Moonlight sonata Played on a 1810 PianoForte ( Sonata No.14 in C-sharp Minor, Op. 27)

[rodrigohemp91]

Linda execução, paraben jovem!!!!

[MrAndriy92]

Nice!!!!!! Sounds more like a harpsi-cord.

[Renatodonadio]

I think this piano sounds like it should (maybe it requires some tuning on some keys) keep in mind that the "pianoforte" was the first attempt to build an instrument capable of playing soft and sharp tones louder than those claviers that were built before

[Spudboy41]

good sound for a clavicord..

[DS42296]

wtf aren's those called Clavichords?

[untl01]

@DS42296 a clavichord uses a different kind of attack. There, instead of hammers you have sort of screw driver tips, which tap the string remaining in contact while it vibrates.

[tartandaddy]

Beathovan's elastic band concerto in b twang major

[daanklm]

sounds more like a banjo ;p

[KidKolobteeX]

Bethhoven himself played on this piano once lol

[DasKindespiel]

Suena muy bien, suena más, mucho más a lo que escuchó y pensó Beethoven

[kyrvhy]

To the work played on a piano of the Era gives us a perspective of how far the instrument has been developed and how sad it is that it is no so devalued in our culture that acoustic instruments are being eclipsed by digitals. One thing is good about the digitals - no tuning but hey, there goes the craft of the technician.

[eutenhodoisfilhos]

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[itscodyw]

Amazing!! its 201 years old!!! who cars if it sound like tin, This should be in a musame!

[RosesNightengales]

D: That's the song that Lestat plays!!!! In Interview With The Vampire!

[masterbate23]

this piano does not have a metal harp?

[WarriorOfWriters]

@masterbate23 it's a period piano, pre-Steinway

[rustydog1236]

"Si deve suonare tutto questo pezzo delicatissimamente e senza sordino".

[Renatodonadio]

@rustydog1236 You should play the piece very gently and without muffler

[rustydog1236]

@Renatodonadio Thank you, nice translation. I think 'muffler' might be better translated as 'damper' in English.

[haydnesque]

i would like to hear how it sounds like if you pressed the pedal (sordino) all the way throughout the piece as what had beethoven instructed.

[Renatodonadio]

@haydnesque senza=wiuthout

[Renatodonadio]

without ;-D

[RWBHere]

On the 'Metropolitan Museum Of Art' website, go to 'The Heilbrunn Timeline Of Art History' and search for 'Cristofori'. I cannot give you the exact address here, because the system doesn't let me.

[RWBHere]

I wonder when Sonata No.14 was first played on this piano? Maybe when Beethoven was still alive. This recording gives us an insight into how people would have heard these pieces 200 years ago - certainly not in the way in which we usually hear them; the pianoforte wasn't around at that time.

Thank-you, very much for posting this one. Looking forward to the other two movements, too - if you've recorded them.

[susumu07]

@RWBHere

Actually pianoforte was around in Beethoven's time, it was very much his instrument. He actually played more advanced versions than Mozart did. However modern pianos with their huge iron plates and factory-made pinblocks and all their thousands of pounds of tension were not around back then. So the old pianos of those days had much softer sound.

Even in the Romantic Period of Chopin and Schumann, the pianos had a softer and more delicate sound than the ones today.

[RWBHere]

@susumu07 Thank-you for that response; I've been misinformed by the BBC, who clearly stated that the pianoforte wasn't around in Beethoven's time. Wrong! Your reply caused me to search for the history of the instrument.

Bartolomeo Cristofori (1655–1731) is reported to be the first person to develop the pianoforte as we know it. Three of his pianofortes still exist. The Met Museum of Art has an interesting item about this, in their Heilbrunn Timeline Of Art History.

[beaverteeth92]

It sounds like a cross between a harpsichord and a piano.

[ShinyAndTouchable]

@beaverteeth92 Hence the name pianoforte. The instrument introduced after the harpsichord and began the revolution to the modern piano. Pianofortes were the first stringed keyboarded instrument where you could control the volume depending on how hard the keys were played.

[mariovrpereira]

@ShinyAndTouchable Clavichord was the first. :)

[ShinyAndTouchable]

@mariovrpereira My bad. But the Clavichord's pitch was from frets and It was not struck with hammers. I'd say the reason the harpsichord was preferred over the clavichord, although there was the ability to make noise, the harpsichord was more pleasant sounding.

[WarriorOfWriters]

@ShinyAndTouchable there were also chords that were impossible on the clavichord

[ShinyAndTouchable]

@WarriorOfWriters Yes because of shared strings between frets. I really want a harpsichord. I'm contemplating building one of my own this spring.

[WarriorOfWriters]

@ShinyAndTouchable I wanted to build one for my birthday, but even the kits are expensive.

[ShinyAndTouchable]

@WarriorOfWriters Psh, with time, research, and dedication I don't need a kit.

[OldHowlingHound]

WOW is what comes to mind. This grand instrument sounds almost (sound here anyway) like a cross of a fine banjo and a piano. I would love to see some good close-ups of the workings inside it.