Trevor Stephenson

Trevor Stephenson

Harpsichordist and pianist Trevor Stephenson plays historical keyboard instruments. Includes lecture-demonstrations about tuning and interpretation.

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  • @jimbo2629
    @jimbo262921 күн бұрын

    My favourite Scarlatti sonata.

  • @williamwhippleneely
    @williamwhippleneely25 күн бұрын

    It is quite lovely to hear you playing after so long!

  • @themukhtalef
    @themukhtalefАй бұрын

    ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @gerardvila4685
    @gerardvila46852 ай бұрын

    Very nice, well sung and played, but I'd like to know who made the fortepiano, based on whose original instrument of what period.

  • @babygorilla4233
    @babygorilla4233 Жыл бұрын

    Huh so you're turning the screw(thus pitch) to precisely where it needs to be relative to the other notes. As a machinist I find that kinda familiar. Because for manual milling your moving on objects around and into a cutter. To do this your table is on screws and you rotate a handle till it's just precisely where it needs to be relative to the other features or datums you've established. The way you handle the tool is the same too.

  • @mduftube
    @mduftube Жыл бұрын

    I learned so much from this tutorial! Thanks for sharing!

  • @matthiaswilhelm9813
    @matthiaswilhelm9813 Жыл бұрын

    The little Bach,my stressig Undertaker for His Cent Fuck Equal.5 Years Alcatraz.Your Video ist very good and. TOP😸👍💖💖💖💞🎅💒

  • @geoffryllewellyn7693
    @geoffryllewellyn7693 Жыл бұрын

    Cowkeepers song, used to be used at the end of BBC's Listen With Mother , takes me back 65 years !

  • @diegoalemiguel6271
    @diegoalemiguel6271 Жыл бұрын

    awesome instructive thanks!

  • @amezcuaist
    @amezcuaist2 жыл бұрын

    Ehh--Why is the demonstration of historical tunings always the C major key with no sharps or flats ? I need a suspicious smiley here .

  • @amezcuaist
    @amezcuaist2 жыл бұрын

    I used a Carey Beebe formula for one historical temperament Kirnberger 3 . His method is to tune the intervals like 5ths but not using beats for counting .Most of his intervals are simply clean ,which is less complicated for a novice . It worked better than my Korg orchestral tuner . One naughty idea I have lurking is "If Bach wanted to show any key can sound good why did he use sharps and flats or even double sharps .Was he cheating?" A silly nonsense question for light amusement only .

  • @jacobsmithjr
    @jacobsmithjr2 жыл бұрын

    I'm just now learning about tuning. Is this a single-string piano? I was under the impression that the middle section of the piano has 3 strings for each pitch which would mean you have to get all 3 strings in tune for each note.

  • @mallorga1965
    @mallorga19652 жыл бұрын

    One of the best hours I've spent on KZread. Thanks a lot!

  • @unequally-tempered
    @unequally-tempered2 жыл бұрын

    Utterly devine. Your recording precedes a concert for which I tuned kzread.info/dash/bejne/aX56lbuzhKqdnLg.html by some months but I hadn't heard this one at the time. It's very lovely. Are you using the 5th comma temperament?

  • @walterdefreitas8817
    @walterdefreitas88172 жыл бұрын

    🙏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏Very beautiful 👏👏👏👏 perfect and beautiful harpsichord🙏

  • @matthewhuang9588
    @matthewhuang95883 жыл бұрын

    This always sounds so.much better in well tempered tuning than equal temperament

  • @luislute
    @luislute3 жыл бұрын

    Superb sound, much better than the modern piano. A sound so rich and with character.

  • @TheJoe13088
    @TheJoe130883 жыл бұрын

    The overall intimacy and brief moment of uplift reminds me of the move to C major in "Für Elise."

  • @careerdetective
    @careerdetective3 жыл бұрын

    Very interesting. Well explained!

  • @mad_haven
    @mad_haven3 жыл бұрын

    is there a big difference if you play the same song in a different intonation? I've never really listened to the medieval intonations so . . .

  • @aronhidman1
    @aronhidman13 жыл бұрын

    I'm not sure it's enough to only check major chords though. An F sharp flat 13 flat 9 would probably not sound very good in this tuning :)

  • @jonathanpope81
    @jonathanpope813 жыл бұрын

    thanks

  • @correasilvio2010
    @correasilvio20103 жыл бұрын

    I love Your Channel! My Chopin Nocturne's interpretation kzread.info/dash/bejne/rJynxsqpirjSeNo.html

  • @justinniederhauser1543
    @justinniederhauser15433 жыл бұрын

    I play synthesizers, and there is constant intonation that has to be done to get the correct sound for the music being played. It has helped tremendously with my piano tuning skills, but where piano is different is the the tuning of each individual note in relation to its neighboring notes. I usually ask my clients which key they prefer to play in, and what style they enjoy the most, or even ask them to play an original. Then I will tune to their needs, and compromise some beats in the unused pentatonic scale, but ensure those notes are still relatable. typically people like the key of C, so all the black keys will be adjusted to allow for a really tasty key of C. What ends up happening, is that no mater what the Key is, the piano will return a very original color for that key. For my piano, it gives me many more options stylistically when writing music, and my clients love the sound too. Best advice is that once you understand the rules of thumb, dont be afraid to break them! better to really feel out the piano itself, the room it sits in, and their generated overtones. As a pipe organ player once told me, the whole room is the instrument!

  • @correasilvio2010
    @correasilvio20103 жыл бұрын

    My Two Nocturnes interpretation kzread.info/dash/bejne/rJynxsqpirjSeNo.html

  • @orlandogonzalez5446
    @orlandogonzalez54463 жыл бұрын

    Excellent tutorial. Thank you.

  • @correasilvio2010
    @correasilvio20103 жыл бұрын

    My interpretation Chopin kzread.info/dash/bejne/rJynxsqpirjSeNo.html

  • @corgish
    @corgish4 жыл бұрын

    changed playback speed to 0.75 - else too fast!

  • @militaryandemergencyservic3286
    @militaryandemergencyservic32864 жыл бұрын

    great. Dont hear any difference re the tunng. Heres [email protected]/dash/bejne/lXaamZucYqbQmJM.html

  • @dimattosdarabeca
    @dimattosdarabeca4 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for sharing. Congratulations.

  • @reflecting6189
    @reflecting61894 жыл бұрын

    Trevor makes me want to become a piano tuner

  • @reflecting6189
    @reflecting61894 жыл бұрын

    could be my favorite video ive seen on youtube in the realm of music, and I've seen a lot of them. Great skill and very nice guy

  • @fraserwing8744
    @fraserwing87444 жыл бұрын

    Fantastic

  • @bikkies
    @bikkies4 жыл бұрын

    Nicely interpreted and a sweet tone to the instrument. All too often this sarabande seems to be played in an almost funeral style. It's nice to hear it moving along more delicately yet expressively, with perfectly executed ornamentation.

  • @susanMarkle
    @susanMarkle4 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for your support. I'm supporting you. New friend. I watched all this video.

  • @Bojanmarsetic
    @Bojanmarsetic4 жыл бұрын

    midday sun

  • @Bojanmarsetic
    @Bojanmarsetic4 жыл бұрын

    Now I know why a vast majority of music today has a kind of -pushy- feel with all those silly major thirds instead of being harmonious and sweet calm.

  • @atlantargh
    @atlantargh5 жыл бұрын

    excellent; I found this more informative than the videos using midi examples.

  • @eduardomanrique400
    @eduardomanrique4005 жыл бұрын

    This is beyond incredible, I cannot thank you enough for this.

  • @ivanfrangugic8355
    @ivanfrangugic83555 жыл бұрын

    is it true that you can not never tune the piano i watched the video on another channell? i know that it will never be perfect but is it realy true that the piano can not be in tune?

  • @kennethray8473
    @kennethray84734 жыл бұрын

    You can't tune all intervals pure or without beats. You can make one key pure, but the rest suffer as a result. All temperaments, including this one, are a sort of compromise between keys.

  • @mikestevens8012
    @mikestevens80125 жыл бұрын

    More , bravo

  • @arturdawidlukawski
    @arturdawidlukawski5 жыл бұрын

    Hey guys! If you like Chopin's Prelude E minor, please check out my performance and gimme a like :-) kzread.info/dash/bejne/eYyhybiDc7iwnto.html

  • @ChopinIsMyBestFriend
    @ChopinIsMyBestFriend5 жыл бұрын

    wonderful, after learning of tunings such as the Thomas Young Temperament, i really feel duped playing 18th-19th century music. I am annoyed. not only that but even at ET, the standardized pitch of 440 Hz sounds godawful compared to 432 Hz. (which i can switch between on my Yahama DGX-660 Digital Piano.)

  • @filippodenicolo4279
    @filippodenicolo42795 жыл бұрын

    Troppo veloce

  • @joschpz4715
    @joschpz47155 жыл бұрын

    i would say he's suing background music couse thats the sound of a big fortepiano and the instrument hes plying looks more like a harpsichord

  • @Ekvitarius
    @Ekvitarius5 жыл бұрын

    Nope. That’s a piano he’s playing.

  • @craigw1000
    @craigw10002 жыл бұрын

    No to both. That Trevor's fortepiano, and it's most likely Well-Tempered rather than Equal Tempered like pianos are today.

  • @joschpz4715
    @joschpz47155 жыл бұрын

    it sounds to good to be that small

  • @jimwells3279
    @jimwells32795 жыл бұрын

    I've never heard a harpsichord that sounded so beautiful. Don't most of them have pluckers of metal not quills? Maybe that's the difference.

  • @goodandplenty508
    @goodandplenty5085 жыл бұрын

    Trevor, that was a very informative demonstration. Thank you. I have a question. I read somewhere years ago that virtually all musical compositions were in the keys of C, E or G in the classical period. The reason they say is because well tempered temperament had its limitations so composers steered clear of these keys. When equal temperament came about, suddenly works could be composed in the other keys ( i. e.. A, B, D,F). Is this why equal temperament came to be standard we have today? If not, why did we feel the need to go the route of equal temperament? As they say, if it isn't broke, don't fix it.

  • @correasilvio2010
    @correasilvio20103 жыл бұрын

    My Two Chopin Nocturnes interpretation kzread.info/dash/bejne/rJynxsqpirjSeNo.html

  • @ThingsAboutMusic
    @ThingsAboutMusic5 жыл бұрын

    Thanks, very nice playing and great location. need disclaimer "No Crows were hurt during the making of this video"

  • @BatEatsMoth
    @BatEatsMoth5 жыл бұрын

    Mathematically, tuning lower than A440 decreases the tempering of the intervals if you're tuning ET; I've read that it works the same for WT and meantone. Have you noticed this when tuning an instrument to 430 Hz? I read somewhere that the ideal for meantone is A424; or maybe it was WT. I just know that they're both very low by modern standards. I know that the people who worked out the math for all these temperaments also worked out the base frequency you needed to make them as close to pure as possible. For ET, it's 430 Hz.

  • @dibaldgyfm9933
    @dibaldgyfm99335 жыл бұрын

    In my youth some people used to name the harpsichord (or cembalo) a nail-box, because the sound was metallic - but when Trevor plays it sounds more singing; he mentions how much care (and time) it takes to maintain that sound, cutting quill to fit as he wants them. However, when playing the C major Fuga I honestly think a piano would be more appropriate (and much more difficult: The piano is touch sensitive, the harpsichord is not).

  • @derya7603
    @derya76036 жыл бұрын

    my god what a beautiful sounding piano, and great tuning

  • @correasilvio2010
    @correasilvio20103 жыл бұрын

    Excelent Channel! My Chopin Nocturne's interpretation kzread.info/dash/bejne/rJynxsqpirjSeNo.html