Timeline for What modern innovations have been/are being made for the piano?
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| Mar 7, 2023 at 22:39 | answer | added | Darrel Hoffman | timeline score: 2 | |
| Mar 7, 2023 at 20:54 | comment | added | Aaron | @DarrelHoffman Cool. Glad you followed up, and seems like a good answer to the OP. | |
| Mar 7, 2023 at 20:50 | comment | added | Darrel Hoffman | @Aaron Old post I know, but I've just learned the official name for the device in my piano which makes it sound like a harpsichord. It's called a "Mandolin rail", and while rare, it's at least not completely unique. I believe it is in fact after-market, and can probably be added to any upright. (I don't think it'd work on a grand, but there may be something similar for them.) | |
| Dec 26, 2021 at 1:58 | history | edited | Aaron | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 18, 2021 at 7:27 | comment | added | Kris Van Bael | @Aaron no worries. I never took it as over-reacting. Still noble of you to come back on this. | |
| Jan 18, 2021 at 5:36 | comment | added | Aaron | @KrisVanBael I agree with phoog's comment. Your mention of MIDI-enabled acoustic piano is a major innovation and worthy of mention. My apologies for over-reacting at the time. | |
| Jan 18, 2021 at 5:36 | comment | added | Aaron | @phoog Fair enough. At the time, I was really thinking of electronic keyboards, which clearly isn't what KrisVanBael was commenting about. | |
| Jan 18, 2021 at 5:34 | comment | added | phoog | @KrisVanBael ... That comment should be an answer, not a comment. | |
| Jan 18, 2021 at 5:33 | comment | added | phoog | @Aaron a midi-enabled piano with servo motors isn't appreciably different from a player piano as far as organology is concerned. It's certainly not a whole new instrument, and ... | |
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| Jan 13, 2021 at 10:49 | answer | added | Clockwork | timeline score: 2 | |
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| Nov 30, 2020 at 3:41 | vote | accept | Aaron | ||
| Nov 29, 2020 at 2:04 | history | edited | Aaron | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 28, 2020 at 0:48 | history | edited | Aaron | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 27, 2020 at 12:57 | answer | added | Brian THOMAS | timeline score: 2 | |
| Nov 27, 2020 at 5:18 | answer | added | Jyrki Lahtonen | timeline score: 2 | |
| Nov 26, 2020 at 2:19 | comment | added | bandybabboon | As one of the most popular musical instruments, i'd say the piano is close to perfection. what would we mechanically want from it? range? integrated effects? | |
| Nov 25, 2020 at 18:55 | answer | added | user11599 | timeline score: 5 | |
| Nov 25, 2020 at 16:45 | answer | added | bad question asker | timeline score: 3 | |
| Nov 25, 2020 at 13:17 | answer | added | gnarrithas | timeline score: 14 | |
| Nov 25, 2020 at 2:02 | answer | added | MaxD | timeline score: 2 | |
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| Nov 24, 2020 at 18:25 | answer | added | Bruce Kamolnick | timeline score: 5 | |
| Nov 24, 2020 at 16:13 | comment | added | Darrel Hoffman | @Aaron Just had a look, it's marked The Richmond Piano Co. on the inside (it has a glass front and a light inside, so you can see the mechanism). It's possible the harpsichord modification is after-market, I'm not the first owner. | |
| Nov 24, 2020 at 16:08 | comment | added | Aaron | @DarrelHoffman Who is the maker of your piano? I'd like to look them up. | |
| Nov 24, 2020 at 16:06 | comment | added | Darrel Hoffman | @Graham Sort of, though it's not a metal strip so much as individual metal rectangles for every key. And it has an advantage over the tack piano in that it's optional - without that pedal it still sounds like a normal piano. (I personally almost never use the feature, it's just kind of a unusual novelty.) | |
| Nov 24, 2020 at 15:48 | comment | added | Graham | @DarrelHoffman This sounds like some kind of mechanical way to make it sound like a tack piano (see my answer). Per the Wikipedia entry for "sostenuto", the middle pedal for some pianos engaged an extra damper. It's possible that yours has this kind of mechanism, and someone at some point in the piano's history has seen the possibility of replacing that damper with a metal strip instead. | |
| Nov 24, 2020 at 15:44 | answer | added | Graham | timeline score: 9 | |
| Nov 24, 2020 at 15:04 | comment | added | Darrel Hoffman | I have an upright piano that has a feature I've never seen on any other - the middle pedal causes little pieces of metal to interpose between the hammers and strings, making the instrument sound almost like a harpsichord (albeit still with variable dynamics, which a true harpsichord doesn't generally have). I don't know how common or how old this feature is, but it's an interesting variant. | |
| Nov 24, 2020 at 14:21 | comment | added | Clockwork | More of a trivia than an answer, but there's also a random guy who tried cutting off the strings of his piano to replace them with guitar strings. The resulting instrument has a softer sound than the piano does, and somewhat sounds like a guitar too. The strings easily break though. | |
| Nov 24, 2020 at 14:16 | comment | added | Clockwork | I remember reading "someone" (I can't even remember who) mentioning that there have been progress in how pianos are made in the past century, even if the piano by itself remains unchanged as an instrument. | |
| Nov 24, 2020 at 14:11 | answer | added | horatz | timeline score: 17 | |
| Nov 24, 2020 at 13:33 | answer | added | niemiro | timeline score: 5 | |
| Nov 24, 2020 at 13:01 | answer | added | MMazzon | timeline score: 5 | |
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| Nov 24, 2020 at 10:01 | comment | added | Tim | Sostenuto pedal, from the mid 1800s, is probably included in your list. Sadly it's not included in many pianos except in U.S. | |
| Nov 24, 2020 at 9:33 | history | edited | Aaron | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 24, 2020 at 9:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackMusic/status/1331160666108006401 | ||
| Nov 24, 2020 at 8:21 | comment | added | Aaron | @KrisVanBael Thanks for leaving that as a comment rather than an answer. Once electronics enter the picture, it's really a whole new instrument. | |
| Nov 24, 2020 at 8:11 | answer | added | DavidW | timeline score: 17 | |
| Nov 24, 2020 at 8:08 | comment | added | Kris Van Bael | The last 2 decades most innovation budget seems to go to MIDI enabled pianos with servo mechanisms to replay. In the 80s Kawai also experimented with plastic parts in the hammer mechanism. | |
| Nov 24, 2020 at 7:46 | answer | added | Dave Jacoby | timeline score: 3 | |
| Nov 24, 2020 at 4:49 | answer | added | Edward | timeline score: 33 | |
| Nov 24, 2020 at 4:20 | history | asked | Aaron | CC BY-SA 4.0 |