months.
All this talk about the Capital of Classical Music and then all of a sudden it's this jazz soundtrack?
Would be nice to hear some Schubert, Schumann or even Beethoven. One dimension I like about the Bösendorfer is the depth in the tonality and playing big chords in the deeper range softly and steady really touches you deep within the base of your body. Bösendorfer is more within my taste than Steinway. I was never a huge fan of Steinway. ;)
When she comments about the outer rim being hand forced around the inner rim showing the few guys doing it and then stating that's something that accounts for the high quality of the Bosendorfer sound, what a crock! Steinway does the same thing, it's simply bending that outer rim and that fastening it with a caul. It's the INNER rim that's different.
If only this was part 1 of 200.
More!! More!! More!!
I'd never even heard of Bösendorfer before today.
I don't understand how these sublime pianos are presented here with such a horrid music!
My professor actually preforms and records baroque and classical era music on a yamaha because of it's brightness and precision. Fazioli is a great piano, if you have a liking to very intricate and treble-heavy music, it's very good in baroque sequences. Steinway has a very good overall sound, but Bosendorfer takes the cake in a full, rich sound. It's kind of like comparing a 6 string guitar to a 12-string guitar. Then again, i'm a romantic era player, so i have a bosendorfer bias.
Very nicely done! Wonderful wide-ranging look at the instrument and it's many varied admirers.
All the way to Tori Amos's deeply felt relationship with the instrument.
And if you get a chance to hear Valentina Lisitsa on one you're in for a treat!
Yes, what a big beautiful piano. Bosendorfer is one of my top three favorite pianos.
If your in the Seattle, Portland, Or Eastern Washington area Call me up to tune your Bosendorfer. Mathisen Fine Tuning
Amazing! If only the Gibson Guitar Company took the same care truly made their guitars by hand.....then, they would really have a great instrument.
And since you made that comment five years ago, they have NOT granted your (and everybody elses...) wishes, to put it mildly. What's happened, and is continuing to happen, with Gibson is a complete and utter farse. They'll end up as a mere stencil brand for some Chinese conglomerate soon, unless something akin to a miracle occurs. Steinway is likely to go the same way, 'cause they seem to have been at the Gibson School Of Business Practice as of late...
Valentina Lisitsa selection of pianos! That is saying much!
Cant you find better and more inspiring music for the first section of this video?
The best piano ever made!!! :-)
Bösendorfer is quiet perfect.
You mean that at 7:32 the guy picks up the light-weight red plastic/wood prototype part and places it on the desk on top of a CAD drawing of the internals of the piano?
The video talks about product development at that point.
Wow.
Just wondering if Bosendorfer have ever considered building pianos with glass (!) sounding boards. A new piano builder in the Netherlands does, and they sound marvelous!
Indeed, the Börsendorfer Piano is equivalent to Rolls Royce vehicle. 👍👍👍
prices of grand bosendorfer pianos
The difference is the 4 wheels.
Bosendorfer is the best piano!!!
I love the beautiful round tone of Bosendorfer pianos. There's nohing quite like it. I've never had an opportunity to actually play one so I wonder if the action is as tough as a Steinway. Yamaha has an easier action but a much brighter tone I don't like as much. I know when I've played a Steinway concert grand I was amazed how wonderful even the simplest composition sounds. The tone is so rich and the resonance so big. *sigh* One day I'll get an amazing piano . . .
Steinways can sound different from one another. I've played over 50 of them. Some sound rich and resonant, some sound brittle and harsh, some sound mellow. Yamaha has all sorts of tones as well. The S Yamahas are quite mellow. The Cs can be voiced medium or bright. The new CF and CX are all together different, colorful with different types of tones per the dynamics, and they vary from one another as well. Bosendorfer has the pre-VC rounded tone and a more projecting resonant tone in the VCs. They also change quite a lot vs. touch. So, they too vary and can be voiced mellow or dark to fairly bright. Piano tone has a lot to do with who voiced it and if it is older, how it was played and maintained.
I will take the V-Piano Grand and no problems with humidity and easy to transport
to my performance.
When I get one of them - exactly like this one ,290 Imperial model -the History of Music never will be the same.YAN AYRTON
“Quando eu tiver um - exatamente como este (modelo 290) a historia da Musica jamais sera a mesma.” YAN AYRTON
bosendorfir to me is the blend of steinway and fazioli which makes it to the best piano in the world. its worth the price. if i every get rich enought ill buy one
Haha, this is great. I just came back here after some months. I was obviously being sarcastic, and actually own a Kawaii myself *giggles*
There's also a Hindsberg in the living room, a model which is 100% copy of Steinway B. Even though every piano brand copied Steinway of course, some Danish brothers who've worked at the Steinway factories took it to a whole new level.. ^^
But I might sell the Kawaii sometime and aquire a Bösie, there's just something unique about Bösie sound...
I am not bothered by the jazz background sound very much, but it is obviously too loud.
Does anybody know where I'd be able to find a recording of the jazz composition being played at 2:51?
@Sword1479 SHE WAS TALKING ABOUT COMPOSERS WHO LIVED IN VIENNA. Chopin didn't live in Vienna.
Me too!!
And why not? Eminent jazz pianists love Bosendorfer too.
Wien, the centre of world classical music; Please play some
Well it's like me being American, and not really fancying Steinways. Bösendorfer will always be number 1 to me.
If the Bosendorfer is the 'Rolls Royce" of pianos*(as stated by the late Victor Borge), the Fazioli is the "Lamborghini." But I wonder how many others posting here really know of the Fazioli anyway.
I'd take a Steinway from the Steinway Bank anyday.
Herodotus3
Amen to that.
I've only played one of each and I'm certainly no great pianist, but I have to say each was amazing in its own way.
The Bösendorfer felt as if it were chiseled out of a single piece of granite-not that it was hard to play-not at all-but as hard as I played (Gershwin's Concerto in F, 3rd movement) the instrument moved NOT AT ALL. There was something amazingly comforting about it-almost as if it were telling me, "Go ahead, pour your heart into it, I can take it."
The Fazioli was also a huge piano, but it felt strangely delicate-I didn't even want to play Gershwin on it-no, Beethoven suited it better. I felt as if all I had to do was THINK about how I wanted a phrase to sound, to feel-and there it was at my ears. The feeling was magical.
Pianos can't be compared to cars. Bosendorfer and Fazioli are both very high-end pianos. Forget about the cars.
I have the Reliant Robin of pianos...it was cheap, stays in the garage and needs a complete overhaul.
I WANT TO PLAY THE Bösendorfer !!!!!!!!!!!!
whats the song at the end
I got to play a Bosendorfer 225 yesterday and a Yamaha CFX. Both are great sounding pianos. I'm not sure which one to buy, since the CFX (really a DCFX) is $150K and the Bosend. 225 is $90K. The Bosend. 225 seems to go up in value every year. Maybe a better investment.
as much as I like Jaques Lussier ... and as much as I am aware, that jazz musicians like to play on it ... but, to demonstrate the utter beauty of the Boesendorfer 'sound' ... a Mozart or Beethoven Sonata would, in my opinion, have done the piano much more justice!
Nice presentation of my most favorite piano. However, I would have liked a little bit of Classical Music as a 'sound-sample' for demonstration. Franz Schubert for instance, sounds 'out of this world' on a Boesendorfer :o)
8:46 Then Yamaha acquired Bösendorfer in 2008.
Oscar P. pronounces it (after a slip of the tongue) wright at 10.50; Bösendorfer.
He also plays in Baldwin.
Wow :)
Pretty sure background music (jazz versions of pieces by J S Bach) is performed by Jaques Loussier's trio.
7:30 How do you continuously improve perfection . . ?
She said that they are essential for continuous improvement AND perfection
@pinintra you mean steinway?
A Bosendorfer is just a piano, but a hot dog and soda at Costco is still $1.50
3-D-print this!
@AlejandroSanAntonio ~ it sure is!!! If you have ever played on one ~ you would not want to play on anything else ;o)
Am sure that I read where Bosendorfer make only around 5 piano`s a year. If Leonid Hambro , Victor Borge and Valentina Lisista all have/used a Bosendorfer in preference to the other three great pianos on the market
Maybe 5 Imperials, or something.
Or something ???? Maybe the new Fazioli ?? Making big headways into the concert arean and was used to nght and last night in the Sydney International Piano Competition.
They build around 350 pianos a year. I takes 5 years from cutting up the wood until it is finished. Total worktime is around 6-800 hours. More for the special editions. It's 100-200 hours more than what it takes to build a Steinway, by the way
It is a sacrilage to play jazz on such an instrument especially when you introduce the city as the center of the classical world .
Absolutely - Beethoven's last sonata should be burned...
whats the rolls royce of guitar then?
soooooon in Colombia.. sooon
Geez ... And I thought the Taylor Guitar factor was impressive. It is, incredibly so, and no offense to my neighbor Bob Taylor but in comparison to Bosendorfer the Taylor factory is a corner body shop. This is positively mind boggling. As costly as these precision crafted works of art are, I can't imagine why they don't cost ten times more. At least. In a world of mass production, planned obsolescence and mass mediocrity, thank goodness true artisan craftsmanship still survives.
It infuriates me that in this excellent video of how Bosendorfer instruments are made there is jazz music in the background at first, followed by Bach, music for the harpsichord!
And then a jazz band!
why not Chopin, the prince of composers for the piano.
Why not Brahms, Rachmaninov, to show the noble cantabile tone of the instrument?
Sarah Heger Liszt would be the best. His liebestraum would be ideal.
Somebody get this lady a drink or something
Agreed Sarah. Not to mention Billy Joel, a Baldwin artist for many years, banging on a classic instrument like a child.
I've played on an original Ignaz Bösendorfer built in 1830 and signed by Ignaz just when he became a private manufacturer. Stated on the tag is his declaration and note that he as a student of Josef Brodmann.
The instrument is located at the Frederick Collection in Ashburnham, MA USA.
I bought one for our daughter who is taking lessons.
She spilled a grape soda on the keyboard, so we put the piano in the front yard and made a planter out of it.
The daughter we put in boarding school.
You wrote off an entire Bosendorfer because of some damage to the keyboard?? Did you not mop up what you could and get it repaired if necessary? What a waste!
Are you seriously saying you spent hundreds of thousands of dollars for a beginner? Something doesn't make sense here. There would be no way that the keyboard wouldn't be worth replacing and loving back to health. I'm not a fan, but I seriously doubt you spent this kind of money and then threw it out in whatever way you did. Doubt that you bought one at all.
Good grief, doesn't anyone have a sense of humour anymore?
Dynosaur Rokks well yes. But it didn't find it funny so I had no idea it was a joke. Sorry, I'm not being nasty, just saying it how I saw it.
yo guys i think he's joking lol
12:48 what song is that? I heard it when I was a child but can't remember.
Molhedim The beginning of the Fugue in Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV565
PikaPianist thanks
4.52, PVA glue used for gluing hammers, not traditional hot glue. Who still used traditional hot glue: Sauter, Steingraeber, Steinway, any others? Fazioli I guess.
Bösendorfer is pretty.
Tori Amos has a very soothing voice.
@makkakman If that's what you want you know you can just call Bösendorfer and have them make it for you. Not all of us have 100K+ to spend on a hand crafted, hand painted piano made of unobtanium :P
I heard Oscar Peterson in Boston, playing a Bosendorfer with extra bass notes. I think the instrument has wonderful tonal quality, regardless of the style of music.
I studied classical piano, but learned jazz well enough to get a written endorsement from a former keyboardist for Miles Davis.
I like the Fazioli, too, but I don't think it's offered with extra bass notes. On the flip side, it comes with some gorgeous cases, albeit not cases as modern as some of those offered by Schimmel.
As for Steinways, I think they suck. Such uneven tonal qualities I've never heard! Even Yamahas are much better than Steinways.
+Mark Pettigrew Interesting. My impression of Steinway is that they have done a classic American sell job. As you say, they are patchy and often not pleasant to hear. My tuner (who is truly excellent) prefers Yamahas for their consistency.
try the new Stuart piano its got lottsa extra notes
Mark Pettigrew: Why even Yamahas? Yamaha, since 2010 with the introduction of the CFX, makes magnificent sounding and playing pianos. The SX series is also nice. Even the less expensive CX series is very nice, if not on the same level as the much more expensive CF and SX series.
Disagree about Steinways to an extent. Some great Hamburg Steinway Ds and Bs are wonderful instruments. Some NYers are very good as well. They're inconsistent, but the great ones are wonderful instruments.
Never played a Yamaha that didn't sound muddy and feel like a brick. If I couldn't have the Bösendorfer, I'd take a Steinway & Sons.
@@984francis I was going to buy a Steinway D and tried about six different Steinway d’s all of them sucked I went over to fazioli and that is the purchase I made very happy with the choice I made but I am now trading my 278 for bosendorfer 280vc I’m still not sold on the action of the bosendorfer and seems a little heavy but I did like the coloration of the piano
yEAH!!!!!
its not boosendörfer but Bösendorfer (languagewise)
@rafant44 the funny thing is that the bosendorfer may actually be more popular with jazz artists than with classical artists (bc steinway threatens their lives if htey dont play steinways)
Why did Yamaha buy? Can they make the factory profitable? Yamaha has 100 yr piano tradition reaching back to 1900 or so, impressive that Y has survived wars and family changes :) but obviously Bösendorfer technicians and German/Austrian piano engineering has knowledge which must be interesting to Yamaha.
2:45 Awww yeaahh...
Satisf.
my chauffeur plays me bosendorfer.
what ist The musical on 12:48
+vogelstimmen Natur und co its Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor
Nice instruments, the song sung by that woman was one of the naffest songs I've ever heard lol
I thought Steinway is the undisputed brand of piano?
It is when it comes to marketing, patronage and arm-twisting. It is a lovely piano, but not a lovely company.
I'm sorry Sir, but I've no other choice but to come to the definite conclusion that size, does indeed, count. *"I'll take my Bosendorfer in the California King size, please, and yes, I am aware that I don't have those 2 little dot thingies over the "o" but I hate typing. To be cont...
ö Try typing holding the ALT key and typing 0246. This should produce a lower case ö
But Steinway and sons is beautyful!
@hawkturkey And Yamaha is the Bentley!
@@flyurway Nah... That honour goes to Bluthner, whilst C. Bechstein is the Mercedes S-class.
I will say only one thing:Steinway
Point?
More like scheißeway
Maybe the old Hamburg edition.
I think steinway has a better jazz sound. Bosendorfer's sound is too warm.
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