Tangetenflügel (tangent piano)

[Beedubyayardee]

Just heard about the Tangetenflügel (tangent piano) from an article in New York Times. https://nyti.ms/2MC0gXb?smid=nytcore-ios-share

From the article: “The tangent piano represents a broken branch in the genealogy of the piano. It was produced in the second half of the 18th century alongside the fortepiano, the immediate ancestor of today’s pianoforte. As early as 1751, Franz Jacob Späth, a builder of clavichords, fortepianos and organs, was producing tangent pianos in Regensburg, Germany, assisted later by his son-in-law and partner, Christoph Friedrich Schmahl. Fewer than 20 examples, fragile and temperamental, survive.

“The tangent piano’s simple playing action, in which only a couple of moving parts transmit the player’s finger energy to strike the strings, affords the performer intimate control of the sound. Small “tangents” of bare wood, rather than the felt-covered hammers of the modern piano, hit the strings with a truly percussive effect.”

Alexei Lubimov just recorded an album on a modern copy of a tangent piano. It sounds cool.

Could this be sampled and added to the Nord piano library?

[ChillOnTheSun]

Hey, I just bought that CD by ECM label. It is wonderful sound. And there is written the tangent piano is from Chris Maene collection. Same as are other historical pianos included in Nord Piano library.

[analogika]

Which of the three Chris Maene pianos is the Tangentenflügel?

http://www.nordkeyboards.com/sound-libr ... hris-maene

[ChillOnTheSun]

It is not included in Nord library. It is only in Chris Maene collection. As he is maker and collector of historical keyboards. We just wish to be included also in Nord library. It sounds somewhere between clavecin, harpsichord and fortepiano. And that recomended CD by Alexei Lubimov is quite enjoying. Very strange and rare sound. Very BEAUTIFUL sound. I bought the record in Bratislava/Slovakia