Bartolomeo Cristofori =)

the first piano concept was created by Bartolomeo Cristofori. It is nothing close to what the modern piano is today. All the upgrades that modern piano possesses (including all the pedaling, double repetition, etc) were created by German technicians and engineers.

It's used for pieces like Rachmoninoff's prelude in C# minor, especially at the end, when low octives are held for a measure or two, but both hands must be used to continue playing chords in the treble clef. You can also use the sustaining pedal with it as well, to sustain and unsustain those treble clef chords, while those low octives continue to sound. Upright pianos have them too but they don't work as well. It sustains all keys from about middle C down. If there are any uprights that work like the grand pianos, I'm unaware of them.

Warhorse26 In that case, you're playing wrong mate.

lol same

Same, I always knew what the right one did and was always confused by the middle and left one

SAME

Awesome! Glad to hear these videos were useful

Hey Jared what if we press a three levers at once

Awesome! Glad that my video helped

Thanks! Yeah if I had better sound recording equipment I probably would have done that. Thanks for your comment

Haha Gentlemen’s Gazette, I hum that sax intro randomly a lot.

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@@JaredOwen 911

Why are you here, lol

A lot

And to think that the design is over 300 years old. We tend to think of people from three CENTURIES ago as being not so smart, but the design of the piano shows otherwise!

@@demef758 only truly illiterate people think that people were less smart back in the day.

@@rafon. Don't be a dickhead. It could've been worded better but I took the comment to most logically mean "not so smart" from a knowledge standpoint, not actual intelligence. The most elite surgeons of the same time period had a 50% mortality rate because they didn't wash their hands. There's a reason why the piano wasn't invented by the Egyptians.

​@@Absurdword I think that Rafon is right. If you had mathematical formation, for example, you would know that Newton invented classical physics at that time and that you are unable to just understand what differential calculus is. You would also know that greeks 2500 years ago, had mathematical knowledge that you hardly understood at high school and that it made you suffer all of those years. And maybe you would even know that Romans 2000 years ago knew how to build 4 and more levels buildings that you just dream of doing because you can´t discover concrete by yourself and even if you buy the modern concrete, you cannot build it either. And you would know that astronomers 6000 years ago discovered the workings of the skies and you barely can name 3 of the 88 constellations that they named and PREDICTED how would they move and when the next eclipse would happen. And if you weren´t such an ignorant, maybe you would even know what this is: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism

it's not one guy......it was many people with many variations over a significant amount of time.

I mean the manifracturers

@@cdllc1956 my bad

@@donaldthegreat5809 sorry my sentence Was Bad 😂

AND YOU WHO MADE THE GREATEST MUSIC WITH IT

Thank you for your kind words - I'm glad to hear my videos are useful!

It works basically the same except that the hammers and strings are positioned vertically, hence the name upright. It is merely an adaptation of the musical device from a horizontal plane to a vertical one.

Vincent Dubyna also on an upright, the “soft” pedal separates the strings from the hammer with either felt or it drops the keys down so they can’t travel as far in order to have a quieter sound.

Actually the soft pedal on the upright brings the hammers closer to the strings to mimmic the una chorda (soft) pedal effect on the grand piano, ironically actually giving it a softer tone on the upright, but not exactly on the grand piano (which is probably why it has that name). The middle pedal on the upright (if it has one) is what brings a felt down meant for practicing.

The middle pedal on uprights also sustains only the bottom half of the notes

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@pyropulse It is felt, and the shape makes it slide over too.

Actually, I've realized what happens. The way the bar works, it not only prevents the already raised dampers from falling down again, it also raises the pressed dampers up slightly, so that they are above the usual height. So when other dampers are raised, they don't go as high as the ones raised by the middle pedal, but they still go up to normal height.

So, the diagram isn't accurate; the sostenuto bar should be pushing the dampers up, not stopping them.

@@bennywang5752 oh, thanks for the clarification! That was the only thing missing in the video and the one I came for:)

The dampers just don't go up as far, we saw how much space they had so with the rod in the way they still have clearance just they don't go as high.

So do I, I'm a musician. I've been playing the piano since back in middle school but that's not all, I also play the flute and I played the tenor saxophone since back in 9th grade.

Wow

Wow I think you are right! I hate it when I make big mistakes like that... BTW - happy 16 B-Day!

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I didn't even notice

@@JaredOwen The "soft pedal" or the "una corda" pedal shifts the hammers so that they only hit one string. Una corda actually stands for "one string" Edit: that its what it has done in all of the grand pianos i've played anyway

Gramar Nazzi And the reason it’s called “una corda” even though it strikes TWO strings, not one, is because when the una corda pedal was invented pianos didn’t have three strings per note but two, so when the una corda pedal was pressed it only struck one! :-)

Probably so it would stand out when all the other pieces were put back.

@@waluigisbean3148 maybe

c key, maybe?

@@adus2821 maybe

If you slow the video down you can tell that it's a c key

After 60 years lol that's funny.

It is not inferior to a grand piano its just a little different

No it’s have just one difference is that you can play even when the key is not raised completely but the up right it can’t

@@microsoftice6498 it is very much inferior in pure technical terms. for example, the action return (how fast the keys come back up after you press them) will _never_ be as fast as a similar quality grand, due to gravity. there are numerous other problems too, but I'm typing on a phone and can't comfortably leave a paragraph. edit: spelling

@@shadowfire04 Watch this kzfaq.info/get/bejne/n9yllt1_r7bZkqM.html A Japanese guy has over come this problem.

the grand piano is of course better. It looks better, and it produces better quality of sound, since the lid is wide open

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(I started learning the piano in February, but my teacher has shown me the left and right pedals. The middle over was a mystery, it I just forgot the explanations. Having seen the inside, all is clear, and I don't think I'll forget.)

Thank you!

Thanks Merrill!

Thanks Sandee

Thanks James

@@JaredOwen You are welcome. Please keep these coming, you are so great at this!

Thank you for your kind words Nick!

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