Hear the World’s Oldest Piano at The Met Museum

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  • čas přidán 11. 06. 2018
  • When Bartolomeo Cristofori constructed his "gravicembalo col piano e forte" (harpsichord with soft and loud) in the early 1700s, he wasn’t trying to create a new instrument - he was actually trying to build a harpsichord with a little more control. WQXR host Jeff Spurgeon visited the The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Department of Musical Instruments to speak with curator Jayson Dobney about the oldest piano in existence.
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  • @arijralvarez341
    @arijralvarez341 Před 3 lety +6446

    “The world’s shortest video of the world’s oldest piano”

    • @thamyris8953
      @thamyris8953 Před 3 lety +127

      "The world's newest video of the world's oldest piano"

    • @SeanNH94
      @SeanNH94 Před 3 lety +33

      Gotta appeal to the ADHD crowd

    • @janetwestwood9194
      @janetwestwood9194 Před 3 lety +3

      🎹 👈👀👉 🦳👌

    • @kymikaz4433
      @kymikaz4433 Před 3 lety +5

      @@janetwestwood9194 eh?

    • @ss11733
      @ss11733 Před 3 lety +20

      and there's a guy talking over the playing for 90% of the video

  • @jimp4170
    @jimp4170 Před 3 lety +7923

    Nobody cares enough about the pianist to tell us who he is? "Oh, he's just a servant. Pay no attention to him."

    • @ronaldevans510
      @ronaldevans510 Před 3 lety +1270

      His NAME is Dongsok Shin, and he's one of the world's foremost experts on historical keyboard instruments, is more qualified to play this particular instrument than anyone I know, is an astonishing musician and continuo player, and one of the most talented and easy to get along with fellow musicians I've ever worked with. And YES, its ridiculous that they didn't credit him properly, considering his contributions over the decades to the musical programs at the Metropolitan Museum, and to the NYC cultural scene at large.

    • @parksb505
      @parksb505 Před 3 lety +104

      @@ronaldevans510 wow

    • @ebisu_kctao
      @ebisu_kctao Před 3 lety +6

      I don't.

    • @Kinobambino
      @Kinobambino Před 3 lety +20

      @@ronaldevans510 nice

    • @MadaxeMunkeee
      @MadaxeMunkeee Před 3 lety +150

      “He’s our asian. You don’t have an Asian?”

  • @ronaldogarrosu2999
    @ronaldogarrosu2999 Před 4 lety +19442

    Just realized now that the piano is basically a harp that is played with hammers. Can't believe it took me this long to see it.

    • @makar1415
      @makar1415 Před 3 lety +947

      Harpsichords are even closer to one since the strings are plucked rather than struck!

    • @WantonSoup192
      @WantonSoup192 Před 3 lety +56

      This. czcams.com/video/nveP3RYc3H8/video.html

    • @jimwalsingham1827
      @jimwalsingham1827 Před 3 lety +188

      @@makar1415 And the clavichord is a guitar with keys. Sometimes fretted so 2 or 3 notes are produced with 1 string.

    • @1fiddysquiddy386
      @1fiddysquiddy386 Před 3 lety +57

      U didn't know that??

    • @Ostsol
      @Ostsol Před 3 lety +14

      A hammered dulcimer fits that description, too. Pianos just have a heck of a lot of hammers...

  • @jacobygears2843
    @jacobygears2843 Před 3 lety +8375

    everyone gangsta till the piano player playing the old piano snaps one of the old strings

    • @madturklad
      @madturklad Před 3 lety +520

      i'm pretty sure the strings have been changed

    • @capybara9521
      @capybara9521 Před 3 lety +30

      Bruh

    • @tchaffman
      @tchaffman Před 3 lety +214

      I'd imagine everything short of the shell has been replaced or restored in this instrument

    • @Unknown-bi7mf
      @Unknown-bi7mf Před 3 lety +6

      Oof

    • @Granola_cat
      @Granola_cat Před 3 lety +44

      Put it back and walk away like it never happened

  • @benjdoc
    @benjdoc Před 3 lety +3068

    i just heard the oldest piano in the world. nice.

    • @DJTechno94
      @DJTechno94 Před 3 lety +7

      yes.

    • @ichinihq
      @ichinihq Před 3 lety +2

      @@twistedteapotbeyblade8107 it doesn’t matter...?

    • @ichinihq
      @ichinihq Před 3 lety

      @@twistedteapotbeyblade8107 totally understand :)

    • @j.6378
      @j.6378 Před 3 lety +11

      no man, you heard a digital recording of it played through a vibrating piece of paper. sadly, we live in a society.

    • @codernakul
      @codernakul Před 3 lety

      yesn't

  • @xbmpr
    @xbmpr Před 5 lety +7445

    I thought the piano was way older than the 1700's

    • @der-lii7051
      @der-lii7051 Před 4 lety +84

      Same

    • @tinfoil7463
      @tinfoil7463 Před 4 lety +331

      thought it was made in 1400 BC

    • @shamimeemamally7466
      @shamimeemamally7466 Před 4 lety +230

      @@tinfoil7463 ?

    • @nj3998
      @nj3998 Před 4 lety +33

      Bach

    • @Onio_
      @Onio_ Před 4 lety +463

      There were instruments similar to it, such as the clavichord and harpsichord. The latter of which was invented possibly during the 1400s-1500s.

  • @scottymeffz5025
    @scottymeffz5025 Před 3 lety +585

    Re-name to: "Hear some guy talk over the sound of the worlds oldest piano"

    • @user-xu9yc6ev3w
      @user-xu9yc6ev3w Před 3 lety +7

      LMFAOO

    • @AllIn1Studio
      @AllIn1Studio Před 3 lety +12

      True!! Sacrilegious! I’m very surprised your observation & comment hasn’t got 10k likes!

    • @chaplainmattsanders4884
      @chaplainmattsanders4884 Před 2 lety

      😂

    • @sinsofthefather
      @sinsofthefather Před 2 lety +1

      yes, seriously

    • @tacticalbacon158
      @tacticalbacon158 Před 2 lety +1

      For reallll it's a minute long video just talk about it play and talk about it again. Idec if you can hear it while he talks just give us a chance to appreciate the sound before you go talking again ya know.

  • @gibn1542
    @gibn1542 Před 4 lety +1939

    Bartolomeo Cristofori: *im gonna to start this whole damn industry*

  • @PianoDave1865
    @PianoDave1865 Před 3 lety +1663

    You have an ABSOLUTELY LOVELY VOICE, but I clicked on the icon so I could hear the instrument!

    • @monkeh3925
      @monkeh3925 Před 3 lety +50

      Exact fuckin ly

    • @444fame_
      @444fame_ Před 3 lety +14

      Lmaooooooo got me in the first part

    • @LadyIno
      @LadyIno Před 3 lety +40

      yeah it's a bit sad he talked over it about 90% of the time

    • @PianoDave1865
      @PianoDave1865 Před 3 lety +18

      @@Rodrigo-me6nq Hm...elsewhere is one word. :-)

    • @plasmoasis
      @plasmoasis Před 3 lety

      you clicked on an icon? what icon?

  • @euguinn9524
    @euguinn9524 Před 4 lety +592

    If anyone’s wondering the piece is Scarlatti sonata in D minor K. 9

    • @PiotrBarcz
      @PiotrBarcz Před 3 lety +7

      Cool!

    • @polkusin
      @polkusin Před 3 lety +8

      Aline Zylberajch has recorded an entire album of Scarlatti sonatas on a Cristofori pianoforte, definitely listen to that if you liked this

    • @feliciavalenciana5266
      @feliciavalenciana5266 Před 3 lety +1

      wow, thanks

    • @k27ism
      @k27ism Před 3 lety +1

      I wasn't but I'm glad you did mention

    • @krunkle5136
      @krunkle5136 Před 3 lety +1

      Ty. Too bad the rushed video didn't bother to inform what that piece was.

  • @carolwalters7069
    @carolwalters7069 Před 6 lety +1490

    Beautiful sound for such an old, old, OLD piano! A sound from the past and it is still delightful to listen to. Lovely!

    • @Souls_p_
      @Souls_p_ Před 5 lety +2

      it's not a piano though

    • @shaokhan2845
      @shaokhan2845 Před 5 lety +1

      darksouls45688 Praise God jnshallah

    • @Souls_p_
      @Souls_p_ Před 5 lety

      huh?

    • @josephcheeseinthepie6915
      @josephcheeseinthepie6915 Před 5 lety +33

      Agreed. It sounds a lot like a Harpsichord. I wonder if those strings were the original strings in that piano. They were probably replaced over time due to age.

    • @joshua7015
      @joshua7015 Před 5 lety

      @@Souls_p_ my son

  • @pschroeter1
    @pschroeter1 Před 3 lety +433

    If I was a pianist, no matter how great I was I would have tears in my eyes and thank the curator after being allowed the rare privileged of playing this particular instrument.

    • @furiousfajitaa2367
      @furiousfajitaa2367 Před 3 lety +4

      It sounds like shit though

    • @pschroeter1
      @pschroeter1 Před 3 lety +7

      @@furiousfajitaa2367 It sounds like it's a harpsichord trying to be a piano.

    • @pschroeter1
      @pschroeter1 Před 3 lety +28

      @Elijah S. That's like being handed Jimi Hendrix's guitar and complaining it's out of tune. I would still be in awe just being allowed to touch it. Did you miss the part where it's the FIRST piano?

    • @pschroeter1
      @pschroeter1 Před 3 lety +21

      @Elijah S. And you are missing my point. It's not how good it sounds that matters, it's that it is the FIRST piano. It's like being allowed to drive the first Model -T car, you don't complain about how slow it goes.

    • @pschroeter1
      @pschroeter1 Před 3 lety +7

      @Elijah S. Exactly. This was a demonstration and amusing fascinating stunt. No one called this a concert. It was fascinating to hear music played on a 300 year old piano and think about all the history behind it.

  • @joermnyc
    @joermnyc Před 3 lety +258

    It even sounds more like a harpsichord than a modern piano.

    • @evanmisejka4062
      @evanmisejka4062 Před 3 lety +40

      That's because of the strings, there is only one string per note (whereas the modern piano has 3) and the strings on this piano are made of brass like a harpsichord, so it is going to have a more thin and bright sound.

    • @Naeromusic
      @Naeromusic Před 3 lety +5

      It's also because the piano is based of from a harischord just like he said in the video

    • @CoolKoon
      @CoolKoon Před 3 lety +9

      @@evanmisejka4062 No and no. The amount of strings per note has absolutely nothing to do with the color of the sound (the additional strings for higher notes are used for added loudness and they're supposed to be tuned to the exact same note) and in some of the shots you can even see that even this early model features multiple strings per note.
      The differing material the strings are made of COULD account for the difference in sound, but it really doesn't either (bass piano strings are made with steel strings with copper wound tightly around them to make them sound deeper too and it doesn't make them sound any different, let alone tinny).
      The REAL reason this piano sounds so tinny lies in the hammer mechanism. The felt tips of the hammers on this model are a LOT thinner than on modern pianos, they're almost ridiculously thin. And the thinner the felt, the harder the hammers are and the harsher sound will they make when they hit the strings.

    • @evanmisejka4062
      @evanmisejka4062 Před 3 lety +6

      @@CoolKoon actually you are partially wrong about the amount of strings affecting sound. Yes it's main purpose is for dynamics, but it actually makes a huge difference in the fullness and color of the sound. The old piano in the video has a very thin sound, and yes the felt used may have an impact too, but the amount of strings per note and thickness of strings are major factors. Next, the material used for the strings does not maybe make a difference, it is probably one of the biggest differences because they are what is vibrating and creating the sound, the hammer just causes the vibration to happen. Brass, the strings used on harpsichords and early pianos has a very thin and bright sound which is why this piano has a more similar sound to the harpsichord. The harpsichord has a plucking mechanism and the piano has a striking mechanism, so it doesn't make sense that the type of felt is the largest factor in why it sounds like a harpsichord more (the mechanisms are very different, and my comment earlier is why it sounds similar to the harpsichord, not why it is different from the modern piano, so the type of felt used between modern piano and older piano does not really count). The hammer system, as described in the video, helps mostly with being able to play soft and loud whenever the player needs to, not a major impact on sound...yet.

    • @Tehinstrumentalist
      @Tehinstrumentalist Před 3 lety +13

      @@CoolKoon harpsichord and piano owner and part time technician here.
      Your assumptions are incorrect - the material and number of strings per note makes a huge difference.
      The iron and Brass used for Harpsichord and historical stringing is far thinner and not thickly wound like modern piano strings - creating a brighter timbre. The softer metals used also create a different sound.
      Doubling strings *does* have an impact on timbre, otherwise they never would have bothered with multiple 8' registers. Multiple strings playing together resonate off eachother when in tune, not only amplifying the sound but creating a broader timbre, especially when combined with the thicker strings.
      Comparing the timbre of this instrument to a modern piano is like comparing the timbre of a 19 century Classical steel strung guitar to a 16th century 4 course gut strung Gittern.
      Edit: this is not even factoring in the difference in pressure (thinner strings and wooden frames necessitate lower pressure) and the position of the hammer contact point on the string.
      This Piano sounds fine enough (better than the dullness of some modern pianos in my eyes, and needs to be experienced in person as intended to judge accurately, as a poor recording job will make even a stradeveri violin sound poor quality.) it will just never be suitable for the piano works we're accustomed to of Beethoven and such.

  • @tsumi.24
    @tsumi.24 Před 3 lety +166

    Ah, yes.. now this is my jam.

    • @theuntouchablemusicman9400
      @theuntouchablemusicman9400 Před 3 lety +9

      How's modern life been with new technology

    • @tsumi.24
      @tsumi.24 Před 3 lety +12

      @@theuntouchablemusicman9400 Pretty interesting. This so called “reply” is very useful.

    • @theuntouchablemusicman9400
      @theuntouchablemusicman9400 Před 3 lety +6

      @@tsumi.24 was making Double Thirds Etude, Op. 25, No. 6 hard?

    • @tsumi.24
      @tsumi.24 Před 3 lety +13

      @@theuntouchablemusicman9400 No. To be honest, I was just pressing random keys at that point. I wouldn’t say it’s hard, but advanced.

    • @SpyFordCool
      @SpyFordCool Před 3 lety +3

      @@theuntouchablemusicman9400 that shit slaps tho ngl 🔥

  • @dreadnautilus253
    @dreadnautilus253 Před 3 lety +1583

    Imagine playing Liszt on that, goodbye piano.

    • @PiotrBarcz
      @PiotrBarcz Před 3 lety +37

      Hahaha, it probably can't even take ragtime! (funny, I come here 2 hours after this comment is posted)

    • @scopilio13
      @scopilio13 Před 3 lety +72

      all it took was beethoven for them to realize that they needed stronger strings

    • @jensboomgaard
      @jensboomgaard Před 3 lety +2

      @@PiotrBarcz Haha true. Joplin would've just obliterated it.

    • @PiotrBarcz
      @PiotrBarcz Před 3 lety +15

      @@jensboomgaard Nah, Joplin wouldn't've wrecked it, I think Tom Brier would

    • @jensboomgaard
      @jensboomgaard Před 3 lety

      @@PiotrBarcz 🤣

  • @valrabellkeys9867
    @valrabellkeys9867 Před 5 lety +79

    Fascinating, knowing such an instrument dates so long ago, and still sounds great!

  • @yrn4680
    @yrn4680 Před 3 lety +24

    You can notice the feeling of late Renaissance in this oldest Piano. It really gives a feeling of how genuine the instrument is.

    • @onemoremisfit
      @onemoremisfit Před 2 lety

      I wonder how many times the exterior has been repainted in 300 years, it looks as drab as a battleship.

    • @donlasagnotelamangia
      @donlasagnotelamangia Před 2 lety

      Just a heads up, Renaissance music stretches to about the late 1500s. This instrument would be great for late Baroque Italian music.

    • @donlasagnotelamangia
      @donlasagnotelamangia Před 2 lety

      Just a heads up, Renaissance music stretches to about the late 1500s. This instrument would be great for late Baroque Italian music.

    • @ignacioclerici5341
      @ignacioclerici5341 Před rokem

      Reinassance ends in 1600, this piano is from 1720, baroque period: 1600-1750

  • @Phicheee
    @Phicheee Před 3 lety +35

    Video title: "Hear the World's Oldest Piano at The Met Museum"
    Video: _Well-dressed man talks through whole video and essentially prevents everyone from really hearing the piano._
    Shame. Amazing that it's survived this long!

    • @Arsamenes1
      @Arsamenes1 Před 3 lety +1

      czcams.com/video/A2WdjyKQ57A/video.html here you go for the whole piece.

    • @FoxyStealth
      @FoxyStealth Před 2 lety

      EXACTLY

  • @aj5401
    @aj5401 Před 3 lety +85

    when the oldest piano in history sounds better than yours-

    • @Doeff8
      @Doeff8 Před 3 lety +4

      Alas... this was more of a clavecimbel/haprsichord and not a piano.......

    • @patriciajin6206
      @patriciajin6206 Před 3 lety +3

      @@Doeff8 big brain has entered the chat

    • @jesusisafly8689
      @jesusisafly8689 Před 3 lety +1

      just say you suck fuck at piano playing

    • @prav2568
      @prav2568 Před 3 lety

      @@jesusisafly8689 lmao

    • @HadesforSanatan
      @HadesforSanatan Před 3 lety +1

      My drunk piano: wot m8?

  • @BeardMan01
    @BeardMan01 Před rokem +3

    I've seen this piano a few times. The alarms are so sensitive that if you breathe too hard at it, they will sound and the curator will demand that you step back. Even walking too hard near it will get you reprimanded.
    All while you're surrounded by Stradivarius violins in glass cases.
    Also, I really like looking at The Met's Grand Pianoforte that sits right next to it. It is the most ornate musical instrument I have ever seen.

  • @Plata-ori-plumbu
    @Plata-ori-plumbu Před 3 lety +6

    Sounds more like a harp than any piano I've ever heard. Such a Beautiful sound!

  • @aayansh3919
    @aayansh3919 Před 3 lety +5

    The sound of this piano sounds so sweet. I can't point out which type...but it sounds so much sweeter and merrier.

    • @AllIn1Studio
      @AllIn1Studio Před 3 lety

      Firstly,it is a bright almost plucked sound. Secondly It’s the music itself. Listen to more Scarlatti and get your cheer on!!

  • @phendan
    @phendan Před 3 lety +8

    I would love to see someone shred a jazz piece on this, just for the surrealness of it.

  • @g.alistar7798
    @g.alistar7798 Před 3 lety +6

    In high school band room, we put thumb tacks on each of the hammers. IT was so fun to play “The Entertainer” on that piano. Boy did we get in trouble....

  • @LITTLE1994
    @LITTLE1994 Před 2 lety +4

    Wow, for a piano way back in 1720, over 300 years old, it STILL sounds good and healthy!!

    • @curiousart42
      @curiousart42 Před 2 lety

      Indeed it does! Check this private piano collection: czcams.com/video/a-ZzsKl3qJE/video.html

  • @PiotrBarcz
    @PiotrBarcz Před 4 lety +6

    That piano is amazing! It's 300 years old, is able to hold in tune, sounds GREAT and it works just fine! I really like the saloon piano sound and the light airy tone.

    • @thefastandthefurious1
      @thefastandthefurious1 Před 4 lety +1

      they don't build em like they used to!

    • @PiotrBarcz
      @PiotrBarcz Před 4 lety

      @@thefastandthefurious1 Well said!

    • @instantinople3796
      @instantinople3796 Před 3 lety +1

      @@thefastandthefurious1 there are some builders that makes replicas of fortepianos.

  • @MelodySnowflakeVA
    @MelodySnowflakeVA Před 3 lety +4

    It sounds beautiful, and has a perfect balance between the sound of a harpsichord and a piano

    • @donlasagnotelamangia
      @donlasagnotelamangia Před 2 lety

      You might be interested in looking up fortepianos (which is a more accurate for for this instrument).

  • @pianolessonsboulder1894
    @pianolessonsboulder1894 Před 2 lety +1

    It really was a privilege to hear the sound of the world's oldest piano. But all too short! Couldn't you have been more generous and let us hear the D Minor Scarlatti sonata played on it from beginning to end?

  • @prayagagarwal5030
    @prayagagarwal5030 Před 3 lety +3

    It's pretty amazing that it still works like a normal piano. I was expecting it to just be a showpiece

  • @koshersalaami
    @koshersalaami Před 3 lety +11

    Let me put the invention into context. Prior to the invention of the pianoforte (the “soft-loud”), there were basically three kinds of keyboard instruments out there: the organ, the harpsichord, and the clavichord. There were some subcategories, like the virginal, but the virginal is basically a differently shaped simplified harpsichord. All three had major limitations. The limitation of the organ and the harpsichord is that there’s no way to make notes louder or softer as you play them from the key itself. The accordion wasn’t invented yet and though you can make the instrument softer and louder in real time you can’t do that a note at a time, meaning if you play more than one key at once they’re all the same loudness. Harpsichords and organs could get louder and softer but it was by activating stops, so the changes in loudness happened suddenly in jumps, not gradually.
    The clavichord uses a much simpler mechanism: there’s a flat piece of brass called a tangent sticking up from the end of the key. It strikes the string and stays on the string to regulate its length. There’s a long strip of felt woven between the strings at the end far from the soundboard which serves two functions: it deadens one side of the string so that striking the string doesn’t trigger two notes and, when you let go of the key, it deadens the whole string because it’s now undivided, functioning as a full damper system (which stops the string from continuing to sound). The big advantage is that the harder you hit the key, the louder the note plays. The instrument can be very expressive - in fact, because the tangent stays on the string, by varying pressure you can actually get vibrato. Its big drawback is that maximum loudness is really soft, to the point where you really can’t play any other instrument with it or sing at a normal level and you absolutely can’t play a concert on it. Early clavichords could be small and light because a few keys could share a string (because tangents hit the same string in different places). That kind of clavichord is called a fretted clavichord. This worked because it would have been dissonant to play adjacent notes at the same time. As standards for dissonance changed and people wanted to play more notes at the same time, they developed the unfretted clavichord, meaning each string was dedicated to a single key.
    There was a version of a European hammered dulcimer in existence at the time, but not only is that not a keyboard, it doesn’t have a damper system, meaning when you hit a string it just keeps ringing. That can become problematic when you change chords. From what I understand, more than one person was trying to figure out how to come up with a keyboard mechanism for a hammered dulcimer. The guy who got there first was Bartolomeo Cristofori. I’d read years ago that he first did it in 1709 but we may have more detailed information now. The mechanism isn’t simple. He had to add a damper system such that something weighted with felt on it settled on the string when you let go of the key, which is how it’s done on a harpsichord. He also had to make sure that the hammer wasn’t pushed onto the string but thrown onto the string so it could bounce off it - if it couldn’t, it would deaden the string by staying on it. A huge advantage of the design was that the harder you hit the key the louder the note played, hence “pianoforte.” The body of the instrument was a lot like a harpsichord body, so it sounded like a cross between a harpsichord and a modern piano, which was fine because it fit the music of the period, both sonically and in terms of loudness because concert halls weren’t big yet. Eventually as music moved out of the homes of the nobility and into concert halls, music got louder, and this triggered technical changes in all sorts of instruments, including bowed strings. And in pianos, which got bigger, louder, deeper.
    People also wanted pianos for their houses and from space (and money) considerations they needed a smaller version. The first ones were what are now called square pianos, really rectangular pianos with the keyboard taking up part of the long side. This is the approach taken by virginals, which were small harpsichords that were also rectangular. The problem with square pianos is they sound really lousy. Particularly as the standards for piano sound got louder and deeper, the square pianos had soundboards that were too small to do what was needed. The answer, in 1826, was to invent a piano action that instead of throwing hammers upward into strings could throw them across so that the strings could be arrayed vertically, taking up less floor space, and we got the upright piano. A tall upright piano can have a pretty big soundboard. Even now, from a musical standpoint you’re better off with a full-sized upright piano than anything shorter because shorter means smaller soundboard. Studio uprights aren’t too bad but spinets, where the height of the piano isn’t all that far above the keyboard, don’t get loud, don’t give you deep bass, don’t give you good sustain - they put the piano as furniture before the piano as musical instrument.
    More than you probably wanted to know.

    • @davidevans3175
      @davidevans3175 Před 3 lety

      If someone commented "can anyone put the invention into context, and don't be shy with wordage" this would be a great comment.

    • @koshersalaami
      @koshersalaami Před 2 lety

      They don’t charge me by the word.

    • @dardo4110
      @dardo4110 Před rokem

      first vertical piano made by Domenico Del Mela 1739

    • @ruthjohnson9442
      @ruthjohnson9442 Před 8 měsíci

      Thank you. This is the info I was looking for when I looked at this video.

  • @natewilson111
    @natewilson111 Před 3 lety +36

    If you think about it, today we're basically calling it "The Soft-n'-Loud" 😆

    • @Jasperi
      @Jasperi Před 3 lety +22

      nah we're just calling it the "soft"

    • @natewilson111
      @natewilson111 Před 3 lety +4

      @@Jasperi Well, **yeah** if you just like nicknames 🙄

    • @RED40HOURS
      @RED40HOURS Před 3 lety +6

      Tickling the ivories on the soft-n'-loud i am!

    • @gwaynebrouwn844
      @gwaynebrouwn844 Před 3 lety +6

      @@natewilson111 pianoforte is a different instrument. They come from the classical era. What we have today are piano's (softs). Its not a nickname, its a different instrument. Just how we call violins from the Baroque era Baroque Violins. They arent the same. I mean then we can basically call piano's Harpsichords.

    • @laurant4282
      @laurant4282 Před 3 lety +1

      @@gwaynebrouwn844 I think he was talking about the "pianoforte" not the "forte piano".

  • @SammeLagom
    @SammeLagom Před 3 lety

    Wow! Thanks for making this video and letting us listen to it!

  • @O-sa-car
    @O-sa-car Před 3 lety +6

    Alternative title: Hear guy talk over the oldest piano in the world

  • @discbreakerchanel8180
    @discbreakerchanel8180 Před 3 lety +8

    Bartolomeo: *Hits harp with a hammer*
    5 Minutes later: do it again

  • @gretchenburbach2013
    @gretchenburbach2013 Před 2 lety

    Glad to see you, Jayson Kerr Dobney! Looking for piano videos for my elementary music classes and stumbled on yours!

  • @zeppelinboys
    @zeppelinboys Před 10 dny

    i'll always regret not taking piano lessons from my grandmother. i was all about the guitar and nobody bothered to tell 10 year old me that MUSIC IS MUSIC! learning piano will help guitar and vice versa. what a missed opportunity. RIP Grandma Bonnie!

  • @nevermorefarm
    @nevermorefarm Před 3 lety +3

    I was able to see the instrument in 2014. Thrilled to death to be able to actually hear it!

  • @thiagogomes3226
    @thiagogomes3226 Před 3 lety +3

    Pianist: Dongsok Shin
    Music: Sonata K.9 - Scarlatti, D.
    It's a shame that we couldn't hear a bit more of the oldest piano in a video about the oldest piano

  • @rd9831
    @rd9831 Před 2 lety +1

    Imagine those were the same sounds produced and listened to 3 centuries ago. You are in a time capsule, cool.

  • @ZNC16
    @ZNC16 Před 3 lety +1

    This is SO cool! I wish it were longer!

  • @minder01
    @minder01 Před 3 lety +13

    It's so interesting because the high notes sound like a harpsichord but the low notes sound like a grand piano.

  • @srcreation1747
    @srcreation1747 Před 5 lety +5

    Old is gold

  • @kyleethekelt
    @kyleethekelt Před 3 lety

    What a lovely sound: a bit like the harpsichord but with the harshness gone. Glad it seems to be in such lovely condition. Thanks for sharing.

  • @SmeagolTheBeagle
    @SmeagolTheBeagle Před 3 lety +1

    Incredible mixture of sound somewhere between piano and harpsichord. Amazing.

  • @toneringer
    @toneringer Před 3 lety +4

    Not many people know that the instrument was hacked in the 1930's and many irreversible changes were made to the action, the case and critical parts of the scale. Thanks dudes!

    • @teslasintern
      @teslasintern Před 3 lety

      Was this in response to setting the international standard scale to "low pitch" (A=440 Hz)?

  • @DanSanChannel
    @DanSanChannel Před 3 lety +7

    i heard more people talking than the actually piano being played...

  • @MichaelMorden
    @MichaelMorden Před 3 lety +8

    Hear the worlds oldest Piano play for a few seconds while a guy tells you about it.

  • @yokaiwatcher8500
    @yokaiwatcher8500 Před 3 lety +7

    Pianos are only from the 1700s !?!? Wow. Just wow. I’m somewhat sad about that

    • @themanformerlyknownascomme777
      @themanformerlyknownascomme777 Před 3 lety +2

      Organs are much older though, dating back to the ancient greeks

    • @erixoliver
      @erixoliver Před 3 lety +2

      before that they already had organs, harpsichords, clavichords, ottavinos, spinets and other instruments that are probably lost in time

  • @LogoFreak93
    @LogoFreak93 Před 5 lety +180

    Really cool! Sounds like a harpsichord. When was the first piano that we would say "sounds like a piano" invented? Was the development rapid or gradual?

    • @nasherkosm97
      @nasherkosm97 Před 5 lety +26

      gradual of course

    • @pinkpesto9040
      @pinkpesto9040 Před 4 lety +9

      industrial revolution , around the romantic era

    • @moriscengic
      @moriscengic Před 4 lety +39

      Robin it was gradually getting from this sound to modern but the first pianos that sounded like todays piano was after 1850 when the metal plate were introduced. It made it possible to raise the pitch and use thicker strings and that is what made the piano sound like it sounds today

    • @LogoFreak93
      @LogoFreak93 Před 4 lety +8

      @@moriscengic Wow! I'm amazed it took that long. I thought 1700's because Mozart's piano sounds similar to the modern piano. No wonder the harpsichord seemed obsolete for awhile because the piano for so long was a modified harpsichord.

    • @moriscengic
      @moriscengic Před 4 lety +24

      @@LogoFreak93 in 1700 the first piano was built by italian Cristofori. They were just as you say modified harpsichord. Mozart was great genius and recognized potential power of this new instrument. But Mozart's Walter instruments were nothing like todays piano. The keys were much narrow and pitch was lower. The thicknes of strings were not even close to piano strongs of today. It sounded bright and touch were extreme light making it hard for us to play. But pianists of the past were fast as lightning and played very delicate. This is not possible today. The action was nothing like today, hammer were placed oposite of today and they were made of rabbit hair or with just leather. So fortepiano was complete diferent beast. Chopin was living his last year of his short life when the first metal plate were introduced and it os not shure if he ever heard that piano.

  • @m0L3ify
    @m0L3ify Před 3 lety +3

    "Do you play the soft?"
    "Yes, yes I do."

  • @CollinSamatas
    @CollinSamatas Před 3 lety +2

    Never knew that a piano was an evolved harpsichord. Sounds lovely.

  • @giusepperesponte8077
    @giusepperesponte8077 Před 3 lety +2

    The oldest piano in the world, made by the man who invented the piano. Now THAT is truly priceless.

  • @3nd04
    @3nd04 Před 3 lety +6

    Anyone else get anxiety when they see someone playing the oldest piano since it’s a relic?

    • @dincerekin
      @dincerekin Před 3 lety +2

      The purpose of a piano is to play sound. I feel worse about it sitting unplayed

    • @3nd04
      @3nd04 Před 3 lety

      @@dincerekin I was thinking “you can only play the oldest piano so much, so save the wear and tear for a later date when it would be really old, imagine hearing a 500 year old piano” I know it’s made of wood and I thought of that point, but by my nature, I like to save things to better conserve them.

    • @hymnodyhands
      @hymnodyhands Před 3 lety +1

      Like all machines meant to be in motion, the system needs to be used in order to be maintained -- leave a modern piano alone for 20-50 years, and bad things happen. Worse would occur to a piano centuries old.

    • @3nd04
      @3nd04 Před 3 lety

      @@hymnodyhands yes, you’re right I was just stating how I felt in the moment

  • @Random212312
    @Random212312 Před 3 lety +6

    still more in tune than school pianos

    • @hsjwjhshhwaj5015
      @hsjwjhshhwaj5015 Před 3 lety +2

      Be happy with what you have, at my school I dont even have. 😑😑

    • @amy0044
      @amy0044 Před 3 lety

      At least you have pianos. The best keyboard we have are two terrible Yamaha digital keyboards

  • @Zero-hk3ct
    @Zero-hk3ct Před 2 lety

    It reminds me of the good ol’ simple days in medieval fantasy games. Such nostalgia.✨💘. Thanks CZcams recomendations.

  • @matthewvanio2234
    @matthewvanio2234 Před 3 lety

    Absolutely fascinating love the video

  • @mirko7767
    @mirko7767 Před 3 lety +8

    How long this piano lasts is proof of how well made Grand pianos are. I would LOVE to get one but im more of a synth guy, even so, still on my bucket list.

  • @jjjsmith2497
    @jjjsmith2497 Před 5 lety +24

    Built around 25 or so years AFTER the great fire of London, and 170 or so years before the great blizzard of 1888.

    • @AllIn1Studio
      @AllIn1Studio Před 3 lety

      Indeed! Not enough credit or credence given to Bartolomeo. What a genius expanding on the harpsichord so that he could emote using dynamics. The thought process alone!

    • @jjjsmith2497
      @jjjsmith2497 Před 3 lety

      @@AllIn1Studio
      Not sure who that is but it is amazing🙂

  • @pentachronic
    @pentachronic Před 3 lety +1

    What a beautiful sounding instrument.

  • @dariodigesu1751
    @dariodigesu1751 Před 3 lety +1

    I find interesting how the sound is so intermediate between that of a piano and that of a cembalo...clearly shows the transition.

  • @duckblock
    @duckblock Před 3 lety +21

    Soooo, are we hearing the actual piano or was that just a background music and a lot of talking😐

  • @rekxzz
    @rekxzz Před 3 lety +3

    Old is gold 🔥

  • @feralbluee
    @feralbluee Před 2 lety

    a beautiful sound -
    thank you, thank you 🌷🌱

  • @eliiii.ii.i
    @eliiii.ii.i Před 2 lety

    It's so beautiful!!

  • @nathanabela9656
    @nathanabela9656 Před 5 lety +21

    I am percussion, but I am falling in love with the Piano! Would love to see that in person!

    • @shinyscarab2546
      @shinyscarab2546 Před 5 lety +8

      Nathan Abela the piano IS goddang percussion

    • @laurenwightman9147
      @laurenwightman9147 Před 4 lety +2

      The piano is actually classified as a chordophone or as most call them “string instruments”.

  • @faithrenee9608
    @faithrenee9608 Před 3 lety +3

    I wish we got more time to actually hear the piano. Yeah what you have to say is interesting sir, but I would like to focus on the title please!

  • @LectronCircuits
    @LectronCircuits Před 3 lety

    Very noteworthy exposé. Cheers!

  • @Guapter
    @Guapter Před 2 lety +1

    Title says: "Hear the World’s Oldest Piano".
    In video: "Man talk all the video interrupting me for hearing piano"

  • @legendhunters5142
    @legendhunters5142 Před 5 lety +5

    Such a lovely instrument

  • @MrJTPianist
    @MrJTPianist Před 3 lety +3

    How am I supposed to freaking when listen when this guy keeps on talking?

  • @deidra9566
    @deidra9566 Před 3 lety

    Sounds lovely

  • @idealcookie.
    @idealcookie. Před 2 lety +1

    I was going to say, it does sound like a harpsichord, but it also looks like a piano. I love it! It's so pretty!!!

  • @LuckyOwI777
    @LuckyOwI777 Před 2 lety +3

    "hear a guy talk for a very short period of time over an unnamed person playing the world's oldest piano which you hear for a few seconds"
    There, fixed your title for ya

  • @AverytheCubanAmerican
    @AverytheCubanAmerican Před 3 lety +18

    *everybody gangsta till the piano plays Champion Cynthia's theme*

  • @feliciavalenciana5266
    @feliciavalenciana5266 Před 2 lety +2

    If anyone wondering what is the title of the piece : Scarlatti : Sonata in D minor

  • @jamesstones8988
    @jamesstones8988 Před 3 lety +2

    So pirates with pianos were extremely unlikely

  • @AltoonaYourPiano
    @AltoonaYourPiano Před 5 lety +7

    It's amazing how harpsichord-like pianos were in the first half of the 18th century. Fun fact: They didn't entirely replace the harpsichord until around 1870, which still was used to accompany some parts in opera and even in orchestras for basso continuendo parts (despite its low volume, it had considerable power to "cut through" the orchestra), afterwards it mostly became relegated to novelty pieces and authentic performances of music written for harpsichord. I love how the early pianos while being able to handle modern piano songs were also perfect for Handel's harpsichord music.

  • @Engineer9736
    @Engineer9736 Před 3 lety +44

    I fast forwarded to a part where they actually just played the piano.. but i hit the end of the video in 5 seconds 😂

  • @MizzKittyBichon
    @MizzKittyBichon Před 9 měsíci

    Sounds like a cross between a harpsichord and a fortepiano. Such a unique sound!

  • @Exderius
    @Exderius Před 3 lety

    Keep up the great work

  • @altmelpitch64
    @altmelpitch64 Před 3 lety +5

    When you touch to play: and then u realize
    *OH SH-*

  • @arsantiqua8741
    @arsantiqua8741 Před 5 lety +8

    Imagine if the thing had three manuals and the range of a modern piano. OwO

  • @lim.6535
    @lim.6535 Před 3 lety

    Man I remember going to this museum as a kid at least 2 times with our class.

  • @jasonroberts6666
    @jasonroberts6666 Před 3 lety

    Beautiful

  • @magnumopus8202
    @magnumopus8202 Před 4 lety +6

    Its sounds like a ukulele 😮 listening to this original piano really gives you the sense it really is a string instrument

  • @geliopouthapesei
    @geliopouthapesei Před 5 lety +14

    Music piece name?? It's so beautiful 😍

  • @PastelPiku
    @PastelPiku Před 3 lety +1

    I can only imagine the incredible care for this piano over several generations, it's a wonder it still sounds so nice

    • @1pcfred
      @1pcfred Před 2 lety

      That piano has been around for about 7 generations. 1720 was a very long time ago.

  • @animemusic8
    @animemusic8 Před 3 lety

    Hello to the pianist! That was beautiful.

  • @barryd6153
    @barryd6153 Před 3 lety +29

    this piano lived through the colonization of the United States, the revolutionary war, war of 1812, the civil war, both world wars, 9/11, and coronavirus

    • @micd4941
      @micd4941 Před 3 lety +3

      Well coronavirus can’t kill a piano

    • @debe08
      @debe08 Před 3 lety +2

      If you're gonna mention covid might as well mention the epidemic that happened 100 years ago too

    • @PianoHypnoshroom
      @PianoHypnoshroom Před 3 lety +2

      Why are you only listing events that involved the US? This piano was in Italy/Europe for most of the time.

    • @georgeopr8044
      @georgeopr8044 Před 3 lety

      @@PianoHypnoshroom i dont think they get taught much history in schools over there, so it would be pretty hard to reference something you dont know about.

  • @captin-crane3324
    @captin-crane3324 Před 4 lety +6

    The older human gets the wiser he becomes, the older an instrument becomes the finer it comes.

  • @tammywalsh5257
    @tammywalsh5257 Před 3 lety

    Wonderful!!

  • @kuurp9203
    @kuurp9203 Před 2 lety

    Imagine this is the oldest surviving piano but the piano you own doesn’t work anymore after using it for a few years, this fits the word “ the original has the best quality of them all”

  • @wtfamIdoinhere
    @wtfamIdoinhere Před 3 lety +3

    I thought the piano was way older than the 1700's. In the anime, thousand years ago, the elves are playing it. We've been tricked, we've been backstabbed and we've been quite, possibly bamboozled.

    • @themanformerlyknownascomme777
      @themanformerlyknownascomme777 Před 3 lety

      while the piano is quite young, the Organ is much older, dating back to the ancient greeks.

    • @salvulcano9061
      @salvulcano9061 Před 3 lety

      To be fair, elves don’t exist, so you shouldn’t apply our history to the anime’s history

  • @SupremeLeaderKimJong-un
    @SupremeLeaderKimJong-un Před 3 lety +56

    Don't let this distract you from the fact that I am the world's best pianist

    • @Eighttigjskxm
      @Eighttigjskxm Před 3 lety +2

      Thanks Kim!!!

    • @didierkoffi7408
      @didierkoffi7408 Před 3 lety +4

      Another perfect day in our North Korean paradise
      Let us give thanks to our supreme leader!

    • @ColonelSanders17
      @ColonelSanders17 Před 3 lety +1

      Someone to rival my chicken empire.

    • @tappy2081
      @tappy2081 Před 3 lety

      the olny guy in NK with a YT account

    • @nurzhanualiev2841
      @nurzhanualiev2841 Před 3 lety

      @@ColonelSanders17 some to rival my lego empire

  • @hmoore3453
    @hmoore3453 Před 3 lety

    My grandma and grandma have a 1899 minfer & company piano and it’s outta tune but still works

  • @Kixuiri
    @Kixuiri Před 3 lety +1

    It's actually so good

  • @phoebehalls5213
    @phoebehalls5213 Před 4 lety +3

    How much? Just curious

  • @jrnelson2106
    @jrnelson2106 Před 3 lety +3

    Oldest piano in existence, dude just jammin on it lol

    • @abrahamlincoln9758
      @abrahamlincoln9758 Před 3 lety +1

      There are still Basses around 400 years old being played in concert.

  • @walnzell9328
    @walnzell9328 Před měsícem

    It really does sound like a harpsicord and a piano at the same time.

  • @thepiterp5
    @thepiterp5 Před 3 lety +14

    of course i got a simply piano ad