Can You Hear the Difference Between a 1800s Piano and a Modern piano? 

Not...

No!!! Old is good sound

Yes

@@DrNothing23 highly subjective🎹🎶

it sound like a small grand piano. i had a guess what it is. but the old piano is terrible, would never play that othside of a western salon

Muscle memory. It’s not a super advanced skill, more like a medium skill. Not trying to be rude.

But the other half...

It's not hard to play without looking at the keyboard. But looking AWAY while playing, that's difficult. Because it completely changes the way you play.

Try watching blind pianists play🎹🎶

Легко

lol

The eyes seem to follow you.

jajaja

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xwFL01yi4Sg.html They definitely sounded different, but not necessarily like his.

I think they'd love the sound of our modern piano. Liszt changed his old one for a new one when he was very old already. This nostalgia for sounds of old pianos is an "our generation" thing. They were always looking for new and better sound ones.

The qualities of the medium influences the art. Stereo allowed a greater clarity of sound and more instruments in the mix, which changed studio productions. LPs had two sides and the order of tracks was optimized for that, CDs were optimized for being listened uninterrupted, modern music is happening on playlists, so there is no connection anymore between songs required. 70s synth never could sound like real instruments, so they were used for their own qualities right into the 80s when they started to be used to compensate for other instruments in a cheaper way. Tik Tok requires a minute of music without an intro and tracks meant to be promoted that way have pretty much become that. Pop music is not meant to be sung by opera singers and Freddie Mercury's Barcelona (which was specifically written for his and Montserrat Cabllé's voices) lead to an avalanche of mediocre operatic pop covers, which never should have existed.

@@user-ye2sm1gq7l That's not the question though. Old pianos sound different, achieve a different sound effect, and not necessarily a worse one. The question is if these compositions would still be composed in the same way if they were written with the modern piano in mind.

Yes, I'm sure Bach would have embraced Sustain & Sostenuto pedals - and absolutely loved a Wurlitzer Pipe Organ.

It's like it was made for that specific genre

It almost sounds like two different instruments in accompaniment.

Exactly, I prefer the modern piano for all pieces except those from Scott Joplin.

@@paulcutty8048Which is amazing as Scott Joplin is the modern composer compared to the other ones.

3:20 You don't say!

That's because 1800s piano is a honky-tonk, it was customised specifically for playing ragtime.

I don't know if it's just the condition of the piano or that is just how it is with older pianos🎹🎶

​@@jarekwrzosek2048if you listen to Roberts Pianos videos on old pianos they don't sound quite like this🎹🎶

Indeed. The old one sounds much more like the sort of piano that you would find in a British pub and very good for playing boogie woogie etc.

@@MERCEDES-BENZS600GUARD_V12 It's neither. Honky-tonks are specially customized, with hammers covered with metal plates, instead the usual felt, hence the brighter, tinny sound.

Thankyou!

@@Lord_Vinheteiro Who painted it for you?

@@LoveClassicMusic0205Probably painted it while staring at the camera. 😂

The old one sounds more like a pub piano. Yhe modern one has a much fuller rounded sound.

Hahaha! Very observant. It's a bit unsettling isn't it?!

Yeah the old one sounds closer to the chemballo

I suspect the newer piano might sound more like the older one as the wood ages. As the cells of the wood collapse or lose their natural internal oils.

Warmer, like a tube amplifier.

You’re thinking of a tack piano.

Never heard of tack piano, so looked it up. You are absolutely right! Thanks for the pointer! @@nmccw3245

I wondered the same. Also do different species of tree make for different sounds? Plus the best violins it turns out the wood marinated in ocean water by necessity due to the location of the city waiting for the wood to be needed. Forming salt crystals giving Stradivarius violins their amazing tone. So a guitar maker tried the same trick and got an upgrade.

Nope, it didn't sound like this when new. When the hammers wear down, they become harder and the sound becomes brighter.

Same. Has a more "Classical" sound to it, considering it was what it was originally played on.

Nothing edgy about that, I prefer it too. It just sounds better

@@ChanceTMno, that’s not the type of instrument the prices were originally played on

Me too, its much better to hear, and also the sound is so much clear! 😊❤❤

Me too. It's how those pieces would have sounded, originally.

But not authentic to Joplin himself.

I hear it as the modern piano has a more full, rounded tone while the older one is very thin or sharp (tonally, not musically)