Thanks a lot for your attention to catching the details, as always 😊

Thank you ☺️

Thanks for watching! 🙂

Thank you! I am working on controlling the tempo. I found that those two preludes are not necessarily needed to be played too fast. And interestingly Chopin indicated the specific tempo (66 per quarter note) for the etude, which is quite fast. So I’m trying to play the etude not too slow.

Thank you 😀

Sure!! It depends, but mostly I think of Chopin, and what he would have imagined or felt composing the pieces. I also gain inspirations and vivid images from various sources when I fall in love with certain pieces by him. For example, these Nocturnes Op55, I think of Chopin traveling in Edinburgh. I think of Chopin singing with the piano and also with a tenor and a soprano that would be singing in his imagination. And I also think of my memories from my past trip to Edinburgh. I think of the scenery I saw in Edinburgh.

I don’t think you are far from art/music at all..! Because you already expressed how you feel about the melody and related to your cherished memory. That's the essence of music!

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Thank you 😊

🙂 yes, to Edinburgh 🌘🎶🎹🏰

네ㅠ 너무 좋아서 한눈에 반하고 데려왔습니다… 제 외장마이크가 비루해서 피아노 소리의 깊이를 잘 못잡아준것도 고려하시면.. 실제 소리는 훨씬 좋다고 말씀드리고싶어요. 한 1-2미터 떨어진곳에 마이크를 두고 녹음해서 베이스가 아쉽게 됐어요.

@@mchoi-amateur-pianist 계신곳이 미국인가 보네요. 한국에선 구하긴 힘든 모델인데 프레임 광택을 보니 중고로 구입하신것 같은데 잘 고르신것 같네요. 축하드려요

@joonjeong4878 감사합니다 ㅎㅎ 제 피아노는 새거이구요 제가 첫 오너입니다 ㅎㅎ 딜러샵에서 2년정도 갖고있던 피아노라고 했고 디스플레이 돼있던거이기도 하고 해서 완전 아무도 건드리지 않은 새것까진 아니지만요. ㅎㅎ 애초에 제작 기간이나 소리를 길들이는 작업도 1년여에 걸친 뒤에 스토어에 나오는 과정도 있다고 하고요!

@@mchoi-amateur-pianist 와우. 엄청 비쌀텐데 기분 좋으시겠네요. 박스제품 보다는 floor model이 여러모로 더 좋죠.

Thank you :) My room is small/narrow. about 10' by 20'. There was only single option where to place this piano -- by the corner on the 10' wall side. Yes, this was a very raw take with minimal acoustic treatment I'm trying first. And the mic is placed at about 4 feet away. So it's only taking the room ambience but not catching a bit more direct sound from the piano. I increased the overall volume afterwards I think, but increasing louder than this starts creating distorted (clipped) sounds at peaks. In general I think classical music recordings are low in volume due to the wide dynamic range.

Maybe I understood in a different way 🙃 I wonder if you meant the volume of the piano in my room, not the volume of the recording? If it's the former, so far I don't have any issue. I find that keeping the lid closed generates just the right level of volume for daily playing. Opening the lid certainly increases the volume but I find it's okay. I'll experiment with acoustic panels more over time.

@@mchoi-amateur-pianist Yes, I meant more the volume of the piano in your room! I think the recording sounds lovely. I ask because I'll be bringing a large grand piano into a ~12' x 12' room, and I'm a bit worried about the volume. Seeing your large piano in a similarly cozy space gave me hope that the sound might be manageable!

@@jamesdolezal8936 my idea right now is to attach diffusion panels or mix of diffusion and absorption panels on the walls that the piano sound would originate from. And absorption panels on the walls that would be the audience side. This way you would efficiently diffuse the piano sound and then prevent reflection from the walls that the piano lid opens towards, so the sound doesn’t come back to the piano.

@@mchoi-amateur-pianist Makes sense! I'll keep an eye out for future recordings, I'd be curious to hear how it changes the sound.

Thank you for sharing your idea. Yea I was thinking the same. And even though I connect my iPhone with the mic, the video recording apps seem not having an option to make the audio to be WAV. I guess I always have to record audio separately and merge afterwards… I got this microphone due to the convenience that I can just plug in and hit record, and no additional work needed 🥲

​@@mchoi-amateur-pianist You'll need to use another video format, I think mp4 doesn't support wav and flac. Also congrats on the 300 subs milestone!

@@wa1t5 btw I think no matter what I do to keep the WAV quality audio, YT just downgrades the quality, compressing all the time. That what I don’t like about YT.

@@mchoi-amateur-pianist Yep, youtube will compress the audio to either opus or mp3 (opus being a good option but not better than flac or wav), you could upload the audio to another platform, I don't know any platform that has 0 costs though

@@wa1t5 I'm actually testing CD Baby ;)

I got this piece when I was about ten years old. I stopped learning piano when I was about 12 to pursue my dream to be an astrophysicist. When I picked up this piece again, I was about 25. This recording is a memory of that time. Time of my piano hasn’t ticked during that long hibernation. But when I resumed, I was able to recover to play this piece relatively quick.

Thank you so much 😀 I also appreciate your sensitive ears catching the nuances I worked and wished to convey… 😊🙏🏻

🙌🏻🙌🏻 Happy to have you join to be a pianist!!! The world needs more pianists. Practice is the No 1 thing that won’t betray :) let’s keep up with practicing to reach our goals 👍🏻💪🏻

@@mchoi-amateur-pianist That's very encouraging, thank you! :)

Thank you !! 😊 really appreciate your encouraging words!

😃 thank you!!! I am very happy with this piano. Certainly I played many pieces on it before I made the purchase decision. Tested numerous recordings after I brought it with me 😄. I think I should put my mic closer between the lid and the rim of the piano. In th e recording, I put the mic about 4 feet away. Mine is a compact condenser mic so if placed a bit further it doesn’t catch the bass too well. I took this piano after I tried playing on it several times at the piano dealership. Visited three times. I did side-by-side comparisons at the store during my visits. There was also a rebuilt steinway and more expensive Bechsteins. But this specific piano kept me astounded and hypnotized. It responded right away. Usually I need time to get to know a piano that I first meet. This one I didn’t need that. While it’s considered a baby grand, it’s on the larger side in that category. The bass sounds vigorous, the middle registers are warm, and the treble is crystal clear. Different tones across the three sections. I searched online about Chopin’s Pleyel piano while I was making the decision during the week, and I found similar statements about his piano from him and others. And I found that this will be the piano I have to fall in love with.

@@mchoi-amateur-pianist What an amazing story of how this acquisition came to fruition! Thank you for sharing. And yes of course it makes sense that you were courting it at the dealership for some time (it's worth a fully loaded luxury vehicle) and pianos are very personal. I meant if that's the first piece you played on it at home after it acclimated. The three distinct register ranges timbres you describe sounds like an ideal situation to have because it would underscore expressions of different feelings and make different voices stand out better. Mic'ing is an art in itself, I know because I streamed and recorded a dozen shows in the past year. Only one out of a dozen had everything set correctly where there is no clipping distortion at high volumes, entire register range is properly picked up, and mixing levels with other instruments are all balanced. It's a shame they don't put care into the audio set up. One again, great acquisition and congrats again! Looking forward to future uploads played on it.

@LogioTek :D yea I played various things and the first thorough recording was the Nocturne 55-2, although not posting it publicly. Yes I was ok with my current mic for a while, but with this powerful piano my dissatisfaction might grow over time… 😅 I will try several times more and see if it can be improved by putting the mic right between the rim and the lid, or just inside the piano 1-2feet above the strings below the lid.

@@mchoi-amateur-pianist That piano really deserves a pair of Myburgh M1 mics. 😅

@@LogioTek omg 7k?? Per unit??

Thank you 🙌

감사합니다 😊

Thank you! 😊

This is the first time that I'm so impressed with the Bechstein piano. I think I like this piano more than Yamaha and Steinway, at the moment at least.

@@mchoi-amateur-pianist All of them sound quite nice with Chopin to be honest.

@@LogioTek I’m currently biased 😂

@@mchoi-amateur-pianist I see that. 😅

Glad to know that those parts took your attention :) Yes I tried to put the nuances that you exactly pointed out... Thank you so much for noticing them!!!

Hi o/ Integrity is achieved when both are played together, I feel..! Hmmm naa.. you don't need to check the other one on Yamaha S400B. I uploaded it cause it was a live performance, but honestly I'm thinking to pull that down... T-T

@@mchoi-amateur-pianist I heard it :) 8th like, it's great of course, but needs several listens for me to pick up the minute differences

@@mchoi-amateur-pianist No need to pull the live performance video, each version of your playing has something different to appreciate

@@wa1t5 Thank you for saying that. It is an encouraging comment...!

I pulled the video down for a bit, and reopened to public. Thank you Bonnie for the encouraging comment.

Hi, I'm using the KZfaq built-in translator, so I hope I got the point of your question right, and I hope you can find my answer helpful. The sound of N1X is digital, bottom line. But so far the sound sampling technology that Yamaha has put into this piano seems the latest, and I'm 95% content with it. I also haven't needed to deal with out-of-tune strings ever over the past couple of years or so, since I got this piano. No maintanance needed at all. And the good quality sound remains the same all year around. But the bottom line is, again, that it sometimes sounds digital. I feel there's some limitation especially when I want to play quiet, intimate, and intricate notes. I got N1X mainly because of its authentic grand piano action. I wanted to train myself for recitals, which often I got to play at a grand piano. Acoustic upright piano would sound great if it's always well maintained and in tune. But personally that doesn't fit to my purpose cause upright action is very different from grand action that I need to get used to.

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