@@aldoringo439 Actually i think it has a nice sound, i mean..this thing is 135 years old. But honestly i am not a fan of Chopin, sounds completly random.
Yesterday I learned that Chopin's piano from the 1840's had narrower keys than pianos have now. Apparently during Chopin's and Liszt's time, there was no standard keyboard size and small pianos with narrow keys were very common, even in the drawing rooms of great musicians and composers. Kinda makes me feel better about not being able to play all the crazy shit they wrote.
As a casual pianist with small hands, damn this makes me feel better. I think Liszt had enormous hands anyway, but I've always struggled with just an octave, so having narrower keys would have made a world of difference in my playing.
I'm surprised that narrower keys is just now becoming popular thanks to musicalbasics videos, I knew they existed but I never knew there was someone actually producing them to this day
@@vickenator I'm the same. I have child sized hands and can just stretch a 9th but I'm right on the edge of the keys. Narrower keys also explains why even female composers of the time often wrote 10ths in their music.
The melancholy and nostalgia of Chopin's pieces are always so lovely, all Chopin’s works have both found emotions. His music always touches the soul and the heart of the human being. Excellent performance! And could you please upload a video performing Waltz in b minor op69 no2, Funeral March and Nocturne op72 No1? Thanks!
The tinny sound comes from the changes that occur in the metal of the strings, starting about 5 years after the strings are made. The metal forms larger crystals over time, making the string harder and somewhat uneven. The strings on this piano are probably about 20 to 40 years old. Chopin died in 1849, so 1887 would have seemed super modern to him. In Chopin's time the strings would have been thinner and softer, probably making a softer and mellower sound than what we hear from modern pianos. Chopin's girlfriend was a novelist who used the pen name George Sand. She broke up with Chopin and later became the girlfriend of Liszt.
5yrs old and already in need of change. Wow, that's a very expensive endeavor. How much better, natural would the sound would be on brand new strings I wonder. Is it because piano strings are under constant tension. Now if such change occurs in steel strings, how about other metals.
Thank you for this information. I could not listen to all of this (that tinny sound) was not sure of what was making this so awful. You would think that there would be no way to ruin this music, with a world class pianist at the keys. On this piano, even Chopin's best efforts sound like aggravating noise. This sounds like the old time saloon pianos, with the tacks attached to the hammers for enough volume in a crowded room. Sounds awful, like Chopin's music in this video. Thank you for explaining the problem with the strings. In addition, the felts are probably down to nothing.Strange, since someone has to have provided some maintenance, for the exterior of a 127 year old piano to look that good Would be interesting to hear with a change of strings, and maybe some attention to the hammers Thank you for an excellent comment.
@Scott Shepard Chopin’s companion was indeed George Sand, but she didn’t become Liszt’s lover after their break-up. There were rumours that they were lovers BEFORE, but both of them denied it. They both had really so many lovers they could have easily admitted this, too if it was true. So probably it wasn’t. Marie d’Agoult was the ‘girlfriend’ of Liszt in the 1830s and beginning 40s. Sand was friends with both Marie and Liszt and probably she got to know Chopin at one of their soirées. Marie tried to seduce Chopin, too at this time. She had some sort of a muse complex and Liszt wasn’t composing very much at the time, he was mostly on concert tours. She was envious of Sand and couldn’t bear it that she had a better componist as lover than her. Their relationship soured. So did the relationship between Chopin and Liszt, after Liszt used Chopin’s apartment for some lovemaking with Pleyel’s wife. Pleyel was Chopin’s good friend and business partner as well as his piano maker. Chopin found this extremely distasteful and together with the Sand-d’Agould problem the 4 of them didn’t see each other any more.
The Military Polonaise brought back many memories. One of the teachers at my ballet school was very fond of this piece of music for class excercises. After hearing it every week for many years, that piece is permanently imprinted on my memory. The Great Brilliant Waltz--Tom & Jerry it is!
I see you're playing by memory, thank you so much for your performance. People don't understand why I buy a keyboard with 50 different sounds and only use the piano sounds. Your piano brings back memories of lessons as a child. Awesome video.
Wonderful!!! The Heroic Polonaise has been one of my most favorite pieces, every since I was a small child! All the others are wonderful, too! I love the works of Chopin! Well done! Thank you!
I went to school in Poland, so Chopin was force-fed to us. As an effect, I couldn't appreciate his music. I regained my appreciation after seeing Polański's "The Pianist".
My absolute favourite movie, and in my opinion, the saddest movie ever. I really recommend it to anyone who has an interest in the Second World War, it’s based on a real story about the Warsaw Ghetto and a Jewish pianist in hiding getting help from many different people, including a German officer.
This is funny because I basically learned about Chopin on the streets. My piano teacher would not let me play any Chopin because I "was not ready" but a classmate of mine was a child prodigy, so when we played football on the playground at recess he would tell me what Chopin tunes to buy records of.
Thank you so much for your comment. I googled the movie out of curiosity) I've always liked Chopin, but I've never saw this movie. Tonight I watched it, and it is Incredible. The story is insane. And the saddest part is that it is based on real events. Totally recommend this movie to anyone interested in the World War II history and the piano. Haven't played the piano for almost 6 years now, and I want to start again now Dziekuje jeszcze raz
Mistro... you selected my favorite Chopin compositions which I learned to play at an earlier age. Even in a bar room piano the beautiful and dynamic Chopin piece sound so pleasing.
Gorgeous playing, thank you! You reveal how exceptionally beautiful Chopin's piano compositions were with your exquisite playing on this amazing piano. I have subscribed.
Awesome. It sounds like old vinyl. Although I prefer Chopin on grand piano. Candelabras are amazing and they have candles 😁 I adore Chopin, maybe because I'm Polish.🤪
These videos where you exercise this antique piano are my favorites. Given Chopin passed away in 1849, his was a very recent memory indeed when this was crafted.
sounds great, its interesting how it has a sound I associate with 'old west' pianos in movies, which was contemporary. I understand the biggest change in piano manufacturing is the strength of the iron u that the strings are pulled taught over; it was something Beethoven sought during his life but the technology didn't exist until the turn of the century.
That last one he played, I remember having a songbook that had a bunch of Barry Manilow tunes in it and that melody was used to open one of his songs. Yeah, Chopin was truly one of the greats and I've heard his music is very challenging to play.
Dude , I have no doubt you might one of the best piano players on earth. I wish I could play piano like that, but with all my mechanical knowledge of the instrument, I have a problem with separation of the left and right hands and the muscle memory of the two handed base lined and fill in scales , however I can melt your brain with the guitar , base, and drums, but on piano I just play for ambience and occasional background music. You have immense talent. Very well played
Play the key notes of the piano gradually it will help your coordination with the muscle memory of your fingers. It may seem boring to play more slow repetitively, but it helps your understanding of the accompaniment better. The more you practice slowly, helping your maneuvers with your fingers to know where the notes live, the more you will be able to understand the structure of the genre or song you are currently playing. I hope that helps your ability, it is what I learned from piano teachers at school and its progression as a pianist and play by ear.
No wonder revolutionary sounds aged because it was made by the atmosphere of the sounds by that wire's quality of that era. Beautifully crafted. That's why I love Chopin musics.
After watching the Hannibal series and going through the list of classical pieces used as soundtracks I have completely fallen on love woth Chopin his work and now I regularly listen to Nocturne in the car.
Minha profe tinha um piano parecidíssimo com esse, inclusive com os candelabros. Era muito bom tocar nele, as teclas bem "amaciadas" e de marfim, o som bem nítido e limpo. Saudade das aulas de piano! 🥰
Sounds like a 1900's cinema! I was only listening to most of this video, but was picturing lots of bossom clutching and swooning, brutish bulies, brave little men coming to the rescue, horses miling about and disguised heroine triumphs! You should have added the whir and click of a vintage projector and edited to grainy, jumpy B&W...
Great sampling of Chopin.. thanks! His music is so magical and dream-like.. like on a whole different plane of reality. I wish I could bring it alive as well as you!
Show off!!! 😂🤣 Well, Chopin's music 🎶 definitely sounds much different on this type of piano 🎹 than a so-called "typical piano", because it almost seems like it's being modified with chorus and maybe even reverb effects (perhaps because of the piano's old age??) Who really knows?? After all, its strings and the wood are a little bit looser, ie, unless they have been replaced or the piano 🎹 was restored?? However, I just luv the way it sounds!! 👂🏻🎹🎶🎵🎼 Bravo 👏🏻 señor!! Muchas gracias 🙏 y buenas días!!
