It does my heart good to see such dedication to hand-built artistry in our modern age. Thank you!
@paulfreeman4900
3 жыл бұрын
A very special moment when it speaks for the first time.
@TheTalemaster
3 жыл бұрын
Happy 250th Birthday, Beethoven!
@kyleethekelt
3 жыл бұрын
Oh wow. Was that the sound of the thing being made? Narration would have helped here. As I'm blind I had to guess. Lovely tone, though. I can never hear Beethoven on a modern piano since I listened to a variety of fortepiano. Keep up the fantastic work.
@Adrian-cg7jc
3 жыл бұрын
Yeah, classic pianos are elite
@RobBrogan
3 жыл бұрын
Yes, it was a montage of different stages from the carpentry, to applying the dark stain to the wood, adding the strings, and then seeing a close up of someone applying glue to the hammers and then carefully aligning the strip of felt around the tip. With everything nearly done, you see someone playing a bit of a sonata to test it out and then it fades away. I wish we could get a full performance though!
@fortepiano-enthusiast
11 ай бұрын
@@RobBrogan kzitem.info/door/OLAK5uy_l-7AVBMGgr52skGj548wPvub7U7k2SGF0&si=f8zQzMyXWdi5Pich These were all recorded on the same piano that was featured here.
@calrob300
10 ай бұрын
Wonderful craftsmanship, and great historical research, but i just don't like the sound. I don't hear why ppl rave about these instruments. I'll bet Beethoven would take the 9' Steinway concert grand over his own tinny sounding piano any day.
@rhyfelwrDuw
3 жыл бұрын
I was like - wow look at those dovetail joints - a lot of furniture these days don't use them! Beautiful instrument - a lot of work went into making it!
@AmadeusPiano
5 жыл бұрын
guys thank you so much for posting this. I'm restoring a historical erard right now and this comes in so useful to watch and very inspiring. Amazing undertaking. Congratulations. Please let me know what the powder you are using when putting in piano tuning pins.
@henriquerabelo2769
4 жыл бұрын
Hello! Could you clarify one doubt I have? In page 653 of the 2th volume of Taruskin's The Oxford History of Western Music, there's a photo of the 1803 Erard presented to Beethoven, but in the photo the piano has 4 pedals. But I see that in other videos the mechanism of this piano was still played with the knees. Would you please have explanatory comments about that?
@AmadeusPiano
4 жыл бұрын
Henrique Rabelo Thank you so much for the note. Yes In the harpsichord era, transitioning to modern piano, the knee-action pedals were eventually phased out. But since we weren’t pumping air with our legs as in an organ, the manufacturer thought we’d have an extra leg available. Thank you again for the note
@ritschardt
4 жыл бұрын
Probably talc
@davidmann8254
3 жыл бұрын
@@ritschardt I don’t understand why.
@mariovrpereira
3 жыл бұрын
@@davidmann8254 it is used as solid lubricant so you can tune without excessive friction
@marodrey
3 жыл бұрын
It's aliiive!!! Such a perfect creature.... ♡♡♡♡♡
@fatitankeris6327
2 жыл бұрын
True.
@colinmurphy2214
6 жыл бұрын
3:53 Waldstein Sonata
@johannsebastianbach7920
6 жыл бұрын
M's Compositions thats what i was thinking
@Carl-ri6nq
5 жыл бұрын
@@johannsebastianbach7920 haha same
@rattywoof5259
3 жыл бұрын
Well spotted!
@MrStojkovicj
3 жыл бұрын
That's Tom Beghin from McGill University - I had a Beethoven seminar with him! - Very weird pianist..
@douro20
3 жыл бұрын
@@MrStojkovicj Still a world-class performer.
@wilsonclark3072
2 жыл бұрын
truly an amazing recreation
@virginiavaleri2559
2 ай бұрын
Bellissimo lavoro!!!
@benedictdsilva3954
Жыл бұрын
Very well built......
@voraciousreader3341
4 ай бұрын
Fabulous!
@lindamclean8809
6 жыл бұрын
Fascinating
@enthusedtosing9655
2 жыл бұрын
Beautiful.
@EmdrGreg
3 жыл бұрын
Lovely.
@Renshen1957
4 ай бұрын
A question, will the Beethoven's Erard have the same modifications to the action as Beethoven required as he did not fully approve of the original form?
@ryanpmcguire
6 жыл бұрын
Waldstein spotted at 3:51
@Joe_Yacketori
2 жыл бұрын
Lol, I love how literally the second thing he plays is just the gliss from the third movement.
@khe84
7 ай бұрын
I somehow presumed that before cast iron plate era strings in piano are bi-chord at best because woods can't hold those string's force? and imagined strings are much much thinner but here I'm they are all tri-chords and look at that thick beckets they have! what's that white-ish powder when the technician's stringing? perhaps it's for the enough friction. What a rare footage making old piano! do they still sell or not? probably it's much easier to make (i mean because of cast iron, modern pianos are impossible to be done by individuals you know) and lightweight!
@josephhapp9
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you.
@christopherriley1968
3 жыл бұрын
A touch of Jerry Lee at the end there! That always seals it! Mr. R. 😉🎶
@cantineroazul
6 жыл бұрын
Gracias por tan bello trabajo
@pedrokoury1352
6 жыл бұрын
beautiful
@docmichaelkru3377
11 ай бұрын
This is a copy of the Erard or a renovation of the Beethoven instrument?
@dafyliz
5 жыл бұрын
OMG so satisfying
@HollywoodF1
3 жыл бұрын
Have you considered any noise attenuation material in your shop? Might make it a nicer place to work.
@dibaldgyfm9933
7 жыл бұрын
More explanations are needed, if I am to understand. Are you making the actions? (Indeed yes! Edited.) Modern piano-makers often buy actionboards from fx. Renner(?) The procedure for making a Beethoven Erard (and actions thereof) must be simpler but perhaps more sensitive to materials and maker's precision? I don't know? I follow the link ...
@Johannes_Brahms65
3 жыл бұрын
That slide in octaves certainly doesn't work on my Steinway piano!
@murdo_mck
3 жыл бұрын
Schiff does it, on some Steinways. I think he used his own at Wigmore Hall. If seeing is believing watch Annique Göttler: dZi-6lxmmQg at 22:29
@magkarras3329
2 жыл бұрын
Do you think it is possible to make a piano at home in our Arabic countries
@creativecolours2022
Жыл бұрын
This video makes me wonder how the heck the old pianoforte manufacturers made these instruments without the use of power tools.
@Zephyrus47
3 жыл бұрын
I'd pay a lot to get something like this. Where would you get one of these?
@murdo_mck
3 жыл бұрын
Paul McNulty fortepiano dot eu
@qwaqwa1960
3 жыл бұрын
Didn't André Stein modify the action...?
@williamsackelariou1860
Жыл бұрын
Can you please have an acknowledged Beethoven master play it for us
That's what I like to see white glue everywhere none of your messy smelly animal glue . Seriously though a maker of this caliber should be using hide glue generally for all parts under stress as well a action parts. Is he using PVA, please tell me if I am wrong.
@dibaldgyfm9933
4 жыл бұрын
I thought the same; they build a replica using modern tools, that is OK, but the glue? Also I wondered what the purpose is. The demo in the end sounds awfully because a new piano gets out of tune the moment you left it after tuning. But when tuned a dozen times it begins to sound better.
@Nicolas-zb9uw
3 жыл бұрын
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@lukasfrancis4567
4 ай бұрын
I thought the thumbnail was Spider-Man
@davidevans3227
3 жыл бұрын
LoL.. i thought we were going to see and or hear a "piano" that Beethoven played?? its strange to see them re- creating something like this, but also, great, lovely to see..
@worldwideuploads
3 жыл бұрын
I thought Erard was an English piano maker.
@19Edurne
3 жыл бұрын
French but emigrated to London later, after the Revolution.
@ep6927
3 жыл бұрын
@@19Edurne worked in both countries.
@levistrauss8310
2 жыл бұрын
Erard was a Parisian piano manufacturer, the firm always maintained a facility in Paris, France from 1777-1959. Erard moved to London, England during the French Revolution and remained in England until about the mid-late 19th century. Between the Paris and London Erard pianos, the best ones are made in Paris. Although there are some really fine London Erard pianos that I am aware of.
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