Modartt user forum - Queen Victoria's Erard

Re: Queen Victoria's Erard

2021-01-27T08:26:15Z

peterws wrote:

Maybe we could do with a bit of opulence in high society again; the proletariat are getting a bit uppity of late.

Put away the guillotine lads it's the Scarlet Pimpernel!
Maybe it's always there no matter who you dethrone?

Re: Queen Victoria's Erard

2021-01-27T06:27:20Z

I definitely miss a pair of monkeys playing drums on my piano. Alla turca doesn't sound the same.

Re: Queen Victoria's Erard

2021-01-26T23:15:56Z

A beautiful piano, splendid in every respect. I love straight strung pianos, and played a couple of these in a piano shop in Porthmadoc. They lacked the gold bits, but sounded nice.
I use the Erard regularly on Pianoteq; it has a nice tone as the vid showed.
Lovely instrument! The royals went over to Broadwood, it being the only quality piano maker left in the UK now. I owned one, an 1856 7'6" model which had no escapement or much that's in a complex grand action now. That too, sounded well.

Maybe we could do with a bit of opulence in high society again; the proletariat are getting a bit uppity of late.

Re: Queen Victoria's Erard

2021-01-26T19:16:44Z

Amaryllis wrote:

Such a beautiful harpsichord !

It's just Victorian bling!
The whole room it was in was practically dripping with gold leaf paint. Chocolate box beauty. A vulgar display of their ill gotten gains.

That's history though, and hopefully the whole royal nonsense will come to an end in a generation or two.

I found the video interesting.

Re: Queen Victoria's Erard

2021-01-26T19:00:14Z

Such a beautiful harpsichord !

Re: Queen Victoria's Erard

2021-01-26T18:20:18Z

A couple of years ago Stephen Hough played a very memorable Prom concert on this instrument:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDDI8yJ..._rel_pause

Queen Victoria's Erard

2021-01-26T17:34:29Z

https://youtu.be/42dVW7Btjmc