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TIL about this 19-foot grand piano with the longest bass strings in the world – and it sounds huge (www.classicfm.com)
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[–] geography082@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

Because the bass strings vibrate too much and overlaps and even distort the sound of the other strings. I was waiting each time the interpreter will hit the bass keys. And there is a tiny momentum on his way of playing for that particular moment to show the piano particularities.