Improvisation on one of our best pianos in stock: Bluthner style 8 1928. + "An afternoon stroll":

3:14 "An afternoon stroll from 1 to 5".
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[@2Hearts3]

Yes! More! Encore!✨👏 Marcus, your playing is beautiful, An Afternoon Stroll indeed, always welcome and easy to listen to, and exemplifying the beauty of the piano. Looking forward to more videos like this one 🎹✨ Thank you 👏

[@RobertsPianos]

Thank you for your encouragement! I realise that my playing is somewhat limited but am hoping the challenge of publishing it will help me to improve. Marcus

[@raymondmiller5098]

Excellent vid and piano playing, Marcus! (Your Bluthner sounds as nice as my 1932 that I bought a few years ago from the 85-year-old son of its original owner.)

[@RobertsPianos]

Thank you for your encouragement. Marcus

[@sashole1]

Fantastic improvisation playing, Marcus, on a fantastic instrument. Thank you so very much for posting the video!

[@RobertsPianos]

Thank you for your encouragement and kind comments as always! Marcus

[@p1anosteve]

Lovely piano and perfectly recorded sound too. Your improvisation is very good Marcus, something I don't do enough of. Your piece Afternoon Stroll is also a charming walk through the circle of 5ths. Thanks for sharing. 🙂

[@RobertsPianos]

Thank you so much for your encouragement. I'm trying to find more time to improvise too as it seems to stimulate new ideas. A client of ours, Nick Hooper, records and publishes a new improvisation most days; it's on a Bluthner style VI 1924.

[@marksmale827]

Lovely rich mellow tone as you would expect from Bluethner.

[@oncall3570]

Thank you for your very helpful content! Before my wife decided to return to her first love (piano), and bought a 1926 style IVa (165cm, non-aliquot, non-Bluthner action, single piece ivories), your amazing content really helped her confidence to choose the right instrument. We continue to watch your videos, and always catch an interesting comment or two. We cannot thank you enough for sharing your kind wisdom and helping us choose a 99 year old masterpiece from a fantastic local restorer here in South Australia, instead of a far lesser, new piano. I am sure a lot of gifted players will enjoy the detail you share about these wonderful instruments, which deserve far better care than many of them get. Keep up the beautiful work, and perhaps move to a new mic (Rode are very good)- we keep hearing distortion ruin things when you play those lovely pianos!

[@RobertsPianos]

Thank you for your encouraging comment. With regards to the mic, we are very limited with time so currently we use the internal iPhone microphones for the final playing without any speech and the Hollyland Lark M2 for combined speech and playing. we used to use Rode wireless GO before that. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Marcus

[@oncall3570]

​@@RobertsPianos Understand. Most of your content sounds great. Usually positioning a phone for both video and audio is problematic. If getting new, I imagine Rode GO II would best to capture talking and playing- one for the piano, one for narration.

[@runner0075]

Excellent sound, even better then some modern named pianos. With a bit of vintage colour

[@RobertsPianos]

Thank you for your comment. Yes, this age of top quality grand has far more work put into it than a modern piano. Marcus

[@cliveparaschis]

Another piano lucky enough to have passed through the doors of your business…lovely tenor and bass

[@RobertsPianos]

Thank you for your kind comment! Marcus

[@damianc7692]

Wonderful Marcus.

[@RobertsPianos]

Thank you for your encouragement! Marcus

[@unequally-tempered]

I’ve just tuned one of these instruments in unequal temperament as subsidiary to the Steinway model B in the Magaron concert hall in Kalamata. It’s a very interesting and musical sound with a character, rich tone and good harmonic content

[@RobertsPianos]

Thanks David. Interesting to know that you also tune in Kalamata which I presume is in Greece. Do you tune there often? Marcus

[@unequally-tempered]

@@RobertsPianos Yes. All the instruments at the Conservatoire, Megaron and Ballet School are now tuned to unequal temperament. There is musical demand for it and the method I use gives resonance which maks a Model B sound like a Model C, a baby grand sound larger, and enable under-powered instruments to serve in larger spaces. At the Ballet School a Yamaha C108 gave a much bigger and more harmonious impression of itself. Down in the Mani a Yamaha C3 serves another outside concert space kzbin.info/www/bejne/iIncnqijoZVmpqc and people have commented that my tuning and voicing of a Yamaha makes it sound more like a Bosendorfer. In the ancient amphitheatre at Messini where transport of a large instrument isn't possible, we're expecting a baby Yamaha to work for a recital successfully in September. In Nice this year the Competition was presented with a C6 rather than C7 to compete with an overpowering orchestra but my methods enabled it to work. kzbin.info/www/bejne/lWaVhH17nL5lj7c. Back on subject, the Bluthner of the same model as yours is a much more interesting sound than the Steinway Model B. Tuning really can make the difference to pianos as well as bringing the music to life.

[@Jacky-js4fy]

I wish my 1891 6/3 Bluthner sounded this good.

[@RobertsPianos]

It should be a fine piano as Bluthners are very consistent. Perhaps a good technician can help improve the tone and touch. Marcus

[@Jacky-js4fy]

@@RobertsPianos I'd like to get your son to come and work on it. My piano tuner was supposed to have came back after he turned it an improve the touch and the tone of it but never showed up. He was really impressed with the piano to say the least. Thanks marcus.

[@Jesusloves3]

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[@RobertsPianos]

Totally agree! Marcus