tmyoung wrote:Modarrt has finally emulated a Steinway Square piano! There's a new instrument pack with several early piano designs. Steinway achieved his fame first and foremost for his square pianos, so having access to this should be very instructive for looking at the kind of pianos you would find a regular home during middle and latter portion of the 19th Century (Uprights are a more 20th Century entity than an earlier one).
I know these will be useful for the kind of research and writing I do, but I'm also looking forward to the samples that the community creates. Thank you Modarrt for continuing to assist in historical instrument preservation (and sparing me trying to figure out how to emulate a square piano using existing instrument packs)! ;)
Example of a Steinway Square piano:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1TK1x9fO9o
Frequently, I have made posts about the lack of American grand pianos —like Baldwins, NY Steinways, Etc.— being anywhere represented. Now I’ve come to the conclusion quite likely, that they have been seen only as outspoken complaints and even criticisms against MODARTT itself and its team outright.
If MODARTT or anyone at it has a sense of humor, I am nobody now laughing at it.
Modarrt has finally emulated a Steinway Square piano!
The so-called square piano is from a period in antebellum American history!
Steinway achieved his fame first and foremost for his square pianos, so having access to this should be very instructive for looking at the kind of pianos you would find a regular home during middle and latter portion of the 19th Century (Uprights are a more 20th Century entity than an earlier one).
Regularly now I hear mentioned some new normal. However, I may become very interested to read: the writings of the man from Utah (where personally I lived and as a youngster there attended a school). (Which is now a university campus, a research one, having its own research library.)
I know these will be useful for the kind of research and writing I do, but I'm also looking forward to the samples that the community creates. Thank you Modarrt for continuing to assist in historical instrument preservation (and sparing me trying to figure out how to emulate a square piano using existing instrument packs)! ;)
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