A Short History of Broadwood Pianos

[@philipbay1548]

Thank you for this wonderful video! I own a Broadwood built in 1792, no 2056

[@robertcook2572]

How does it play? Have you had any work done on it?

[@philipbay1548]

@@robertcook2572 It plays but currently it is missing all of its under dampers. Someone at some point in the past decided to remove them. Many of the iron strings are original. Once a new set of dampers is made I plan on making a few videos.

[@robertcook2572]

@@philipbay1548 I hope you do. Have you seen Tomy Hovington's series on restoring an 1847 model? It's fascinating.

[@philipbay1548]

@@robertcook2572 I have not, no. Do you have the link?

[@robertcook2572]

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[@chopin1556]

The first piece is lovely what is it?

[@vincentneale2620]

I have tuned the very last John Broadwood piano made Its was bought during the auction when Broadwood stopped production its now in a house in the town of Hengoed in the Rhymney Valley

[@cocopopsta]

Forgive my ignorance but are they no longer made? Website shows they are, unless company changed hands and I don’t know the details

[@johnbrereton5229]

@@cocopopsta Yes, Broadwood are still being made and Dr Alastair Lawrence who is featured in this video is their MD.

[@johnl4310]

Was this filmed at Finchcocks Museum?

[@davidursin2150]

Really enjoyed this video! BTW what work are you playing at 3:10 - 3:30?

[@marko2873]

Clementi - Sonatina in C major, op. 36 no. 1

[@MrInterestingthings]

Very shallow keybed on pre1920 instruments so pianist has to be very sensitive to a shorter range of up and down. Our roughness is a forte on most pianos then so we have to learn to be in tune more responsive with the mechanism .

[@orsino88]

Huh? The late 18th century invented melody? Have you ever heard a single tune published by the Playford firm from 1650 onward? Anything at all by Handel? Foolish; ill-informed.

[@willemceuleers6041]

oh, well, at the same time in Vienna there were over a hundred piano manufacterers. London the epicentre? Don't think so.

[@gadrian58]

By the end of the 18th century their were 60 piano manufacturers in Vienna, not hundreds. In London there were about the same which included the worlds oldest John Broadwood est in 1728. The difference though is that the London manufactures used the English action and the Viennese the Vianese action where the hammers pointed towards the player. The English action is what modern grand actions are based on and had the hammers pointing away from the player. So therefore it's right to say London was the centre of piano manufacturing, because they were producing pianos of world leading technology that survives today. Whereas, Viennese pianos became obsolete.

[@babyskunkcat]

Holy shit all of you should shut the fuck up. Nobody cares about your knowledge of piano manufacturers of the 18th century.

[@keithtpullin]

@@babyskunkcat Where ignorance is bliss, tis folly to be wise !!

[@lucaslemonholm6410]

I also wouldn't describe fortepianos as newly expressive. Most people don't have an appreciation of just how popular clavichords (particularly expressive instruments) were in the renaissance through the gallant. J.S. Bach's first biographer, who consulted Bach's sons, for instance, concluded that most of Bach's solo keyboard works were written specifically for the clavichord.