New Baldwin Pianos, any good?

Piano Talk with Glenn Treibitz, watch as Glenn gives you an overview of what the Baldiwin Piano Company is doing today. The Baldwin Piano Company has been known for decades as "America's Favorite Piano" .
The Baldwin Piano Company is a division of the Gibson Guitar company. For the last 5 years Hollywood Piano has been the number one seller of Baldwin pianos in North America. There is a very good reason for this success. It's the sound! Baldwin's uprights time honored original scales and material recipe produces the classic American sound at a fraction of what it would cost to buy a piano from the two remaining American makers.
Compared to similar priced pianos from Asian brands the sound difference of the Baldwin is dramatic to the listener. If you are someone who loves the old American sound and have been considering a pre-owned older piano check out the new Baldwins.
The upright piano models formerly made in the USA are now made in their overseas factory. The classic Acrosonic, the Hamliton Studio, the model 248 and the concert vertical are alive and better than ever and still made by Baldwin to the original designs but in their company owned over seas Facilities. The uprights are made to the famous Baldwin materials spec for them.
Come in and try them out for yourself. We think you'll me amazed.
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SKIP INTRO 0:17
BALDWIN HISTORY 0:17 - 3:13
NOTABLE PERFORMERS WHO PLAYED BALDWIN 3:13 - 4:21
BALDWIN LINE, DEMENSTRATION AND WHATS IN STOCK 4:21 - 17:13
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[@larrycooper7408]

As a former Baldwin employee it's good to see our name again. I would like to see them in person. I have played them for 60years+.

[@Victor-ze3sd]

Hi, what do you think about the baldwin 248e upright piano ?

[@bandar7891]

If I were you i would have stocked one or two before they turn to Chinese junk

[@larrycooper7408]

@@bandar7891 an sd 10 has always been rather expensive..

[@AL-pu7ux]

My Baldwin from the mid-80’s allowed me to accomplish a lot. I’m so grateful.

[@AbeAsmr2201]

Man I love Baldwin pianos in general. they are one of my all time favorite acoustic piano manufacturers ever existed in the United States & I really like how Baldwin made high quality pianos that make a unique sound & I Don’t know why they stopped making them & they started to flee out of the piano industry but overall these acoustic pianos are really high quality musical instruments & pianos 🎹 in general so that’s all the information about this company known as Baldwin so I hope Baldwin gets back to business 👍🏼

[@RoseLoveCo]

awesome history lesson about Baldwin, learned something new 🙌🏼👍🏼❤️

[@Hollywoodpiano]

THANK YOU😊

[@johnellis3244]

Can I sum this up in a couple of sentences Baldwin when produced/made in the US was a great piano played/preferred by many. Now they are made in China who can knock out five of them for the price of one should it be made in the US. Glenn you look an intelligent man I hope you know where I am going with this? all I am hearing here is a cheap marketing ploy based on what Baldwin were in their golden age brushing over what they really are today i.e. a mass produced Chinese piano. You get your commission for selling these Frankenstein's but how many will be around in 40 years time? Maybe I'm being a bit harsh here but I have seen, heard nd played enough Chinese pianos to last me a life time.

[@jakedaniel66]

I’d like to see a KZbin review of the Chinese Baldwin grands done by an impartial observer instead of a “Baldwin” salesman.

[@zackeryhardy9504]

I have installed a player system on a few of them. I cannot say they are bad. I mean the chinese companies have come a long way. But they by no means are top quality. They got some cheaper aspects to them. Less than a kawai or yamaha, but more than a pearl river.

[@minggao5002]

The key word is former.... Steinway still being made in Queens NY and Hamburg Germany, C. Bechstein still being made in Berlin Germany and Bosendorfer still being made in Vienne Austria. American sound made in China. Is there a Baldwin in Whitehouse?

[@rogershaffer1]

Jake , they are not Chinese Baldwins. They are a piano built by Parsons Music. They also build Yangzte River, Brodmann,, and A.Geyer. They do have a small amount of features of the original Baldwin. In my 42 year career I have owned dozens of Baldwin pianos produced in US. 😊Not one of them did I care for the sound

[@davidchan7531]

i have a Baldwin, very happy with it

[@bandar7891]

US or China made??

[@davidchan7531]

@@bandar7891 china made

[@georgemorales1153]

we did it again awesome content love filming these

[@Hollywoodpiano]

YES WE DID

[@jacobneal5388]

I have played almost any of the old baldwins you could think of. These pianos sound nothing like the old ones. They lack any kind of richness or color. One of the reasons I was so impressed with the smaller uprights from Baldwin was the the powerful and rich tone. The newer baldwins are definitely lacking what made Baldwin so popular back in the day.

[@larrycooper7408]

I played many Hamitons over the years.

[@tonyromano4341]

What has happened to Baldwin is a shame. I have a 1943 model L that is an amazing instrument. You couldn't give me a new Baldwin. The stuff coming out of China is Baldwin by name only. I would rather have a used Sojin (Korean made by Daewoo) than a new Baldwin.

[@philosophicallyspeaking6463]

This proposed sound is not an accurate refection of these Baldwin's potential. I've heard new 'Parson-built' Baldwins sound great prepared for delivery! This prep isn't served by a good temperament, nor are they voiced for sales purposes to sound like anything other than a generic piano, fresh from a Chinese factory. Supposedly, Baldwins are well made to their own specs in a dedicated manufacturing area in Parson's facility. If you want a old-school Baldwin 'esque' sound (something rather more...Steinwinian) as do I, you will need a technician that understands how to reliably massage that latent potential out of an instrument that actually possess its seeds, and the new Baldwins do. But That takes hours of prep! They can sound wonderfully complex given half a chance, but dealers, not realizing this, don't persist to this end for what it costs them. The manufacture of a piano is not the problem, and bang for buck, the Chinese have this down to a science. But the 'art' is realized by the skilled hand of the technician 'after' you take delivery. The price of fine German built pianos justifies the hours of 'prep' the vendor invests to realize 'their' dormant and dominant potential, and the same is the case with these Baldwins, if not so too other Chinese manufactured pianos. For routinely achieving it, some dealers actually know that these instruments are worth the effort and investment for coming from the factory possessed of the additional potential you pay for to win privilege of this branding, and spend as much as 20 hours realizing its new pedigree in preparation for delivery. The results speak for themself. kzbin.info/www/bejne/h3bPg5iMlNChp8U

[@rogershaffer1]

At 4:00 Mary McPartland is playing a Steinway 😊

[@zdogg8]

In your list of artists, how did you forget Erroll Garner, who was the face of Baldiwin campaigns in the early seventies (and perhaps well before that). Really the biggest name in piano playing at least in my book. You mentioned Dick Hyman, well, Dick would agree with that assessment, as would Brubeck.

[@AL-pu7ux]

Baldwin-esque but seem brighter in the treble with less clarity in the bass. Old Baldwins were meant to rival Steinway. Clearly that’s not what they’re going for here.

[@CxldStxr]

Do you guys have classes ? If so how much ?! And great editing 🔥💪🏽

[@Hollywoodpiano]

Thanks you so much, if you're interested in playing come on by and meet our staff or send us a email to [e-mail]

[@Bobby007D]

I got my Baldwin M 5' 3" piano made in the USA in 1998 . I wouldn't touch a Baldwin of China if you paid me. OK , if you pay me , I'll touch it for a second.

[@zdogg8]

You play and communicate so well, let's get a better piano mic stereo set up. The pianos sound muffled, and it sounds as if it is not the piano but the microphone.

[@minggao5002]

Why Steinway, C Bechstein, and Bosendorfer do not have this concern?

[@jamesmcdunn]

So, let's see if I have this straight, Richard Carpenter plays the Baldwin STEINWAY piano? I didn't know there WAS such a thing!

[@MrSweelinck]

Yeah ... I'm sure that endorsement was in the days of SFs and SDs ... You'll often see Carpenters videos with a prominent Baldwin grand piano on stage, but 90% of the time Richard was playing a Wurlitzer 200 electric piano, or occasionally a Rhodes 73. I think Gibson's takeover ... ummm ... partnership was to keep the name alive. Not sure it was a good deal all around. Then again, a lot of what was coming out of Arkansas toward the end was probably on par with Chinese pianos of the time. QC issues all around. Then again, that's also when Aeolian was also doing the budget thing with their premium brands. Pianos just aren't as popular as they were in the 60s and 70s. Even harder to compete now with all the digital offerings.

[@larrycooper7408]

Mr Baldwin was a steinway dealer before he started making his own.

[@jacobneal8090]

Used to play a Baldwin. But now Steinway cause you know, Baldwin is no longer in there prime.

[@zeldaoftime]

Do you recommend buy a bp1 2019 model?

[@robertbangkok]

well.. i waited for the 9' (sigh)

[@DerrickBoundsMusic]

At NAMM a couple years ago, there were no 9' Baldwins on display. Are they still making it?

[@donprior9144]

Typical salesman trying to sell you a great piano but lets face it these Baldwin pianos are nothing compared to the ones made in the states. As player/rebuilder I have played new Chinese Baldwins and they lack everything that Baldwins used to be. Their uprights have false beats in the upper register and the grand lack depth of tone quality. The only things these pianos have are they look like a piano. Buy a good used American Baldwin.

[@benedictdsilva3954]

Interesting history... But the tone is the usual Chinese sound and rather poor tone.. In 2018 I played a 9' Niendorf ofcourse now made in China...It just had no tone. It's ok for the usual Chinese pianos but when a good brand name is being use...they should work on the sound. Also the centre pedal on grand pianos almost always is sostenuto not bass sustain. It's not quite the same. In comparison any Indonesian piano would sound better..

[@tracyd1233]

My Baldwin 1983 console (Made in America) has bass sustain.

[@koreylackford5621]

Baldwin the family of male actors? Lol

[@Hollywoodpiano]

HAHA no not those Baldwins, but I'm sure they own a piano or two