Assessment of a Bluthner straight strung over-damper upright piano c1891 cf overstrung under-damper:
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- Bluthner pianos are well-loved for their consistently high quality of manufacture, having very stable tuning, a lush warm tone throughout and responsive mechanism when restored. Here we contrast the overdamped straight strung with the overstrung underdamped piano as found on most new pianos today.
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These Bluthner over damper models are very special. The ultimate over damper. We are used to as modern pianists the sound of more efficient damping, but 100 years ago, and even now, some like the not so damped sound. I have seen dealers here selling the over damper models for over £1.000. weather people are buying them, I am not sure, bit have seen many advertised. I think it would be worth doing some work on this one the sound is good. The bass is not tubby. Definitely worth it
A great review of a piano featuring incredible workmanship! Thank you!
Interesting video, thanks for sharing!
I have a 1870 C J Quandt upright Saloon piano (overdamped)
And it's great! It damps very well!
Sounds really nice for upright! Great bass despite straight strung and more clarity than cross-Strung. Would be nice for accompanying singers, it has this lighter and warm tone which works nice for Lieder I think. Sell to a classical singer!
In a other video you told us about that you made from a overstrung piano a underdamper. I was wondering, is that difficult and worth to do is the piano sounds nice? Ofcourse I am talking about a Bluthner.
The first piano where you mention it has "perfect ivory keys". I thought ivory keys were always two-part. I can't see the crease. Were those really ivory keys or did they replace it with plastic ones? Would explain the whiteness of them. I mean, original ivory from that time, you would have to get your dentist in to do bleaching on these every 10 years or so. Am I wrong here?
I have seen pianos with one-part ivory keys, but two-part ivory is definitely more common. Also I think slight yellowness can be seen on keys but it appears quite white probably due camera view.
@@Pianist203 thank you very much for the reply. Ok, the camera does make a difference and in some cases also the light. I'm not much of an expert myself either by the way. Thanks for the informative video as well!
@@TheOneRaf Oh, I'm not author of video, I just happened to watch this video today and saw your comment. I'm a piano tuner and I have 1900 straight-strung overdamper Blüthner myself which has a lot of similarities. It also has very good condition ivory key-tops, but they are two-part made and slightly yellowed. I've noticed they can appear pretty white on camera.