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Oh, thats a long snake lamp on the piano!😮

Robert! I love watching your videos. You are so enthusiastic and knowledgeable. Keep up the good work!

Thank you for cover this topic. My question was what scales and arpeggios and how much should I practice.

comparing J S Bach with anyone (even Mozart) is what we Greeks call (and I hope you understand) hubris. It is the worst a human can do against gods. Bach is not "a composer". If you want to talk about homophony and polyphony ok be my guest.Unless you don't understand Bach. In this case I forgive you

Mozart's music is nice but I think it has too many notes.

So thats what it looks like... i only know the button 😂

So two complimentary melodies playing at the same time, one acting as the harmony for the other. Would that be an adequate explanation?

Bravo, especially on the Liszt.

Please play Liszt's Benediction one day for us viewers out there.

Hey Robert, nice video. I think the new hairstyle looks good on you.

I played enough Baldwins grands that my answer was, if number 1 isn't the grand, then there's something seriously wrong with it. Baldwin grands are known for their impressive lower register, and that came through on the recording.

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Oh my. I got the Steinway... It sounded like a1920. Still amazed at the hialun. What I missed on the Steinway was the ability for the softs to speak and sing. The Chinese had much more expressive depth. I own a Boston GP193 that amazes, spoils and feels like pianistic sex every time I play it! Never ever found a piano that comes close. One of my technical drills is to play legerrio through a piece as soft as I can play at tempo. It has improved my playing and my control.

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What a piano! The A3 is the perfect piano for a musician's home. Thanks for the great music.

Some call anything from 6’ a “professional” grand, because there is a feeling of no compromise in the bass sound all the way to the lowest note. So this would have meant that Steinway had two different models in that class. Still, others will say that a 48” vertical is the ideal size vertical, better than a 52” vertical, both of which have shorter strings than a 6’ grand. The shorter strings can feel more controlled, more restrained, more intimate, more an extension of the pianist. The truth is that a learning pianist should have some experience with all of these size ranges, but a learned pianist can make their statement on any of these. Pianos were developed in an era before amplification and size was mainly an issue of trying to get a little more projection if space was available.

Speaking of Steinway pianos from that era and the very early page the 20th century, I noticed the label on their fallboards included the cities of New York and Hamburg, which makes sense…. But, why did Steinway include London on the label too?

Insightful! Wonder if there’s ever a moment I play when I’m alone. When playing for myself, it is always with a sort of practicing state of mind. Also when I don’t stop and do the works. Maybe when improvising, I get in a playing state of mind, otherwise only when recording myself. And now you say it, again it is practice! Interesting topic.

Fazioli now have a 6’6 grand piano model “F198”.

Holy moly that is an incredible piano! Model B sound at a fraction of the cost- no wonder it’s gone now. Great sustain- glad there’s a new soundboard.

I grew up thinking Mozart wrote for Loony Tunes. (EDIT: which is probably why I love Mozart :)

is it really the same piano if the soundboard is new?

Nicely done. To a beginner, it feels literally like the world is on one's shoulders when there is a crowd. And people don't realize how many repetitions it sometimes takes to play a piece all the way through with absolutely no mistakes. 😊

What a warm voice, absolutely gorgeous

A wonderful piano and great playing 🎹 Robert..🎉🎉

Marvelous sound and marvelous playing, thank you Maestro!

Easy. 1) The hardest piece by Bach (probably the Goldberg Variations) is harder than what Mozart ever wrote (probably Kv 450). In most cases, Bach's music is more challenging to play than Mozart's. 2) The two composers wrote in different times and styles. 3) They wrote for different keyboard instruments. 4) Young pianists should play a ton of Bach - more than Mozart. 5) As far as interpretation, Mozart is harder to play than Bach. 6) Both wore wigs and loved a late night nightcap.

i always liked bach, loved others and hated mozart.. i cant stand mozart

IMHO, playing is part of practicing. Playing is a screening evaluation allowing you to pick up where mistake happens. Then you slow down to areas of trouble and repeat until you master them.

Well the fact that Bach preferred a piano like instrument and that he was such a great composer that he felt the Dynamics in his music I'm sure Bach would have loved to have had a Steinway I play Bach and Mozart pretty much the same although with Mozart you can pull more dynamics that means loud and soft but really the difference when I play Bach I play Bach with a little less Dynamics loud and soft but I still put a little bit of dynamics in Bachs keyboard music you can add dynamics of course as long as you don't over do it so to make the music a little less mechanical sounding one thing that's similar in my playing with Bach and Mozart I play both with a very smooth legato is one note slide smoothly into the next so there are some differences between playing Mozart I'm Bach but I think this was a really great video that explains about the development of the keyboard instruments and the composer's relationship with them but I feel in my heart I would never want to play Bachs original instruments I strongly feel that if the piano have been invented during his life he would have used it

Excellent insight! Practicing is different than playing/performing! BTW! I finally figured out an easy method to transpose a piece to a different key! This is something i searched channels far and wide to figure out but couldn't. Then, i happened to be searching through the boxes worth of sheet music i inherited from 4 different retiring organists and i found a humble little book entitled"the church pianist" (1964) It has a healthy dose of music theory included. Anyway, lets say you want to take a hymn written in g major and play it in e major. (Or e-flat major). All you do is write on a piece of paper... Number the keys of the original hymn, starting with its root note: g-1, a-2, b-3, c-4, d-5, e-6, f-7, and g-8(or 1).... Then take your new desired key and do the same except now you start woth: e-1, f-2, g-3, a - 4 and so on.... Bingo! Then you go through the score and rewrite the notes in their new positions with where they are supposed to be on the staff lines.! Viola! Transposing made simple via a book written in 1964! (Visual aid might be needed to understand the above explanation)

When playing for friends or family and you make a mistake don’t stop and AND DON’T SAY SORRY! Most likely they didn’t hear the mistake and depending on the length of piece, if they did noticed the mistake, your audience with have forgotten by the time you reach the end. Even if you kept play but said “sorry” they will remember that mistake.

So playing can be practicing, too! Great video!

Playing is practicing performing. But playing is not practicing playing.

Good explanation of the diff. between playing and pacticing. But honestly, at times the distinction melts away for me as the mind gets tricked into thinking that any note playing is practicing!

Great insight, from defining practice to outlining how playing creates a unique practice opportunity--thank you for sharing!

Over 20 years as a part-time organist/choirmaster there was a constant back and forth between practice and performance. With never enough time to practice even if it were a full time position, one needed to either sight read really well a large repertoire (what I did) and/or be able to improvise competently, which I was never trained nor able to do. Now retired I play entirely for my own amusement and enjoyment. I am my own audience if not recording, so a mix of practice/performing every time I sit to play.

Thanks Robert 🎉

Beautiful piano, I prefer my Steinway better.

i have a digital piano....purchased five VSL plugin concert grand pianoa...but when i purchased 1895 Bluethner grand its been my primary practiced piano

Call me a philistine but something about that demo @ 5:00 reminds me strongly of something Freddie Mercury once wrote or played. :-(

Off topic question if you don’t mind. Maybe a question to spur another future video. I’m working on Beethoven’s Pathetique sonata first movement. In the first measure, the last chord and bass note have a flag, indicating these are 8th notes. However, every interpretation I’ve seen has the pianist holding down the notes for two full beats. This does not seem to jive with the notation. I understand that since the notation calls for peddling, perhaps sonically it’s indistinguishable, but is it correct technically, or should the pianist lift the hands after an eighth beat? Also, if it’s indistinguishable sonically, why did Beethoven write it that way, rather than a simple half note? Just curious, and I didn’t know where else to ask it. ChatGPT says it is the preference of the pianist how to play it. Your thoughts?

I always thought the melodic minor sounded like the major scale and now that you have explained it, playing it is so much easier.

Another intriguing video.

music title please

Thank you for answering my question!!!!

Trombone Bb? Not really. Trombone is sometimes called Bb Trombone because its fundamental note is a Bb. However, a Bb in trombone music sounds a Bb. So, it is actually a C instrument like the flute and the oboe and others.

Brilliant and fun! Thank you 🙏

Yee gad!! A french horn?? Such a pity you didn’t learn the most beautiful sounding instrument there is. That being, the Euphonium. You can play an inspiring march or a moving, tear jerking love song on a Euphonium. A French Horn is really nothing more than a rolled up fanfare horn with valves that aspire to be a Euphonium. Can you imagine playing Horrible the love song from the Desert Song on a French Horn. 😱🤢🥴

Actually, E is the most common vowel and S is the most common consonant.