I have just joined this interesting forum. I had the opportunity to appreciate Paolo Ferrarelli's excellent video course "Inside the Piano" and am particularly interested in content that allows me to improve the sound of my piano. In fact, timbre is of utmost importance to me.
I am an amateur who started studying the piano late, but finally, after about 20 years of fragmentary and irregular self-taught studies, as of this year I have managed to organize myself to take serious lessons. During this period, I am studying 2 pieces by Debussy and 2 by Chopin, plus various exercises.
Since we are close to Christmas, I wish all pianists a Merry Christmas and a better year 2012.
As an acoustic piano, I have a Brodmann 128 PE upright (for economic and space reasons), then I have three weighted keyboards: a Casio PX 110 that I connected to the PC via an EMU 1616m card, a Yamaha P-70, and an old Korg from the '90s.
Ah! I forgot the organ (two manuals + a pedalboard) that I put in the icon and which I built about 30 years ago (with electronics, I've always managed better than with playing).
P.S. Naturally, I prefer playing on the acoustic piano. I think I will soon ask for advice on setup and particularly on the tuning of the piano.
yes, both the electronic part (naturally those projects are outdated today) and the furniture; previously I had also built 2 guitars (a jazz one and a 12-string electric), but my specialty was high-level HI-FI systems: amplifiers and loudspeakers.
It was all done as a hobby and for the love of Music (well, later on my knowledge of electronics also helped provide me with food/a living).
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Felicia
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Reply 6 by Felicia
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Welcome Arturo and congratulations on your skill, and Merry Christmas to you too. I am also a pianist who is starting to take the first steps, and I am also curious to know something about intonation, because besides tuning, the piano must also be in tune, right? I have a new piano purchased a year ago, which I have already had tuned twice, but there are some notes that sound bright, especially the high ones, while the low ones, especially those of the middle octave, have a muffled sound. The tuner came to my house, tuned the piano in two hours, and for the muffled notes he told me that since the piano is new, it must settle. Is that true?
P.S. The piano at the music school where I study, although it is an inexpensive piano compared to mine, has a bright and homogeneous sound from the first to the last key of the keyboard. I asked this question to my teacher but he did not know how to answer me. What is intonation?
Hi Felicia, in the video tutorials section under "Journey Inside the Piano" there is a lesson that explains what tuning is. I recommend you watch it. As for well wishes, I'll wait until Christmas Eve... according to tradition.
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Felicia
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Reply 8 by Felicia
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TheSimon wrote:
Hi Felicia, in the video tutorials section under "Journey Inside the Piano" there is a lesson that explains what tuning is. I recommend you watch it. As for the wishes, I'll wait for Christmas Eve... By tradition.
Thank you Simone, you are very kind. As soon as I have some time, I will watch the video you recommended with the certainty that it will help me understand things that I currently do not know. The more I get to know your forum, the more I appreciate it, because who else could we ignorant people in the matter ask for information when, like me, some doubts have arisen about a tuning that was perhaps performed too hastily? It's possible that I am wrong, but that is the impression I had. That is, I wonder, if a new piano needs to settle, when will it start sounding good then? My husband tells me I am too picky, but is it really like that?
Simone, I will watch the video, and as for the wishes, that's fine, let's wait for Christmas Eve.
