A nice pleasing piano piece on a very strange looking piano

[YoDude]

Ran across this one, thought you guys might like it!



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[Lechy]

I do enjoy a little Bach.

[Designer]

Indeed that is one unusual Piano! not ever have I seen one like that.

Looks like they wanted a "Bass Boost" so those made those strings longer?

[YoDude]

Ya know? I can't tell for sure. Sounds just like any other piano I've heard before. Might have something to do with harmonics or something. Seems like making strings longer would require tightening them up quite a lot to get the same notes. Perhaps it's just hollow space to allow the sound to resonate more?

One thing I can say is that the, "Boogie Woogie" guy, I've posted here before would have a total blast on this one, but then again there would be the old school piano instructors that would simply cringe and fall over dying if they let the dude play it.

Here's a fresh example...



Enjoy,

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[Designer]

Hey YoDude (aka: Steve ) You piqued my interest, so I checked it out:


This 19-foot piano has the longest bass strings in the world – and it sounds huge
13 July 2021, 17:48 | Updated: 14 July 2021,

Pianist Hyperion Knight plays the Alexander Piano
By Kyle Macdonald

Just listen to the incredible, deep sound of this beast of a piano, which is twice the length of a concert hall Steinway.

A few years ago New Zealand piano builder Adrian Alexander Mann fancied a challenge – he wanted to build the world’s longest piano.

“I just wanted to hear what a long bass string sounded like,” he says.

So in the mid-noughties, he set about creating his mammoth act of instrument-making. The process required a lot of problem-solving, improvisation, discovery and a touch of luck – read all about it in Mann’s very interesting blog on the process.

Remarkably, Mann was just 15 when he began the project.
In 2009, the instrument was complete. The ‘Alexander Piano’ is 18 feet and nine inches, or 5.7 meters, long, and weighs over a metric ton.

For context, that’s over twice the length of your usual concert hall grand. And that length is all about housing those epic bass strings.

Let’s listen to the instrument in action. And we couldn’t resist sharing this performance of grand, sonorous, virtuosic Liszt. Turn your headphones up loud and enjoy this absolute beast of a piano!

In case you’re wondering what a longer string actually means for pitch and tone, as with an upright piano compared to a Steinway Model D, a longer string does not impact pitch, but gives the note a much richer, more resonant tone, with deeper harmonics and greater projection.

At the top of the page, pianist Hyperion Knight thundering out some Bach. Listen out for the fugue at one minute in, and that incredible resonance of the lower voices.


Read about it here:
https://www.classicfm.com/discover-musi ... the-world/

[YoDude]

Well that explains a bit more about it.

It IS very rich sounding on the bass notes, especially towards the end. If I have my sound system set to play it at concert hall pitch I'm quite sure I could, "feel" the base much less hear it. My neighbors are home now , so that's prohibitive.

Anyway thanks for that bit, Ed.

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