{"id":340144,"date":"2019-01-29T12:59:03","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T11:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/?p=340144"},"modified":"2019-04-23T09:16:45","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T07:16:45","slug":"bsb-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/en\/inspire\/bsb-houston\/","title":{"rendered":"Brunettes Shoot Blondes – Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"

#ThePowerOfMusic<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The band Brunettes Shoot Blondes<\/strong> had a great idea: to modify a piano<\/strong> from the 19th century. One piano was transformed into a machine that accommodates 20 different instruments<\/strong>. You might already be asking yourself many questions: What does it look like? How does it sound? How do players operate this monster?<\/p>\n

You’ll find the answers in the video <\/strong>for their song “Houston” <\/strong>below. We’re sure you’ll be amazed…<\/p>\n

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MAKING OF<\/h3>\n

Below is a short description<\/strong> of how they built their super-instrument<\/strong>, from the words of\u00a0Andrew Kovaliov\u00a0<\/strong>(musician, songwriter, music video director, concept creator)…<\/span><\/p>\n

We got lucky to find this 19<\/strong><\/span>th<\/sup><\/span><\/strong> century grand piano<\/strong> in a small town in the Western Ukraine.<\/strong> It appeared to have been out of use for a long time. The funny thing was, just bringing it to Kiev, along with its transportation<\/strong> within the city, ended up costing almost as much as the instrument itself.<\/span><\/p>\n

The best thing about this vintage piano, was the body construction.<\/strong> None of us knew much about the difference between the old and new models so it was simply a matter of luck that we stumbled upon this one. Most modern pianos<\/strong> have cross-shaped string-holders,<\/strong> leaving a comparatively small place for anything else to be put in between. In our case the piano\u2019s body had only two parallel cast-iron barriers<\/strong> with some thin wood<\/strong> and a lot of free space<\/strong>, in case you needed to get rid of the strings.<\/span><\/p>\n

This eventually brought us to the idea of dividing the piano roll into three sections:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. Central<\/strong> section. The actual piano<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Left<\/strong> section. Violas, Cello, Organ, Xylophone<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Right<\/strong> section. Percussion<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The instrument organization<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

    The central section<\/i><\/b> hasn\u2019t changed much except a few strings in the lower part which had to be replaced. Since only the middle register strings were saved, we had no bass tones. The only solution to keep some low sounds was to replace the first piano section octave with some bass strings<\/strong>. Also, the sustain pedal<\/strong> moved to the left leaving some extra space for somebody who would sit to the right.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\t\t