Bosendorfer Imperial 282

I take the liberty of responding even though the question was not addressed to me (will Pianoexpert forgive me?).

The sounds added to the Bösendorfer Imperial have (in my very modest opinion) the sole purpose of making the high notes more resonant, because by engaging the sustain pedal, the strings at the lowest end produce harmonic sounds that reinforce the treble area. From a timbral point of view, those notes resemble something very similar to a bison's burp (forgive me, but tell me I'm wrong!) and, even if the purpose of adding those strings seems to have been to facilitate the performance of certain transcriptions of organ pieces (which use the pedalboard and therefore lower notes than those reached by a normal 88-key piano), to this day there remain very few pieces that require those sounds, precisely because they are truly difficult to decipher...

Dear Saverio, when we talk about Bösendorfer, Steinway, Fazioli pianos and a few others, we are talking about super pianos that reach the highest quality, where the greatest concert pianists are able to achieve the subtlest timbral and mechanical nuances.

Waiting for Pianoexpert. . . . . the Imperial model was built following a suggestion from the great Italian pianist and pedagogue Ferruccio Busoni.

The Imperial features 97 keys and is, as I was writing before, intended to allow the faithful performance of certain musical creations by Debussy, Bartók and indeed Busoni.

Modestly (because I know nothing about it) I observe that an extremely qualified company in digital sampling like East West decided to propose, in the QL Pianos package, two different samplings for the Imperial and for the 88 keys. This leads one to assume that resonance, in fact, is what makes the difference.

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I agree with the thesis regarding the enrichment of the instrument's general resonance. I have performed a concert on such a piano in the past, but I did not perceive significant advantages in the treble. I would say that instead, the resonance segments of the duplex scale and the front resonator segments of the treble actually contribute (sometimes too much, requiring the latter to be dampened) to enriching those harmonics that would otherwise be almost imperceptible to the listener.

THANK YOU PAOLO!!

saverio