One Italian clavichord with two bridges
Italian clavichord with two bridges designed and made by Franco Bandera in 1985 and renovated in 2010.
In this video I show two combinations to dampen the left side of the vibrating string:
1) with only the cloth (touch softer, more modulated, but more noisy)
2) with the addition of a table over the cloth (touch harder, less modulation but a bit louder).
Instrument with 22 pairs of strings in all brass, Scaling C 113.5, 227, 425.5, 765, 855 mm. spruce soundboard, walnut bridge, pitch 440 Hz,
music by Andrea Gabrieli, Intonationen: quinto tono and sesto tono.
Audio recording with Zoom H4 position 30 cm. from soundboard.
Thank you for your attention,
Franco Bandera
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Very interesting and lovely, too. Thank you.
Yes, as Sandy says, that is very interesting and worth watching. I think I prefer the more articulated sound of the instrument with the pressure board in place, but that is very subjective. There are many instruments with more than one bridge (virginals too). Is this an original design, or is it based on an historic instrument?
Whichever, Thank you.
@clementmatchett Thank you for your comment
Having said that I do not believe the dogma of copies of historical instruments, this instrument you see is based on my design that was inspired by various historical models,
greetings
Franco da Rovereto
@jeanlouchet , It is true that random mixtures are nonsense, but it is equally true that an intelligent redesign is the best way to understand, so did the early makers;
a copy of an early instrument is only an illusion for the simple reason that the wood is not a material reproduced.
Franco
P.S. Have you ever heard a violin maker to say who made a copy of a Stradivarius?
@jeanlouchet, The quality of the instrument depends only on the laws of nature … the difficulty is to understand them and put them into practice.
FB
I noticed you aren't playing with your thumbs, I once heard that was traditional Baroque practice, although I have not investigated that at all. Is that why your aren't using your thumbs?
@Bolognalegs , Yes, with early fingering it up and down with two fingers, dives in the modern fingering with five fingers including the thumb.
Bel video. Complimenti per l'uso della diteggiatura antica!
This was very educational for me. I just was thinking how would the clavichord actually sound and found this video. And I loved your ability to play without using thumbs. I think it's difficult. And I loved the sound of it, soft, singing sound. Thank you so much for you enthusiasm for clavichord.
I wish I could travel back in time and play this with all ten fingers, just to blow some baroque minds. They'd be all like "holy shit, you can do that!?!?"
thumb use at 2:37. oh snap
it's beautiful
Was Bach really the first to play with thumbs, or just the first to compose with a necessity for it?
Very interesting, this would be the way Bach or even Mozart would have learned to play, without the thumbs.
I've never heard it done more convincingly.
oh man thats just out of this world
Nice piece. Instrument sounds like strings over a cigar box. Played much too fast. The fact its old and from Italy is musically irrelevant.
I don't know why you're responding to my comment, but the clavichord in the video was made in 1985, so it's not that old, and I don't know if you've ever heard a clavichord before, but they have a quiet sound. In my opinion, the performance was great, andthis is a pleasant sounding instrument.
Very nice! He plays with the old technique without using the thumb… Impressive.
Nice playing and demonstration!
honestly whats the point of not using the thumbs?
amazing!!
Aww it's so little! Love it!
Convincing.