Chopin's Piano -- 1844 Pleyel with ORIGINAL 1840's grey Felt hammers made of fine wool and beaver
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This is an informal demo
This is an informal demo of an 1844 Pleyel with the original felt salvaged from the un-worn sides and re-applied on the tips of the hammers.
The felt is an invention by Henry Pape and was the first type of felt used on hammer-coverings. It was applied without tension, glued-on the surface around the circumference of the hammer including the tip
This is as close as you can get to how the piano originally sounded, in my opinion.
Liszt describes the sound of Chopin's Pleyel as having a 'veiled sonority'
quite unlike today's pianos which are hard-sounding and brilliant.
Restorations usually involve a white wool-felt which is either too dense and/or too thick, with fibres that are too thick, resulting in a percussive, thin sound and an imbalance between bass and treble registers.
Only the Pape-felt has the ability to play pianissimo but to become louder when played with more force, because of it's fine fibres (close to 15 micrometers), low density (24 grams circa) and low-resiliency due to the use of beaver fur fibres.
The felt is an invention by Henry Pape and was the first type of felt used on hammer-coverings. It was applied without tension, glued-on the surface around the circumference of the hammer including the tip
This is as close as you can get to how the piano originally sounded, in my opinion.
Liszt describes the sound of Chopin's Pleyel as having a 'veiled sonority'
quite unlike today's pianos which are hard-sounding and brilliant.
Restorations usually involve a white wool-felt which is either too dense and/or too thick, with fibres that are too thick, resulting in a percussive, thin sound and an imbalance between bass and treble registers.
Only the Pape-felt has the ability to play pianissimo but to become louder when played with more force, because of it's fine fibres (close to 15 micrometers), low density (24 grams circa) and low-resiliency due to the use of beaver fur fibres.
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