I was born with about five pianos around me as my father was a pianist, piano technician and piano seller. I never had a teacher and I don't feel I ever needed one. Now I am 65 years old and for the first time I hear clearly the sounds that make the piano a unique instrument. So thank you for letting me understand what I always heard, knew that it was resonance but couldn't understand the depth of it and how exactly it is produced. I am deeply indebted to you.
It took me a very long time to try to express to others what ive been hearing as i play around with chords on my 1910 upright grand.. it is as if the soundboard jumps out at you like as do the auras of the northern lights build and discharge but in a form of something you can hear!
All i'm trying to prove with this point is that what you call observation is completely relative. There is no such objective standard for what counts as observation and this applies not just to ghosts but to ufos to bigfoot to remote viewing to psychedelics to telekinesis to mystical experiences. People have been talking about mystical experiences for thousands of years for example, do you as a scientist admit the validity of mystical experiences? Of course not, you think they're all nonsense. Why? because of your methodological biases. How about psychedelics, do you admit the validity of psychedelics? Do you admit that psychedelics can give you profound insights about the nature of science and reality? No of course not. You completely dismissed that. Why? Because the scientific establishment that you're a part of has brainwashed you into believing that that is the case. Have you actually tried a psychedelic yourself? Nah probably not and if you did maybe you were like a teenager or something, you didn't seriously understand what you experienced. See 🍄🎹🍄
Choe Vincent exactly my thought. and, i don't mean to hate but the way he speaks is quite distracting. it's not just the staccato way he speaks but the way his voice often shifts between being so soft that it's difficult to hear, to almost like shouting.
I’m not a musician, but I appreciate music, and know something about musical tones from electronic engineering and (long ago) ham radio. Here’s what I noticed: The harmonic resonance is something like the sound of a pipe organ. This could be partly because an organ pipe produces a tone richer in harmonics to begin with than a piano string, and partly because (as far as I know) the pipes not being blown, unlike piano keys not being struck, are not damped out in a pipe organ, and so their air columns are free to pick up and resonate to the sound of the pipes which ARE blown. Whatever the physics, it sounds great!
The idea to record parts of well-known music like this is great. I find amazing the sound of Fantaisie Impromptu, is what a good performance of it should enhance on a normal sounded piano. The shushing of leafs in the wind... Great idea! This might be used in testing the performance of a piano!...
The harmonic only music is quite tantalising - at times, I could have sworn I was listening to cellos and violins - at other moments, it sounded like handbells, and there were also bits where, in the absence of such a lucid explanation, I would have just assumed to be syth
That was amazing, beyond simply interesting, made me think a lot. I practice on an electric piano at home, but once a week i play on an acoustic piano and after some time i started to notice a clear difference between the two but i never knew what it was. I also noticed that the resonance sounds empty, which makes a lot of sense, because it's the c minor chord for example, but without the actual c minor chord.
Actually modern digital pianos like Yamaha have sympathetic resonance built in as well. The reason you can hear the difference is the brain's ability to tell the sound is coming from a loudspeaker. If you record both acoustic and digital pianos (a good one) and play the recordings back through loudspeakers, then you can't hear the difference.
Your sense of perception - hearing changes as your auditory nerve senses the change, that's why you can hear more than one sound at a time. Your analysis is right tuppo1201, but don't forget that some musicians are deaf and one in particular is a percussionist. This also means that you are able to withstand loud music at a disco, but your brain would get confused as the auditory nerve is a cranial nerve, so you would end up with ringing in the ears.
Would that also be determined by how the note is played as the keys on a normal piano are also weighted keys, although coming from a loudspeaker, what if it's connected to an external amp?
Thank you for sharing this... absolutely mesmerizing sounds that enchant and evoke quite a range of emotions. Curiously, the sounds remind me of early synthesizers from the 80s/90s when I dabbled in sound construction. I would enjoy the challenge of creating a piece of music that has the characteristics from your video pieces. The resulting music certainly relates to a palette of colours, as you described... a treat to listen to.
I would like to hear the resonance played together with the primary tone, but at the same volume as the primary tone. Thus, the primary tone would not be salient, but more blended. The Moonlight Sonata would do.
that will be possible once a kontakt sample set of this piano is released and u use a seperate midi switch to trigger said "string reverb" the sound (on my phone) reminds me of guitarist Alan Holdsworth, rip
You should be able to hear or "feel" the effects of the harmonics married with the notes when you play notes with the 3rd pedal pressed down. For me, harmonics create the emotional pull of a piece of music. Harmonics are amazing.
This is really interesting sounding, but I'd be really curious to see the mechanics of this 4th pedal actually doing what you say.. It really sounds like a digital filter is applied. FWIW, I think a demonstration simple sympathetic vibrations is an important starting point. In high school, my music teacher had us hold down all the keys above middle C (slowly, to release the mute, but not hammer the strings) and then hit middle C really hard, and you can clearly hear the overtones. Next, you can hold down only the notes you expect, or dont expect to hear sympathetic vibration from, and see if you're right. This would have been a really good intro to the concept at the beginning of the video
When I heard the sound of the sympathetic notes it was as if something occurred in my mind. I immediately related the sympathetic cords, vibrating in accordance with the struck cord, to the presence of spirits of all kind with us. We are being struck for the opportunity of life and we believe that we are alone in this ephemeral experience, but sympathetic beings are been simultaneously struck by the influx of life that comes to us from above. I literally burst in tears when I heard the first notes and realized it. Thank you for your kindness in sharing this experience with us. Your friend from Brazil.
Interesting topic but an irritating whining voice , his sentences had pauses where there shouldn't be, and extra extra long pauses some places which made him hard to understand his message
Modern electric piano like Clavinova implements sympathetic resoncance of other strings, my clp470 that is 8 years old, aready has it, inot sure the new model has the harmonic pedal piano.
Why aren't the struck notes heard while their keys are down? Have they been electronically removed? I want to hear the pieces played with the harmonic pedal pressed, but otherwise unmodified, as I would hear it standing next to the piano.
thorr18BEM I think that you're missing the point. In order for the other strings to vibrate in sympathetic harmony, the primary note MUST sound first. These must have been removed from the audio. Also, when you hold a piano key after striking the note, there is nothing "held pressed against" the string. In fact, releasing the key is ordinarily what brings the damper back down onto the string, unless you are using the sustain pedal.
I am not missing any point! What I want to hear is what the piano sounds like without any alteration to the audio track whatsoever. That's what is usually heard in a performance. 2 soundtracks could be recorded, one with sustain on, and the other with it off, for comparison.
Profoundly wonderful of you to do this Mr. Barton. Anyone who is interested in the physics of sound/music would have to be very interested in this. The sympathetic vibrations sounded much like a string orchestra + organ playing, to my ear. The "piano was removed" because the attack of the notes were removed.
YasuoMidOnly then download a moonlight sonata midi. Import, and zero the attack effect on the piano sound. Just about the same effect. aenigman.bandcamp.com/track/water-stage-opt-1 Here's "proof". Synthetic, but similar.
Many years ago, I went to a conservatory. I would go down to the concert hall often. When ever anyone was on stage practicing before a concert, I would be outside the hall just off back stage. This is what I would hear. I always found it haunting and would go down the concert hall just to listen to this sound. I don't know if other people hear it. But I always do, Just outside the back stage doors.
Andreas Devig I did want to know the chords, so I listened to it a few times and transcribed them. You can find them in a response to an earlier comment. :)
Brilliant! I developed my ear for being a sound tech when I was a boy at the piano. I would open up our old spinet, hold down the sustain pedal, sing into the harp or play specific keys, and listen for individual strings to vibrate.
Good on you. We need to keep in mind that you don't need to be anyone special to be the discoverer or inventor of anything. Your discovery could have possibly been the experience behind this video. However, most humans leave it to someone else because we feel we don't have the influences of scientific theories.
Expanding your musical knowledge! The resonance is a phenomenon that can also be reproduced on the bass. If you play a note on a string with the exact frequence of another string, you will see both strings will vibrate. There are some curiosities about music that every musician should know. Have you ever heard about temperament and how all string instruments that have frets, including the electric bass, and the keyboard instruments are a little bit out of tune?
This is interesting. the same kind of oscillations occur in the electromagnetic spectrum when you transmit at one particular frequency, and end up generating additional frequencies at multiples of the primary/fundamental frequency. Thanks for the thought provoking demonstration.
Now that you mention it, it does remind me a bit of Vaporwave. It also kind of reminds me of the sound that you get when you reverse one note or chord that's being held down, if you know what I mean. The beginning of _Roundabout_ by Yes features the sound that I'm talking about.
Wow, thank you so much for explaining. I have always wondered what makes the electric piano so different, even with very precise recordings for the keys and with added reverb, It still felt kinda differently, and now I finally know why :) Thanks.
A pal and I (both sound and keyboard enthusiasts) used to play at making loud noises in the room, like screams and bangs, and with the dampers up the piano would act like a weak reverb, echoing back the timbres of the original noises. Fun stuff!
You are right Kur, Shatner doesn't talk like that. Shatner is originally from Canada (but doesn't have much of a Canadian accent) and I believe that our host Paul Burton is from Yorkshire.
- what a marvelous tonal palette ! The near-infinite combinations that can be created from the balance of the voicing of notes played - the mixture of loud and soft notes, and the duration held, the staccato or legato connection, and manipulation of the sustain and sostenuto pedals ... - easy to see how those artists who masterfully make use of this palette distinguish themselves to the ears of the listener from those who simply push keys .. - thanks Paul!
TomNationFAM I want to figure out what note he's hitting with his voice. Wow. I actually had to stop watching this, I was listening on an earbud. Ow. I'll come back to it.
First off, let me say Thank you for making this video. My mother played the piano for a very long time, until her arthritis made her stop, unfortunately. She is still with us, though, thankfully. She has an upright piano, but I had never heard those sounds from it, as it is only a 3 pedal model. The harmonic resonance sounds to me, a lot like a pipe organ being heard from the far end of a very long hall in a very large building. Thank you again for posting this. It's very interesting and extremely informative.
Wow, this is so cool! I figured out how to do this on my Yamaha Motif-XF keyboard, there is an Insertion Effect on the piano voices called "Damper Resonance". If you turn up the Dry/Wet Balance to D
Hi King, The sound isn't quite as nice as I would like. It sounds better if you leave in part of the piano patch, change the AEG for a gradual note attack, add in about 50% Chorus, Lots of Reverb with the time extended, and use the Sustain pedal.
If you take the right drug you can see the air striking the other strings and realize the physical process involved in this sympathetic vibration stuff! I have a guitar effects peddle that makes my guitar sound like this!
Only someone who had NO grasp or concept of sound would thumb down. Bravo!!!! For your post!!! This is incredible!!! A new way to create music. Thank you thank you thank you!!!!❤❤❤❤😉😉😉😉
I did notice this effect when playing guitar.. One or several other strings will vibrate and continue to vibrate after the main "struck" string has been muted and i always wondered if the same happens with a piano and i imagined it would be stronger than the guitar so this video helped me understand without buying and fidling with an expensive piano
Completely unexpected, and amazing! If nobody has yet figured out how to do this with an electric piano, someone should do so immediately. It would make millions.
This video builds up but fails to deliver, in my opinion. I want to see it work, not just hear it. I want to see the mechanism. I want to know who invented this.
The mechanism is clearly explained in this video and quite easy to visualise if you understand the explanation given. Suppress the harmonics pedal and the dampers will raise from all the strings leaving them to vibrate freely, just like they do when you suppress the damper pedal. The difference here is, if you strike a note or several notes on the piano whilst keeping the harmonics pedal suppressed, then the damper(s) will dampen this or these notes only, while all untouched notes stay undamped with their dampers raised, leaving them to vibrate sympathetically to the note you struck. They also do this when you suppress the damper pedal, however they don't vibrate at nearly the same magnitude and volume as the key(s) you strike. There are 2 reasons for this, the obvious reason is that these other strings are not struck physically by the hammeraction, but are instead vibrated by the sound around them, this is what is called sympathetic vibration. The other reason is that most of these other notes don't have a particularly great resonant relationship with the struck fundamental note. The strings of these other notes prefer to vibrate at their own tuned fundamental frequencies and therefore they don't easily vibrate sympathetically to other frequencies, they are actually being forced to vibrate at an unnatural frequency and for this additional reason they will also tend to vibrate at a much lower magnitude/volume. And since the struck note is also undamped with the damper pedal, and left to vibrate freely with a much greater magnitude, it will easily overpower and drown the sound coming from all the other strings. Therefore the harmonics pedal was invented to dampen the struck note in order to avoid overpowering and drowning all this sympathetic resonance coming from the other notes.
However, the other strings can't magically vibrate unless the original strings are first struck -- which we don't hear in this video. That's what's so confusing about the audio in this video. We don't hear the original struck notes. Rather, I think we're hearing altered audio with the struck notes bits removed, leaving just the resonance bits. An interesting recording in itself, but not an actual demonstration of the pedal in use. One of his other video does a good job of demonstrating what the harmonic pedal sounds like in "real" life. ua-cam.com/video/nAOvGraQv28/v-deo.html
On a synth it'd be like changing the attack and release on the envelope, then filtering through a phaser and going a bit crazy with reverb. Similar stuff happens. (Overtones via different reasons.) But there you can also reverse the sample waveform which is fun too.
i understanding killing the attack and increasing the release (i think thats right) as well as adding some reverb. Why the phaser though? how would that help recreate this organ-like sound? hoping to hear from you!
Interesting stuff. I would imagine a large church Organ has this similar feature naturally, as in that the pipes will resonate much more readily to sound waves, long after the initial pipe has been activated. These piano samples do sound fairly similar to the harmonic resonances you obtain via a church organ. But I have no detailed understanding of how church organs work, so this assumption might be completely wrong! But this video was a great example of resonance.
Kevin O'Brien Sorry, but im pretty shure that thats bullshit. A Organ doesnt get its sound by vibrating strings and resonance room, more like a lot of flutes. When one is playing, the others wont really "resonate". Its like holding a steel flute into a piano and hope that it makes tones ;)
I am sure your correct. But two adjacent organ pipes can influence each other, lots of experiments have proved it. But maybe not in same way as I have described. But unlike yourself I am no expert. physicsbuzz.physicscentral.com/2009/09/surprising-physics-of-pipe-organs.html
+Moritz Paul Holy shit, your flute example is the dumbest ever. Unlike piano strings, flutes are not tuned to a specific note, as they have to be able to play a wide range of notes. Thus, they will not have strong resonance with any particular note.
Moritz Paul As a pipe organ builder there is some sympathetic resonance. Not nearly the degree of a vibrating string, but columns of air of other adjacent pipes of different ranks can resonate slightly. It would be absolutely imperceptible to anyone not within inches of said pipes.
bennemann You are partly correct. Unlike an orchestral flute with lots of node points for all of its range, an organ pipe is a single pitch and has some sympathetic resonance as a result of the numerous multiple single pitches of the pipes.
I've wondered for quite some time why electric pianos haven't been able to replicate the sound of an acoustic grand piano to 100% accuracy. This certainly explains it! In fact, it explains it very well. The information is presented slowly and clearly, so one can absorb the information. I like that about this video and wish that more video narrators who present scientific information would present it in the way that you do.
Hello Paul. Nice video. I just thought I'd correct one small thing. The device you were referring to is not commonly called "an electric piano". Rather that is a "workstation keyboard" or "digital piano". An electric piano is an analog device with metal tines, an amplifier, and sustain pedal. Electric pianos are commonly used in funk and R&B music (think Stevie Wonder or Ray Charles). Workstations and digital pianos use sampling to produce semi-realistic recreations of true analog pianos and other instruments.
I remember an article in Keyboard Magazine that touched on this difference and they called Rhodes like pianos, "Electric pianos" like you mention and the other type "Electronic Pianos."
Basically, when the hammer strikes the string, the vibrations make the strings around it go off slightly as well, so these sounds are just the strings around EXCEPT the string being struck
There are different kinds of reverbs. A large hall, like a church, has a long reverbration. We have also created artificial reverb devices, e.g. spring and plate types. So, Paul has created a new artificial reverb device using the strings of a piano. This is a nice audio demonstration, and the sounds are nice. But keep in mind that it is still just another way of creating a reverb device, however an amazing idea.
As a so called ' musician' and semi-retired minister of Word and music, I completely understand the principles of physically caused sound (produced by physical action/means) and residual sound (sound which resides in physical/hearable form from a physical cause)
You can simulate this in software by recording a 'chord' which includes every note being played on sampled (or real) piano at the same time, until the notes fade away, and then using that as the impulse-response for a convolution based reverb (theoretically it's a perfect simulation). It sounds mental if you use other instruments to generate the reverb, or play other instruments through it too.
Yes! I slowed it down by 20% with Audacity and spent about an hour listening to each pair of chords on repeat -- that way it's easier to pick it out one voice moving up, down, staying the same or disappearing. There's a lot of reverb so it's hard to distinguish some of the harmonics, so there might be extra (or missing) notes, so correct the bits of this that are wrong: A C E G (Amin7) x2 F B E A (Fmaj7b5) x2 F Bb D A C (Dmin7 add6 / F?) x2 G C E A (Amin7 / G) Gb Cb Eb Ab B (Ab min7 / Gb) F Bb D A C (Dmin7 add6 / F) G Db F G Bb (Gmin7b5) Gb B E A (Gbmin7sus4? -- quartal chord) Gb C F Bb D (Cmin9sus4 / Gb - another quartal chord over a tritone?) F B E G# B (E major over tritone of Db7?) F Bb Eb Ab C (Fmin7sus4 -- aka "So What" chord) Bb E Ab C Eb (Abmaj9b6 / Bb?) A D G C E (Amin7sus4, another "So What" chord) :)
You can also use shift + comma to slow something down on youtube or shift + period to speed it up. Goes in 25% increments though. Doesn't change pitch, sounds better on UA-cam then when I do it in a DAW for some reason. And thanks for sharing this :D
I believe these are pretty standard jazz chords without bass (rootless) and voiced mostly in the so called "upper structure", e.g. a tritone interval followed by a triad in second inversion. This makes them sound a bit vague and even mystic :) Add the corresponding bass and they will make sense to you. For example Gb C F Bb D is just a D7alt (D missing), so it's more correctly: (D) F# C E# Bb D. The chord that follows is apparently a G7b9: (G) F B E Ab B. And so on.
Thanks for that insight! Rootless chords are something I only started to pay attention to recently, and their ambiguity seems to require understanding where a chord progression is likely to go. A good exercise :)
Sounds like a cello and pipe organ mixed together but with the rumble sound you get when you loudly play a low note on an acoustic piano. That’s the best I can describe it.
The first "electric" piano you showed was actually an electronic sampling keyboard. Keyboards referred to as "electro-acoustic" are Wurlitzer, Fender Rhodes, Hohner Pianet & Clavinet, they all produce sound (via tines or strings) acoustically that is amplified.
I remember doing this when I was young, never thought about it being used musically. We had an upright piano and I would pull the face off, strike a key and damper the string to hear the result.
Luis, you are so right. It's a fascinating video, with amazing sounds, and yet some people feel it necessary to make irrelevant, unnecessary remarks. And, by the way, I love Paul's Yorkshire accent!
So after reading like 50 comments I stumble upon this area of comments. A section that has good views/intentions, but I didn't read any negative comments before scrolling here. There only examples of what others are saying but your shinning light on there negativity. Just the thought of a negative intention carries out as energy, vibrations that make ripples. This is why you can tell someone is mad when you walk into the same house/room, you feel the vibrational frequency. Same reason why you can feel someone staring at you. Keep the good vibes, except the bad but do not spread. I love you all.. You can test it at home with 2 plants or 2 jars of rice, Check out Dr. Emoto's work..
On a Digital Audio software this is a sound you can achieve by applying 100% wet and 0% dry reverb (room reverb with exaggerated settings for example) on a normal piano recording. I also think that these sounds are used in movie scores.
Great analogy between the sympathetic vibrations & solar corona - and beautiful, surreal examples. I think Joe Zawinul did something like this in the very 1st Weather Report album, in the piece called "Milky Way".
It's really quite a neat gadget but save yourself the awful, stilted delivery and repetition of the same info. Watch 3:42-5:32 then skip directly to 7:18 to hear the examples of what it really does.
I've recognized the extra sounds in pianos before (not to this clarity), but hearing them like this... I could barely contain the tears in my eyes when I heard Moonlight Sonata the first time.
Yep. When I majored in music in College the theory teacher demonstrated this in the first semester. If you listen to a convolution reverb with the dry mix off mix listening to the effect side it sounds a lot like these examples of sympathetic harmonics and resonance. Very organ like at times.
The actual sympathetic resonance and dampining is shown at 3:50 Please do acknowledge that dampening the string also dampens the sympathetic resonance, by the way its not like we're fully hacking physics to let us hear objects sympathetically resonate when the original object is at rest.
Why don't we see him playing whilst using the resonance thing? makes me think it was computer generated and that they still have to produce this stuff.
Daniel Revenkov He said the only added affect was a slight bit of amplification so you could hear the resonant notes better. The whole instrument vibrates when the chords are struck which is why you hear all the strings even when the struck notes are immediately muted.
There’s absolutely no way to do this without editing, but the sounds themselves are not computer generated. First he plays the chords like normal. The vibration from those struck strings cause all of the other strings to resonate. He then mutes the strings that were struck by the hammers, leaving the others to resonate. Once he’s played all the chords in this manner, he edits out the sound from the period of the chords beings struck until they are muted, leaving only the sympathetic resonance. These clips are stitched together to produce the track you’re hearing. That’s why there’s a slight degree of ducking in between the resonant chords, he’s (I assume) cross fading the clips together so that it doesn’t sound jittery.
That's because with a digital you are not hearing those harmonic overtones. No digital piano, no matter how good the samples are can compare to an acoustic piano.
This sounds like music created by 'outline' of the note. It feels like we're hearing the 'outline' like a looking at a puzzle with all the pieces except one, but you are able to grasp what that piece looks like by what's around it. The Pieces on the edge that share similarities, and borders with that sound, but aren't quite it. It's actually quite interesting.
Ive always heard the reasonance. I thought it was because the piano was really old. I hope the acoustic piano remains popular forever. I forget what that stop is on the organ. You really can't help how you speak. Good video.
Mr Barton speaks with a Yorkshire accent. How was it at odds with the content? Do Yorkshiremen not play piano? What a ridiculous (if not bigoted) comment. How did you become so insular that you can't handle listening to a native English speaker who is from a different country to yourself?
I was born with about five pianos around me as my father was a pianist, piano technician and piano seller. I never had a teacher and I don't feel I ever needed one. Now I am 65 years old and for the first time I hear clearly the sounds that make the piano a unique instrument. So thank you for letting me understand what I always heard, knew that it was resonance but couldn't understand the depth of it and how exactly it is produced. I am deeply indebted to you.
Akis Avlonitis me too!!!!
It took me a very long time to try to express to others what ive been hearing as i play around with chords on my 1910 upright grand.. it is as if the soundboard jumps out at you like as do the auras of the northern lights build and discharge but in a form of something you can hear!
@@MajorBoobSweat that is a lovely analogy.
@@MajorBoobSweat indeed, a truly lovely and quite fitting analogy ❤️
All i'm trying to prove with this point is that what you call observation is completely relative. There is no such objective standard for what counts as observation and this applies not just to ghosts but to ufos to bigfoot to remote viewing to psychedelics to telekinesis to mystical experiences. People have been talking about mystical experiences for thousands of years for example, do you as a scientist admit the validity of mystical experiences? Of course not, you think they're all nonsense. Why? because of your methodological biases. How about psychedelics, do you admit the validity of psychedelics? Do you admit that psychedelics can give you profound insights about the nature of science and reality? No of course not. You completely dismissed that. Why? Because the scientific establishment that you're a part of has brainwashed you into believing that that is the case. Have you actually tried a psychedelic yourself? Nah probably not and if you did maybe you were like a teenager or something, you didn't seriously understand what you experienced. See 🍄🎹🍄
The music starts at 7:23
You're welcome.
Yeah, no kidding Matt, thank god for a clickable timeline.
I can't believe he talks for 7 mins
Kristus är vår Frälsare, Halleluja - slightly random but ok
You just saved 5 minutes of my life.
That first chords is so out of tune it makes me uncomfortable.
You are speaking in staccato.
Choe Vincent exactly my thought. and, i don't mean to hate but the way he speaks is quite distracting. it's not just the staccato way he speaks but the way his voice often shifts between being so soft that it's difficult to hear, to almost like shouting.
-No.im.not.you.stu.pid.piece.of.dumb.shit.-
LOL
It actually makes sense *xD*
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LOL
I’m not a musician, but I appreciate music, and know something about musical tones from electronic engineering and (long ago) ham radio. Here’s what I noticed:
The harmonic resonance is something like the sound of a pipe organ. This could be partly because an organ pipe produces a tone richer in harmonics to begin with than a piano string, and partly because (as far as I know) the pipes not being blown, unlike piano keys not being struck, are not damped out in a pipe organ, and so their air columns are free to pick up and resonate to the sound of the pipes which ARE blown.
Whatever the physics, it sounds great!
Same here,
The idea to record parts of well-known music like this is great. I find amazing the sound of Fantaisie Impromptu, is what a good performance of it should enhance on a normal sounded piano. The shushing of leafs in the wind... Great idea! This might be used in testing the performance of a piano!...
The harmonic only music is quite tantalising - at times, I could have sworn I was listening to cellos and violins - at other moments, it sounded like handbells, and there were also bits where, in the absence of such a lucid explanation, I would have just assumed to be syth
I also picked up on the organ sound as well. Would have been cool to have a sample side by side to compare the overtones produced.
Allan Richardson I don’t know anything about how keyboard physics work, but it sounds kind of like a glass harmonica to me.
My god, Moonlight Sonata resonance sound its breathtaking.
Yeah. It's chord progression is amazing
I preferred Canon, personally
Fantasie Impromptu though
I hate it when people dont use the proper name for this music.
Piano Sonata 14 is its true name.
IIGrayfoxII Oh boo hoo
Why is the pedal function not shown in the video recording?
The samples we get are clearly recorded under different circumstances.
sounds like a synthesizer
Myles S.
Or a reversed sound.
I wonder what ragtime would sound like
using this pedal...
That was amazing, beyond simply interesting, made me think a lot. I practice on an electric piano at home, but once a week i play on an acoustic piano and after some time i started to notice a clear difference between the two but i never knew what it was. I also noticed that the resonance sounds empty, which makes a lot of sense, because it's the c minor chord for example, but without the actual c minor chord.
TheBloodPainter Also, the fact that on most electric pianos you can't get a proper touch, and dynamics are messy as well
Actually modern digital pianos like Yamaha have sympathetic resonance built in as well. The reason you can hear the difference is the brain's ability to tell the sound is coming from a loudspeaker. If you record both acoustic and digital pianos (a good one) and play the recordings back through loudspeakers, then you can't hear the difference.
Your sense of perception - hearing changes as your auditory nerve senses the change, that's why you can hear more than one sound at a time. Your analysis is right tuppo1201, but don't forget that some musicians are deaf and one in particular is a percussionist. This also means that you are able to withstand loud music at a disco, but your brain would get confused as the auditory nerve is a cranial nerve, so you would end up with ringing in the ears.
Would that also be determined by how the note is played as the keys on a normal piano are also weighted keys, although coming from a loudspeaker, what if it's connected to an external amp?
Some organs have an acoustic piano sound, but would it alter that if two sounds were used at the same time?
where do I buy a 4th pedal? xd
Wal-Mart now carry them in many of their many stores. If not at your Wal-Mart, they will mail order or order for store pick-up at a future date.
Thank you for sharing this... absolutely mesmerizing sounds that enchant and evoke quite a range of emotions. Curiously, the sounds remind me of early synthesizers from the 80s/90s when I dabbled in sound construction. I would enjoy the challenge of creating a piece of music that has the characteristics from your video pieces. The resulting music certainly relates to a palette of colours, as you described... a treat to listen to.
I would like to hear the resonance played together with the primary tone, but at the same volume as the primary tone. Thus, the primary tone would not be salient, but more blended. The Moonlight Sonata would do.
The Sonata would very very do... :-) I loved the harmonics, I am curious to hear both blended together!
that will be possible once a kontakt sample set of this piano is released and u use a seperate midi switch to trigger said "string reverb" the sound (on my phone) reminds me of guitarist Alan Holdsworth, rip
The Sonata really stood out to me too. It was haunting and gorgeous. Would love to hear the primary notes played with the resonance.
You should be able to hear or "feel" the effects of the harmonics married with the notes when you play notes with the 3rd pedal pressed down. For me, harmonics create the emotional pull of a piece of music. Harmonics are amazing.
just compare electric piano sounds with acoustic piano sounds
Paul Barton, this is another excellently interesting video that is really well explained.
I love your videos! Thanks.
It's also the personaility as well which makes it more enjoyable.
Yes Wayne. Paul is a great presenter as well as a great and knowledgable musician.
This is really interesting sounding, but I'd be really curious to see the mechanics of this 4th pedal actually doing what you say.. It really sounds like a digital filter is applied. FWIW, I think a demonstration simple sympathetic vibrations is an important starting point. In high school, my music teacher had us hold down all the keys above middle C (slowly, to release the mute, but not hammer the strings) and then hit middle C really hard, and you can clearly hear the overtones. Next, you can hold down only the notes you expect, or dont expect to hear sympathetic vibration from, and see if you're right. This would have been a really good intro to the concept at the beginning of the video
Loved it! THANKS Paul. I'm hoping there are some more audio clips of you playing entire pieces with JUST the sympathetic resonance -- it's FANTASTIC
I thought he said “Hi there, I’m poor”
And I was confused because he was sitting next to a full grand piano
When I heard the sound of the sympathetic notes it was as if something occurred in my mind. I immediately related the sympathetic cords, vibrating in accordance with the struck cord, to the presence of spirits of all kind with us. We are being struck for the opportunity of life and we believe that we are alone in this ephemeral experience, but sympathetic beings are been simultaneously struck by the influx of life that comes to us from above. I literally burst in tears when I heard the first notes and realized it. Thank you for your kindness in sharing this experience with us. Your friend from Brazil.
What a beautiful sound. Thanks for sharing that!
Thank you - you're welcome.
how are you getting the sympathetic resonance only? Using software?
wiremessiah No. He's using a pedal designed to block the sound of the keys actually played so that the sound of all the other strings can be heard.
@KnucklesE "Beautiful" is an understatement! Why don't more grand pianos come with this fourth pedal?!
Interesting topic but an irritating whining voice , his sentences had pauses where there shouldn't be, and extra extra long pauses some places which made him hard to understand his message
Modern electric piano like Clavinova implements sympathetic resoncance of other strings, my clp470 that is 8 years old, aready has it, inot sure the new model has the harmonic pedal piano.
The resonance can almost be described as the "feeling" of the music as opposed to the sound. Beautiful stuff.
Thank you. I am understanding much more now.
Never thought your voice would be so dynamic.
AND full of breathers.
Why aren't the struck notes heard while their keys are down? Have they been electronically removed? I want to hear the pieces played with the harmonic pedal pressed, but otherwise unmodified, as I would hear it standing next to the piano.
A string can't vibrate when something is held pressed against it.
thorr18BEM
I think that you're missing the point. In order for the other strings to vibrate in sympathetic harmony, the primary note MUST sound first. These must have been removed from the audio.
Also, when you hold a piano key after striking the note, there is nothing "held pressed against" the string. In fact, releasing the key is ordinarily what brings the damper back down onto the string, unless you are using the sustain pedal.
I am not missing any point! What I want to hear is what the piano sounds like without any alteration to the audio track whatsoever. That's what is usually heard in a performance. 2 soundtracks could be recorded, one with sustain on, and the other with it off, for comparison.
Brian Park
Sorry, that was not meant for you, but the guy who replied above.
I am also confused we shouldn't be hearing anything without the primary strings being struck and that is absent...
Profoundly wonderful of you to do this Mr. Barton. Anyone who is interested in the physics of sound/music would have to be very interested in this. The sympathetic vibrations sounded much like a string orchestra + organ playing, to my ear. The "piano was removed" because the attack of the notes were removed.
Is there someway I could get the full Moonlight Sonata Resonance Only mp3?
Download the audio of this video and split it.
Hans Müller he wants the FULL version, not 45 second snippet
Download fl studio
YasuoMidOnly then download a moonlight sonata midi. Import, and zero the attack effect on the piano sound. Just about the same effect.
aenigman.bandcamp.com/track/water-stage-opt-1
Here's "proof". Synthetic, but similar.
This is bound to be on UA-cam.
Many years ago, I went to a conservatory. I would go down to the concert hall often. When ever anyone was on stage practicing before a concert, I would be outside the hall just off back stage. This is what I would hear. I always found it haunting and would go down the concert hall just to listen to this sound. I don't know if other people hear it. But I always do, Just outside the back stage doors.
What are those fantastic jazz chords??
batlin Rhetorical or do you really want to know the chords?
Andreas Devig I did want to know the chords, so I listened to it a few times and transcribed them. You can find them in a response to an earlier comment. :)
In my head I heard a Beatnik accent LoL..
Im sure there will be music score tutorial on this on UA-cam.
If it's of interest to anyone, I posted my transcription here: overto.eu/Mystery_Jazz_Progression__Paul_Barton.pdf
Brilliant! I developed my ear for being a sound tech when I was a boy at the piano. I would open up our old spinet, hold down the sustain pedal, sing into the harp or play specific keys, and listen for individual strings to vibrate.
Whats cool is that I’ve actually discovered this on my own!
Prolific Sol same !
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Good on you. We need to keep in mind that you don't need to be anyone special to be the discoverer or inventor of anything. Your discovery could have possibly been the experience behind this video. However, most humans leave it to someone else because we feel we don't have the influences of scientific theories.
You're obviously very talented mate, it's a fantastic achievement.
Sympathetic resonance is what make the piano sound full. This is amazing!
I am a metal Bass player... what the Hell am i even doing Here
Autoplay m8
Thrashing Cas musicians of all genres can indulge in the beauty of a piano. Perhaps the best instrument every created.
Expanding your musical knowledge! The resonance is a phenomenon that can also be reproduced on the bass. If you play a note on a string with the exact frequence of another string, you will see both strings will vibrate. There are some curiosities about music that every musician should know. Have you ever heard about temperament and how all string instruments that have frets, including the electric bass, and the keyboard instruments are a little bit out of tune?
Great....maybe you'll learn something about music instead of that head banging ear shredding shit you people produce.
when was the last time you cleaned yourself?
This is interesting. the same kind of oscillations occur in the electromagnetic spectrum when you transmit at one particular frequency, and end up generating additional frequencies at multiples of the primary/fundamental frequency. Thanks for the thought provoking demonstration.
It's like Vaporwave
JuaninMonster yeaah Totally
Now that you mention it, it does remind me a bit of Vaporwave. It also kind of reminds me of the sound that you get when you reverse one note or chord that's being held down, if you know what I mean. The beginning of _Roundabout_ by Yes features the sound that I'm talking about.
Toaster Strooder kinda like a swell or reversed reverb yeah
JuaninMonster classical vaporwave
nah, but like the creepy troll crap vaporwave stuff
Wow, thank you so much for explaining. I have always wondered what makes the electric piano so different, even with very precise recordings for the keys and with added reverb, It still felt kinda differently, and now I finally know why :) Thanks.
i don't play piano, I got here from dank Windows XP memes.
Now you have a soundtrack for all your memeing needs
HOW?!? I WAS JUST WATCHING THOSE AND NOW I'M HERE!
A pal and I (both sound and keyboard enthusiasts) used to play at making loud noises in the room, like screams and bangs, and with the dampers up the piano would act like a weak reverb, echoing back the timbres of the original noises. Fun stuff!
I found shatners voice coach
Austin Whitecotton Is he ... on ... the wing?
There's a man out there!
What's funny is that Shatner never talks like that.
You are right Kur, Shatner doesn't talk like that. Shatner is originally from Canada (but doesn't have much of a Canadian accent) and I believe that our host Paul Burton is from Yorkshire.
It is a tad rude to concentrate on a person's accent and the natural cadences of his dialect rather then comment on the content.
- what a marvelous tonal palette ! The near-infinite combinations that can be created from the balance of the voicing of notes played - the mixture of loud and soft notes, and the duration held, the staccato or legato connection, and manipulation of the sustain and sostenuto pedals ...
- easy to see how those artists who masterfully make use of this palette distinguish themselves to the ears of the listener from those who simply push keys ..
- thanks Paul!
you have many breaks between words.not sure if its just how you talk, however the video was good and that's all that matters.
Comma was his imaginary friend growing up
Severely underrated comment.
He speaks in staccato. But it does get your attention. I like it.
TomNationFAM I want to figure out what note he's hitting with his voice. Wow. I actually had to stop watching this, I was listening on an earbud. Ow. I'll come back to it.
Kevin O'Brien hahahaaa 😁
First off, let me say Thank you for making this video. My mother played the piano for a very long time, until her arthritis made her stop, unfortunately. She is still with us, though, thankfully. She has an upright piano, but I had never heard those sounds from it, as it is only a 3 pedal model. The harmonic resonance sounds to me, a lot like a pipe organ being heard from the far end of a very long hall in a very large building. Thank you again for posting this. It's very interesting and extremely informative.
Wow, this is so cool! I figured out how to do this on my Yamaha Motif-XF keyboard, there is an Insertion Effect on the piano voices called "Damper Resonance". If you turn up the Dry/Wet Balance to D
Thor Z. Thanks for the tip, will try on my buddys motif! In the meantime will see if mt Korg Triton has that fx insert or something similar!
Hi King, The sound isn't quite as nice as I would like. It sounds better if you leave in part of the piano patch, change the AEG for a gradual note attack, add in about 50% Chorus, Lots of Reverb with the time extended, and use the Sustain pedal.
I'm also trying to work out a patch on my Yamaha FS1R so I have more control over the sound.
At first the harmonics sounded like a cello, but as I listened more, I heard an organ-like effect as well. Fascinating!
wow this harmonic pedal stuff really sounds like a drugtrip
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If you take the right drug you can see the air striking the other strings and realize the physical process involved in this sympathetic vibration stuff! I have a guitar effects peddle that makes my guitar sound like this!
The Appassionata with Sympathetic resonance sounds like a score from a horror movie.
I want to use one for my neo psychedelic rock project
Only someone who had NO grasp or concept of sound would thumb down. Bravo!!!! For your post!!! This is incredible!!! A new way to create music. Thank you thank you thank you!!!!❤❤❤❤😉😉😉😉
I think he was Chopin in his past life
chopin wood?
He was chopin those notes
Stunning!! Well explained! Thank you for educating us in the power of the piano! The resonace practically sounds like a cathedral organ!
the jazz chord resonance sounds very familiar to me
I did notice this effect when playing guitar.. One or several other strings will vibrate and continue to vibrate after the main "struck" string has been muted and i always wondered if the same happens with a piano and i imagined it would be stronger than the guitar so this video helped me understand without buying and fidling with an expensive piano
I've never had to change the volume so many times in a single video
Completely unexpected, and amazing! If nobody has yet figured out how to do this with an electric piano, someone should do so immediately. It would make millions.
This video builds up but fails to deliver, in my opinion. I want to see it work, not just hear it. I want to see the mechanism. I want to know who invented this.
handyatmusic That's what Google & Wikipedia are for!
The mechanism is clearly explained in this video and quite easy to visualise if you understand the explanation given. Suppress the harmonics pedal and the dampers will raise from all the strings leaving them to vibrate freely, just like they do when you suppress the damper pedal. The difference here is, if you strike a note or several notes on the piano whilst keeping the harmonics pedal suppressed, then the damper(s) will dampen this or these notes only, while all untouched notes stay undamped with their dampers raised, leaving them to vibrate sympathetically to the note you struck. They also do this when you suppress the damper pedal, however they don't vibrate at nearly the same magnitude and volume as the key(s) you strike. There are 2 reasons for this, the obvious reason is that these other strings are not struck physically by the hammeraction, but are instead vibrated by the sound around them, this is what is called sympathetic vibration. The other reason is that most of these other notes don't have a particularly great resonant relationship with the struck fundamental note. The strings of these other notes prefer to vibrate at their own tuned fundamental frequencies and therefore they don't easily vibrate sympathetically to other frequencies, they are actually being forced to vibrate at an unnatural frequency and for this additional reason they will also tend to vibrate at a much lower magnitude/volume. And since the struck note is also undamped with the damper pedal, and left to vibrate freely with a much greater magnitude, it will easily overpower and drown the sound coming from all the other strings. Therefore the harmonics pedal was invented to dampen the struck note in order to avoid overpowering and drowning all this sympathetic resonance coming from the other notes.
You can purchase a piano from feurich with a harmonic pedal, I believe the piano is roughly 30 000 to 40 000 us dollars
However, the other strings can't magically vibrate unless the original strings are first struck -- which we don't hear in this video. That's what's so confusing about the audio in this video. We don't hear the original struck notes. Rather, I think we're hearing altered audio with the struck notes bits removed, leaving just the resonance bits. An interesting recording in itself, but not an actual demonstration of the pedal in use.
One of his other video does a good job of demonstrating what the harmonic pedal sounds like in "real" life. ua-cam.com/video/nAOvGraQv28/v-deo.html
On a synth it'd be like changing the attack and release on the envelope, then filtering through a phaser and going a bit crazy with reverb. Similar stuff happens. (Overtones via different reasons.) But there you can also reverse the sample waveform which is fun too.
i understanding killing the attack and increasing the release (i think thats right) as well as adding some reverb. Why the phaser though? how would that help recreate this organ-like sound? hoping to hear from you!
Interesting stuff. I would imagine a large church Organ has this similar feature naturally, as in that the pipes will resonate much more readily to sound waves, long after the initial pipe has been activated. These piano samples do sound fairly similar to the harmonic resonances you obtain via a church organ. But I have no detailed understanding of how church organs work, so this assumption might be completely wrong! But this video was a great example of resonance.
Kevin O'Brien Sorry, but im pretty shure that thats bullshit. A Organ doesnt get its sound by vibrating strings and resonance room, more like a lot of flutes. When one is playing, the others wont really "resonate". Its like holding a steel flute into a piano and hope that it makes tones ;)
I am sure your correct. But two adjacent organ pipes can influence each other, lots of experiments have proved it. But maybe not in same way as I have described. But unlike yourself I am no expert. physicsbuzz.physicscentral.com/2009/09/surprising-physics-of-pipe-organs.html
+Moritz Paul Holy shit, your flute example is the dumbest ever. Unlike piano strings, flutes are not tuned to a specific note, as they have to be able to play a wide range of notes. Thus, they will not have strong resonance with any particular note.
Moritz Paul As a pipe organ builder there is some sympathetic resonance. Not nearly the degree of a vibrating string, but columns of air of other adjacent pipes of different ranks can resonate slightly. It would be absolutely imperceptible to anyone not within inches of said pipes.
bennemann You are partly correct. Unlike an orchestral flute with lots of node points for all of its range, an organ pipe is a single pitch and has some sympathetic resonance as a result of the numerous multiple single pitches of the pipes.
I've wondered for quite some time why electric pianos haven't been able to replicate the sound of an acoustic grand piano to 100% accuracy. This certainly explains it!
In fact, it explains it very well. The information is presented slowly and clearly, so one can absorb the information. I like that about this video and wish that more video narrators who present scientific information would present it in the way that you do.
Hello Paul. Nice video. I just thought I'd correct one small thing. The device you were referring to is not commonly called "an electric piano". Rather that is a "workstation keyboard" or "digital piano". An electric piano is an analog device with metal tines, an amplifier, and sustain pedal. Electric pianos are commonly used in funk and R&B music (think Stevie Wonder or Ray Charles). Workstations and digital pianos use sampling to produce semi-realistic recreations of true analog pianos and other instruments.
I remember an article in Keyboard Magazine that touched on this difference and they called Rhodes like pianos, "Electric pianos" like you mention and the other type "Electronic Pianos."
Interestingly the Wurlitzer 200 series was marketed as an “electronic piano” to differentiate itself from the Rhodes.
You must have forgotten about the old Yamaha Electric Grand.. It did NOT have tines like the Rhodes. It had strings.
Basically, when the hammer strikes the string, the vibrations make the strings around it go off slightly as well, so these sounds are just the strings around EXCEPT the string being struck
Reminded me of the sloth from Zootopia. Flash, Flash, hundred yard dash!
There are different kinds of reverbs. A large hall, like a church, has a long reverbration. We have also created artificial reverb devices, e.g. spring and plate types. So, Paul has created a new artificial reverb device using the strings of a piano. This is a nice audio demonstration, and the sounds are nice. But keep in mind that it is still just another way of creating a reverb device, however an amazing idea.
This is very beautiful. Thank you.
As a so called ' musician' and semi-retired minister of Word and music, I completely understand the principles of physically caused sound (produced by physical action/means) and residual sound (sound which resides in physical/hearable form from a physical cause)
Fine bit of teaching old chap. The world would be darker in deed with out you U.K. people's let your light keep shining and your mind's fear nothing.
You can simulate this in software by recording a 'chord' which includes every note being played on sampled (or real) piano at the same time, until the notes fade away, and then using that as the impulse-response for a convolution based reverb (theoretically it's a perfect simulation). It sounds mental if you use other instruments to generate the reverb, or play other instruments through it too.
whats the jazz chord progression? im honestly obsessed with that
Yes! I slowed it down by 20% with Audacity and spent about an hour listening to each pair of chords on repeat -- that way it's easier to pick it out one voice moving up, down, staying the same or disappearing. There's a lot of reverb so it's hard to distinguish some of the harmonics, so there might be extra (or missing) notes, so correct the bits of this that are wrong:
A C E G (Amin7) x2
F B E A (Fmaj7b5) x2
F Bb D A C (Dmin7 add6 / F?) x2
G C E A (Amin7 / G)
Gb Cb Eb Ab B (Ab min7 / Gb)
F Bb D A C (Dmin7 add6 / F)
G Db F G Bb (Gmin7b5)
Gb B E A (Gbmin7sus4? -- quartal chord)
Gb C F Bb D (Cmin9sus4 / Gb - another quartal chord over a tritone?)
F B E G# B (E major over tritone of Db7?)
F Bb Eb Ab C (Fmin7sus4 -- aka "So What" chord)
Bb E Ab C Eb (Abmaj9b6 / Bb?)
A D G C E (Amin7sus4, another "So What" chord)
:)
You can also use shift + comma to slow something down on youtube or shift + period to speed it up. Goes in 25% increments though. Doesn't change pitch, sounds better on UA-cam then when I do it in a DAW for some reason.
And thanks for sharing this :D
I believe these are pretty standard jazz chords without bass (rootless) and voiced mostly in the so called "upper structure", e.g. a tritone interval followed by a triad in second inversion. This makes them sound a bit vague and even mystic :) Add the corresponding bass and they will make sense to you. For example Gb C F Bb D is just a D7alt (D missing), so it's more correctly: (D) F# C E# Bb D. The chord that follows is apparently a G7b9: (G) F B E Ab B. And so on.
Thanks for that insight! Rootless chords are something I only started to pay attention to recently, and their ambiguity seems to require understanding where a chord progression is likely to go. A good exercise :)
batlin wow need to copy this when on pc
Sounds like a cello and pipe organ mixed together but with the rumble sound you get when you loudly play a low note on an acoustic piano. That’s the best I can describe it.
Interesting that some people choose to comment on your speech patterns rather than on the content of your video.
rubinsteinway
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Yes it is disturbing rubinsteinway.
The first "electric" piano you showed was actually an electronic sampling keyboard. Keyboards referred to as "electro-acoustic" are Wurlitzer, Fender Rhodes, Hohner Pianet & Clavinet, they all produce sound (via tines or strings) acoustically that is amplified.
Reminds me of an Aeolian Harp
Oh, hello past self, I didn't know you were here!
Wtf man lol
I remember doing this when I was young, never thought about it being used musically. We had an upright piano and I would pull the face off, strike a key and damper the string to hear the result.
leave the guy alone...
Luis, you are so right. It's a fascinating video, with amazing sounds, and yet some people feel it necessary to make irrelevant, unnecessary remarks. And, by the way, I love Paul's Yorkshire accent!
mr Panda Danny straight.
No
So after reading like 50 comments I stumble upon this area of comments. A section that has good views/intentions, but I didn't read any negative comments before scrolling here. There only examples of what others are saying but your shinning light on there negativity. Just the thought of a negative intention carries out as energy, vibrations that make ripples. This is why you can tell someone is mad when you walk into the same house/room, you feel the vibrational frequency. Same reason why you can feel someone staring at you.
Keep the good vibes, except the bad but do not spread.
I love you all..
You can test it at home with 2 plants or 2 jars of rice, Check out Dr. Emoto's work..
Sounds like cathedral bells.
On a Digital Audio software this is a sound you can achieve by applying 100% wet and 0% dry reverb (room reverb with exaggerated settings for example) on a normal piano recording. I also think that these sounds are used in movie scores.
I don't understand how people can put "dislikes" to this video..
Me. Neither. It. Is. A pretty. Good. Video.
It's a good video honestly.
For the.....talk....I guess....with..... it's...breakes
DON'T JUDGE HE. HE TRIED HIS BEST :,(
Great analogy between the sympathetic vibrations & solar corona - and beautiful, surreal examples. I think Joe Zawinul did something like this in the very 1st Weather Report album, in the piece called "Milky Way".
It's really quite a neat gadget but save yourself the awful, stilted delivery and repetition of the same info. Watch 3:42-5:32 then skip directly to 7:18 to hear the examples of what it really does.
Thanks Paul, I am self taught and your videos and performances are just so good.
Wonderful except everything has to be played at glacial pace otherwise the result is aural mud as all the harmonics clash in a cacophony.
I've recognized the extra sounds in pianos before (not to this clarity), but hearing them like this... I could barely contain the tears in my eyes when I heard Moonlight Sonata the first time.
C L A S S I C A L V A P O R W A V E 8:04
Yep. When I majored in music in College the theory teacher demonstrated this in the first semester. If you listen to a convolution reverb with the dry mix off mix listening to the effect side it sounds a lot like these examples of sympathetic harmonics and resonance. Very organ like at times.
The coolest video on UA-cam. Period.
Kavoos k lol
vimeo.com/157743578 try this one!
dragon master Hey I checked out that video, wow that was genius ,Thanks .
So appreciative to have heard this. Really the first time I have actually had such a wonderful example to hear demonstrated.
sounds like an organ. Brilliant
Get the best of both worlds - great
The actual sympathetic resonance and dampining is shown at 3:50
Please do acknowledge that dampening the string also dampens the sympathetic resonance, by the way its not like we're fully hacking physics to let us hear objects sympathetically resonate when the original object is at rest.
Why don't we see him playing whilst using the resonance thing? makes me think it was computer generated and that they still have to produce this stuff.
Yes you can, he explained how
The note is struck, then dampened. So only the strings that aren't used in the chord are played.
Miner Scale no you can’t. the note actually has to be played first, these are altered recordings
Daniel Revenkov
He said the only added affect was a slight bit of amplification so you could hear the resonant notes better. The whole instrument vibrates when the chords are struck which is why you hear all the strings even when the struck notes are immediately muted.
There’s absolutely no way to do this without editing, but the sounds themselves are not computer generated. First he plays the chords like normal. The vibration from those struck strings cause all of the other strings to resonate. He then mutes the strings that were struck by the hammers, leaving the others to resonate. Once he’s played all the chords in this manner, he edits out the sound from the period of the chords beings struck until they are muted, leaving only the sympathetic resonance. These clips are stitched together to produce the track you’re hearing. That’s why there’s a slight degree of ducking in between the resonant chords, he’s (I assume) cross fading the clips together so that it doesn’t sound jittery.
Michael Ian Ross thank you, some people can’t understand simple logic
I feel like you just explained the beauty behind the music, amazing.
Listening to this is like watching shadows of invisible people or things. Spooky.
*WOW!!!* Just *WOW!!!* I knew about sympathetic resonance, but this is the first time hearing it!
Thanks for this!!!
I can only say that the piano sonata nr.14 op.27 nr.2 sounds much better on a accoustic piano compared to a digital piano.
Simracing &More You could've just called it moonlight sonata .-.
That's because with a digital you are not hearing those harmonic overtones. No digital piano, no matter how good the samples are can compare to an acoustic piano.
Hauntingly beautiful. Like hearing, not the strike, but only the reverberation of a bell.
I just got an idea.
Aspirative Music Production
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This sounds like music created by 'outline' of the note. It feels like we're hearing the 'outline' like a looking at a puzzle with all the pieces except one, but you are able to grasp what that piece looks like by what's around it. The Pieces on the edge that share similarities, and borders with that sound, but aren't quite it. It's actually quite interesting.
Holy shit, The comments are so bad just disable the comments please spare everyone of the cancer.
Ive always heard the reasonance. I thought it was because the piano was really old. I hope the acoustic piano remains popular forever. I forget what that stop is on the organ. You really can't help how you speak. Good video.
Subject matter is great. But his intonation is stochastic and unsettling. Completely at odds with his musicality.
Fuck you Trevor... You complain about everything. Just shut up.
Tom Day you are a child
Trevor Keogh you are giving me a semi.
Mr Barton speaks with a Yorkshire accent. How was it at odds with the content? Do Yorkshiremen not play piano? What a ridiculous (if not bigoted) comment. How did you become so insular that you can't handle listening to a native English speaker who is from a different country to yourself?
It's nice the way it adds some angst through the notes half steps above the ones being played
Oh my. God, why.. Do people who talk. About Classical music. Typically talk.. Like this?
Because they don't natively speak English
Or maybe they just talk like that no matter if they care about classical music. You don't know their life stories.
Chicken Permission Aspergers
What do you mean lol
Yassin Osman | They probably didn't learn English while they were young
Sound demonstration starts at 7:20 for those wondering
You are a charming man, Paul.
This is amazing! Thanks for sharing!
Hello. everyone. I'm Paul. Barton. and today. were gonna be looking at. some sounds. that have never. been. heard on. the piano. before.
codmaster4488 He's like Christopher Walken's lost brother. The opposite.
I found this post very informative. And the demonstrations of the various sounds derived from a piano show that wood is good!