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This piano was built in 1828.

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It has not been
restored or rebuilt.

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So it's very different from the
pianos that we're accustomed to
today.

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For one thing, there aren't
88 keys on this piano.

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There's several left off here in
the base, three and seven left
off in the treble.

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So there are 78 keys in the
piano and the central
differences on the inside.

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There's no cast iron play.

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The piano is considerably less
resonant, more challenging to
sustain sounds.

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Right.
It looks very different inside.

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And so this would have been like
new for the time. Yes.

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This is cutting edge technology.

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For the Schumann's in a sense.

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Another feature of it
I noticed as I tried it was

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is that a damper pedal here
is actually quite noisy.

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So it's a challenge to play it

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and even be more of a challenge
to play with this piano.

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This is the
A. Tell me what you think of it.

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Wow. It's low.

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So low.

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It's almost painful.

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Yeah. Yes.

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Would it be okay if I,

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if I try to play a few notes
and it's sure. Yeah.

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I'm so interested in...

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♪♪

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The sound is so beautiful, but
it's really, really hard to
play,

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I have to admit. Valentino,
you are a really impressive

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pianist for a cellist.

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It would be really nice if we
could all play Schumann's
Quintet

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because we could hear it the way
Schumann heard it when he wrote
it. Yes.

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Let's try! It'll be challenging.

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♪♪