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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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♪♪