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There is a reason why Pianists still love and use mechanical, wooden keyboards designed 100 years ago.
by holri 12y ago
There is a reason why Pianists still love and use mechanical, wooden keyboards designed 100 years ago.
- keehun 12y agoPre-WWI pianos from Vienna (the one I met was a Steinway) still have ivory on the keys instead of some white coating they have on the keys now. Those ivory keys are unlike any other piano I've touched. Amazingly contradictory feelings of how sturdy the keys feel without the cold-edges. Very soft, but hard at the same time. Amazing.
- holri 12y agoYou probably mean Bösendorfer? This is a Viennese company, Steinway not. Their playability is incredible. The touch and sensibility of such instruments even from 1910 (restored) is unbelievable.