Steingraeber Gralsglocken für Richard Wagner - Steingraeber's Parsifal Bells for Richard Wagner

Drei Gralsglocken im Vergleich: Glockenklavier Ed. Steingraeber von 1882 sowie Gralsglocken Steingraeber von 1914 und 1926.
Comparison of 3 Parsifal Bells: The Parsifal Bells Piano by Ed. Steingraeber (1882) and Steingraeber's Parsifal Bells made in 1914 and 1926, respectively.

Beyond Extraordinary, fantastic!!

[@yummyyum36719]

Wagner was writing for a future that was only half available in his own time. He himself was rather enigmatic about it as well. On one hand he pushed for innovation. On the other hand he tended to be suspicious of technology. When approached with Edison's phonograph he had no interest in being recorded. Likewise he still notated for horn as though it had no valves when his music would be impossible to play without valves. I love the 1926 and 1882 models. They sound right. The 1914 sounds a bit weak. Now however the obvious answer is something synthetic that can be used with a live orchestra.

[@javiermarting]

Thanks for sharing, it is very interesting to see and hear the instruments used since the first Parsifal performances, with Wagner himself alive! But to be honest, I always thought it doesn’t sound any close to “bells”. A string instrument used as a substitute for bells... I don’t know.

[@immerschlechtgelaunt]

Wunderbarer Klang! Das 1914er gefällt am besten.

[@CharlesLangSamuel]

Waere das Udo? Is that Udo (Steingraeber)? Is the video a performance of Wagner??

[@steingraeberpianos]

***** Yes and yes :-) It is part of Wagner's opera Parsifal.

[@officermurdoch4120]

And now with orchestra! ;-)

[@dibaldgyfm9933]

I love clips like this - exposing the ridiculeness of Wagner's musical taste.

[@gunnarthorsen]

Yet here you came, despite seeing the name "Wagner" in the clip title.

[@Mike-uk3vl]

@@gunnarthorsen I viewed the video because of the unique Steingraber instruments. Nothing to do with Wagner, whose music I do not like at all.

[@yummyyum36719]

@@Mike-uk3vl If you don't like Wagner's music at then your opinions about this monumental piece of Wagnerian history also mean nothing at all.

[@yummyyum36719]

Yeah ridiculously fantastic. And BTW it's spelled "Ridiculousness". Invective should be spelled correctly.

[@dibaldgyfm9933]

@@yummyyum36719 :: Thanks for word-info; I am glad you understood my intent. And yes, I should not ridicule R.Wagner, but I really feel sorry for him that he added so much noise to music so that he was the perfect "religion" for the Nazi regime.