Always wonderful to hear your playing, and also to get the opportunity to hear-even filtered through UA-cam-so may different makes and models of piano!
Lovely improvisation. Beautiful tone on this piano as well, you didn't have to "drive" it at all, and it had none of the "haunted" tone I've heard in some Chickerings. My own performances for the past few years have been almost entirely improvisational either in ensemble or solo situations. Very rewarding... I appreciate the "musical conversations" I have with other players in improv sets.
That is such a beautiful looking and sounding piano! It sounds much larger than it is. You know, I have played and tuned many of the Aeolian pianos under different brand names from this period and they really are well made pianos that have held up over the time that has passed. I have a M&H BB1 from 1969 and it is fantastic! Nice improvisation there, Robert!
Can you make a video on the screw stringer mechanism that Mason & Hamlin (and Bösendorfer) used in the early days? This mechanism replaced the wood pin block & pins and feedback from people who own restored pianos with screw stringers is that it was a superior tuning mechanism that held a tune for far longer than pinblock based pianos (possibly years instead of months). M&H also had a crowd retention system that's worth talking about. Both of these were ahead of their time. It's easy to wonder why we don't have these in pianos today. M&H marketed these features as eliminating 75% of the tunings.
Lovely harmonies in yr improv!
Wouldn't say no to one!
Thank you for showing us this piano !
Always wonderful to hear your playing, and also to get the opportunity to hear-even filtered through UA-cam-so may different makes and models of piano!
Thank you for the improvisation, maestro!
such a natural sound
I have one and love it.
Lovely improvisation. Beautiful tone on this piano as well, you didn't have to "drive" it at all, and it had none of the "haunted" tone I've heard in some Chickerings.
My own performances for the past few years have been almost entirely improvisational either in ensemble or solo situations. Very rewarding... I appreciate the "musical conversations" I have with other players in improv sets.
That is such a beautiful looking and sounding piano! It sounds much larger than it is. You know, I have played and tuned many of the Aeolian pianos under different brand names from this period and they really are well made pianos that have held up over the time that has passed. I have a M&H BB1 from 1969 and it is fantastic! Nice improvisation there, Robert!
Wearing a Hawaiian shirt with a suit, like a BOSS. The piano itself sounds wonderful
Can you make a video on the screw stringer mechanism that Mason & Hamlin (and Bösendorfer) used in the early days? This mechanism replaced the wood pin block & pins and feedback from people who own restored pianos with screw stringers is that it was a superior tuning mechanism that held a tune for far longer than pinblock based pianos (possibly years instead of months). M&H also had a crowd retention system that's worth talking about. Both of these were ahead of their time. It's easy to wonder why we don't have these in pianos today. M&H marketed these features as eliminating 75% of the tunings.
Interesting piano indeed. (And I think that's the first time I've seen you play your channel's theme tune.)
Nice
My first voice teacher had a very old Chickering grand in her studio. It was the oldest piano in the school of music and she wouldn't part with it.