nicknameTaken Del Vento I guess. But why upload it to Vimeo. It cost me 5 minutes to create yet another account… I already have 250 accounts for online stuff. It's getting annoying.
HZPiano I'm not willing to create more accounts if I can help it, so I can't watch/hear your clavichord victory.
I agree and I am sorry. The internet sucks and those that force people this way should burn to hell.
David B Is the restriction a regional thing?
navindra Must be a bug or a sneaky way for Vimeo to keep costs down.
I agree and I don't understand. Can't find any settings doing what you guys are reporting.
CyberGene Recently Vimeo started asking for people to log in, which is the case here, and that's pretty annoying.
If that's the case, they suck too, and I'm going to ask you, @CyberGene to host our video website, pretty please 🤣
Regarding the why, because youtube sucks more. See https://pianoclack.com/forum/d/349-my-latest-recording and https://pianoclack.com/forum/d/304-youtube-copyright-claims
David B It sounds like there is something cackling in the background. Is that a bird?
Yes! Very quiet bird too, but not very distant. Gain was very high. There was also a little bit of a rain falling, but I could not hear it with my ears.
David B The clavichord sounds nice. You did a good job. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for your nice words.
HZPiano Cheers and happy restorations,
Thanks 🙂
CyberGene @Del Vento sounds pretty good to me! It's a very interesting project and I have myself considered getting a clavichord kit.
Pretty fun thing if you like that sort of work. This was a kit that someone else built (with some arguable choices) which I am now "restoring"
navindra Why is a clavichord harder to play than a piano?
First, it's quiet. So you have to be very attentive.
Second, the key dip is only 2mm vs the 10mm or so of the piano, so you have to do whatever you do with the touch in a much shorter space.
Third, the keys themselves are smaller, so there's a bit of that "cramped" feeling of those small keys (not as tiny as the cheap controllers, though).
Last and most importantly, there is no escapement, that means that the key and the string remain in contact for the whole duration of the sound, from the beginning to the end. And you have to control the keypress with utmost care from beginning to the end. In the piano, the escapement guarantees that you will get an at least decent sound (or at most no sound) for each key press. On the clavichord, is common for beginners to get "spitting" instead of sound, if the first contact with the strings is not confident enough. On the other hand, if the first contact is too sharp (as is the case on many of my keystrokes in that recording) the strings bend for the same principle that @CyberGene described for the aftertouch. So you have control of the pitch, which was considered useful for changing the intonation and temperament of instrument during playing (rather than at tuning time), but as you can hear in the recording if you don't have full control it sounds a bit more out of tune than it is.
Finally, this is a tripled-fretted clavichord, which means that three notes share a common pair of strings. As such, you can play only one of these three notes at the time (composer's problem, not player), and the legato touch between them needs even more care because you risk to not sounding one note, or creating other unwanted noises.
In any case, it's very fun!
