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Topic: Is that good for you ?

Take a look on this piano:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rabeInl-7nY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlHlBIP2guk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5ozSQWV...re=related


This is a piano brand called Fritz Dobbert, a brazilial manufacturer.
Piano manufacturers got a bad time about 20 years ago, due a economic plan that frozzed accounts, and expansive aquisitions become a real problem, so piano aquisition got rare and some manufacturers broke or got nightmare problems. 
Fritz Dobbert survived. The only latin american factory of gand pianos.



I played one in a music school, but was not tunned and not well maintained, had few cracks in soundboard, so I couldn't judge the sound from living playingl.  But the keyboard touch was fine, not heavy or too light, well balanced.


Well, how this piano sound for you juddging for the videos ?  What do you like on it, and waht you do not like?
Be sincere.

Last edited by Beto-Music (30-09-2012 18:33)

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Re: Is that good for you ?

Nobody???

I was just waiting what you think about the piano sound of the videos.
Second link is the best to judge.

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I've listened to the second video. I think its a very nice piano sound, very charming. It fits the music played very well and has that natural sounding imperfections in the sound. I think the knock noise of the hammers play an important role. It's always hard to describe what you like in a piano sound, maybe this is what is called woodness
btw. its interesting to know that there is one brazilian piano manufacturer. I've never heard of it before.

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Sure is the best example, of a piano sound - you can see why this brand would survive, when others wouldn't. The playing too is fine.

Can't say the same for the arrangement. To start, it's from a DUET, with bystander, and it ends like THIS. Which you'd never get a clue about from listening here. It's been taken out of context, as the politicians say. Right out.

The player in the third example is impressive (the reproduction isn't). A past master of technique, glad to know about him!

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Re: Is that good for you ?

Thanks Sebion and Custral.

There was also  brazilian factory for pianos Essenfelder, originally from german imigrants that moved to Brazil long time ago, but the factory got new admistration and and quality drops dramatically and few time lader they closed.

There is this video of a Essenfelder imperial, but I'm not sure if it was made on Brazil or if it's a Essenfelder from another country or something like that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-qqVBicQJ0