@DagMusic96 Any keyboard instrument action must only play once when the player depresses the key. Here, when the hammer rebounds from the string, it is firmly caught by the backcheck.
What an ingenious design. It's a wonder this brilliantly simple design didn't stay around for longer. I suppose it lacks great power but i'd argue many modern pianos are too loud anyway for amateur music making.
Actually, by the late eighteenth-century the piano had two distinct streams, one of which survived to the present day. The latest piano I have seen with the Viennese action was 1925. The action which evolved from the English system can play louder.
How does the pick to play only once?
DagMusic96 5 days ago
@DagMusic96 Any keyboard instrument action must only play once when the player depresses the key. Here, when the hammer rebounds from the string, it is firmly caught by the backcheck.
hpschdnu 5 days ago
This action is way simpler than Cristofori's, I think
tunglour 2 years ago
Ha, who needs double escapement with such a shallow depression?
tunglour 2 years ago
beautiful!
sosna00 2 years ago
Neat. Would be interesting to hear a range of dynamic, all the way down to nothing (hammer escapes without hitting string).
How about a trill!
qwaqwa1960 3 years ago
@qwaqwa1960 Seconded! Please make such a video, it would be very instructional in my humble opinion.
eFFeeMMe 1 year ago
Cool! Thanks.
mason104 4 years ago
What an ingenious design. It's a wonder this brilliantly simple design didn't stay around for longer. I suppose it lacks great power but i'd argue many modern pianos are too loud anyway for amateur music making.
ZachariasHildebrandt 4 years ago
Actually, by the late eighteenth-century the piano had two distinct streams, one of which survived to the present day. The latest piano I have seen with the Viennese action was 1925. The action which evolved from the English system can play louder.
hpschdnu 4 years ago