This is such a good description. Makes me understand why I like playing with the pedal down first before the note, so often, like you explained at 7:08 !
This is amazing! We as humans can also influence other people through Sympathetic Resonance depending on what type of energetic vibration are we emanating. (Positive or Negative).
Really nice way to explain the topic. Apart from the piano sustain, your voice has this perfect tone that instantly hit me. I could listen to you all day. where do i sign up.
That's really kind-thank you! A comprehensive course is available at www.key-notes.com - there are monthly, yearly, and lifetime membership options available, as well as many free resources for learning piano. Hope this helps!
Hello Mr. Frantz, thanks for creating this video, I thoroughly enjoyed watching and listening. I wholeheartedly appreciate your calming tone, your euphonious voice and the superb sound clarity made me easily distinguish the subtle effects. *DUN* *DUN* *DUN* *DUN!* • I have three questions, if I may, I’m a critical thinker by compulsion so please don’t take it personally. My goal is to share my thoughts with you not in any way undermine yours. I sincerely apologise in advance for my sharp tone and forward approach. 1. You wrote in the description “An acoustic phenomenon that helps make a piano sound beautiful.” What makes a piano sound not so beautiful? [Please be specific] 2. Is Resonance a concept that can be easily understood in a few minutes one-sided video? Yes/No 3. 7:33 “it’s actually more complicated than that I won’t get into the physics of strings…” more complicated to whom exactly? For you or your targeted audience? *PIANISSIMO* I usually don’t like the perspective from above ‘cause I value the grand piano - as an instrument - more than my skills as a classically-trained pianist since I was 6. What makes yours aesthetically pleasing is how the screen is elegantly split in half between you and your majestic Bösendorfer showing all keys - not just hands on a digital keyboard as the trend here - this level of respect puts me at ease. I’m so grateful to be a new subscriber. I look forward to hearing from you, thanks for taking the time to read my comment, Salute ;* R.A.A
Thanks for your very kind comments! I’ll try to address your questions. 1. Admittedly beauty is by definition subjective, though a singing tone at the piano (imitating singers) tends to be valued when playing a lot of classical music. A harsh, aggressive tone tends to be disliked. Some people are more sensitive to tone than others. 2. I tried my best to explain sympathetic resonance in a few minutes here, so I hope this made it understandable! 3. I did briefly mention the factors of string length, thickness and tautness that all play a role in determining which strings vibrate in sympathy with any given note. In essence, the strings with frequencies that are even multiples of the frequency of the note played, and to a lesser extent their overtones, vibrate in sympathy. Thanks so much for your kind words about the video perspective! I did put a lot of effort and lots of trial and error into getting it hopefully right.
String resonance is all the frequencies that resonate with a particular string (fundamental and overtones); sympathetic resonance is all the other strings that vibrate in sympathy with another string. Hope this helps!
Great presentation. Though... it's distracting being told what you are not going to get into. These are points you went off road and tried to recover. Minimize the error(the best you can) and have a progressively powerful impact. Well done!
Thanks for this, Albert. I was wondering if there is a term for the transient part of a sound, such as a piano, drum or any percussive instrument. This percussive sound contains nearly all frequencies for a short moment at the begging of the sound. Is there a term for this?
This is called the "attack" of a note or instrument, although it's not exclusive to percussion instruments. Some instruments, such as strings or winds, have a slow attack, while percussion instruments have a fast attack. If there's another term, maybe someone out there can enlighten us?
@@key-notes Thanks for responding so quickly. I'm looking for a more specific definition for the frequency content itself if it exists. A comparison would be how the resonating sound of a piano note is called the "sustain" but more specifically the frequency content is known as the fundamental and harmonics. But it seems there are no organized tones in the attack portion of a percussion instrument. I'm aiming to synthesize the attack portion of a vibraphone, which contains what sounds like noise from the structure of the instrument, not directly from the key. So I'm hoping there is some term I can use to more quickly find the best method for this.
@@EricPeelMusic Besides the attack of the note, only “noise” comes to mind since noise lacks harmonic content. Maybe there’s someone reading this who knows if there’s any specific term for this?
@@key-notes The frequency content of this noise seems to relate to the following harmonic content in some way, but it's difficult to come up with some kind of convincing pattern that works throughout the range of the instrument. I actually thought this noise was called sympathetic resonance because the hitting of the key causes the instrument itself to react and create the noise, which is why I came here. I'll try some different things and I might come back here. Thanks, Albert.
There are attempts to simulate sympathetic resonance to varying degrees of success, though I've yet to hear any simulation that approaches the real thing. With some sample libraries, it's not even possible to press a key silently, so this wouldn't work even if the simulation were perfect.
@@FuZhixiang True, they've been around for years now, though for me there's still a gigantic gap between playing even the best sampled pianos on the best controller keyboards and playing a real concert grand. Sympathetic resonance is one of many factors in this gap. To me it's equivalent to the difference between playing a racing video game vs. the real thing. The simulations are good and the technology is impressive, but they still only offer a small fraction of the real experience.
I find it fascinatiing to think of how music ties to the way we feel since feelings vibrate at a frequency as well as do thoughts.
This is such a good description. Makes me understand why I like playing with the pedal down first before the note, so often, like you explained at 7:08 !
This is amazing! We as humans can also influence other people through Sympathetic Resonance depending on what type of energetic vibration are we emanating. (Positive or Negative).
Yes and if anyone in their life had this concept long enough to test know that it is very possible
Really nice way to explain the topic. Apart from the piano sustain, your voice has this perfect tone that instantly hit me. I could listen to you all day. where do i sign up.
That's really kind-thank you! A comprehensive course is available at www.key-notes.com - there are monthly, yearly, and lifetime membership options available, as well as many free resources for learning piano. Hope this helps!
In other words, Albert's voice tone has a sympathetic resonance with your speakers. Ha!
Thank you. Never knew. I was coming here from the progressive metal album Sympathetic Resonance from Arch / Matheos.
I had no idea this is also the title of a heavy metal album!
My acoustic Guitar in It,s Stand resonates when playing my keyboard. "Harmonically related" is a better Term than Compatible.
Thank you, Bill! Yes, "harmonically related" is definitely a better term.
Hello Mr. Frantz, thanks for creating this video, I thoroughly enjoyed watching and listening. I wholeheartedly appreciate your calming tone, your euphonious voice and the superb sound clarity made me easily distinguish the subtle effects.
*DUN* *DUN* *DUN* *DUN!*
• I have three questions, if I may, I’m a critical thinker by compulsion so please don’t take it personally. My goal is to share my thoughts with you not in any way undermine yours. I sincerely apologise in advance for my sharp tone and forward approach.
1. You wrote in the description “An acoustic phenomenon that helps make a piano sound beautiful.”
What makes a piano sound not so beautiful? [Please be specific]
2. Is Resonance a concept that can be easily understood in a few minutes one-sided video? Yes/No
3. 7:33 “it’s actually more complicated than that I won’t get into the physics of strings…” more complicated to whom exactly? For you or your targeted audience?
*PIANISSIMO*
I usually don’t like the perspective from above ‘cause I value the grand piano - as an instrument - more than my skills as a classically-trained pianist since I was 6. What makes yours aesthetically pleasing is how the screen is elegantly split in half between you and your majestic Bösendorfer showing all keys - not just hands on a digital keyboard as the trend here - this level of respect puts me at ease. I’m so grateful to be a new subscriber.
I look forward to hearing from you, thanks for taking the time to read my comment, Salute ;*
R.A.A
Thanks for your very kind comments! I’ll try to address your questions. 1. Admittedly beauty is by definition subjective, though a singing tone at the piano (imitating singers) tends to be valued when playing a lot of classical music. A harsh, aggressive tone tends to be disliked. Some people are more sensitive to tone than others.
2. I tried my best to explain sympathetic resonance in a few minutes here, so I hope this made it understandable!
3. I did briefly mention the factors of string length, thickness and tautness that all play a role in determining which strings vibrate in sympathy with any given note. In essence, the strings with frequencies that are even multiples of the frequency of the note played, and to a lesser extent their overtones, vibrate in sympathy.
Thanks so much for your kind words about the video perspective! I did put a lot of effort and lots of trial and error into getting it hopefully right.
Lol
@@key-notes
New subscriber, I really enjoyed your explanation. Cheers
Thank you so much! 🙏
Very informative. Thanks
What is the difference between string resonance vs sympathetic resonance?
String resonance is all the frequencies that resonate with a particular string (fundamental and overtones); sympathetic resonance is all the other strings that vibrate in sympathy with another string. Hope this helps!
Why is this video so underrated!!
Does anybody else hear a B5 overtone at 3:50?
woww, thank you!
0:43 Could you make a video showing how to take this angle? how do you position the camera?
Great presentation. Though... it's distracting being told what you are not going to get into. These are points you went off road and tried to recover.
Minimize the error(the best you can) and have a progressively powerful impact.
Well done!
Thanks for this, Albert. I was wondering if there is a term for the transient part of a sound, such as a piano, drum or any percussive instrument. This percussive sound contains nearly all frequencies for a short moment at the begging of the sound. Is there a term for this?
This is called the "attack" of a note or instrument, although it's not exclusive to percussion instruments. Some instruments, such as strings or winds, have a slow attack, while percussion instruments have a fast attack. If there's another term, maybe someone out there can enlighten us?
@@key-notes Thanks for responding so quickly.
I'm looking for a more specific definition for the frequency content itself if it exists. A comparison would be how the resonating sound of a piano note is called the "sustain" but more specifically the frequency content is known as the fundamental and harmonics.
But it seems there are no organized tones in the attack portion of a percussion instrument.
I'm aiming to synthesize the attack portion of a vibraphone, which contains what sounds like noise from the structure of the instrument, not directly from the key. So I'm hoping there is some term I can use to more quickly find the best method for this.
@@EricPeelMusic Besides the attack of the note, only “noise” comes to mind since noise lacks harmonic content. Maybe there’s someone reading this who knows if there’s any specific term for this?
@@key-notes The frequency content of this noise seems to relate to the following harmonic content in some way, but it's difficult to come up with some kind of convincing pattern that works throughout the range of the instrument. I actually thought this noise was called sympathetic resonance because the hitting of the key causes the instrument itself to react and create the noise, which is why I came here. I'll try some different things and I might come back here. Thanks, Albert.
@@EricPeelMusic Please do let us know if you find a term for this! You’ve made me curious.
Just curious, do you know if this'll work on an electric keyboard. Like does the electric piano (A quite good one, Yamaha,) do these things too?
There are attempts to simulate sympathetic resonance to varying degrees of success, though I've yet to hear any simulation that approaches the real thing. With some sample libraries, it's not even possible to press a key silently, so this wouldn't work even if the simulation were perfect.
@@key-notes Oh okay. Thank you very much :)
Yes. Roland some new synthesizers and pianos do simulate such behavior.
@@FuZhixiang True, they've been around for years now, though for me there's still a gigantic gap between playing even the best sampled pianos on the best controller keyboards and playing a real concert grand. Sympathetic resonance is one of many factors in this gap. To me it's equivalent to the difference between playing a racing video game vs. the real thing. The simulations are good and the technology is impressive, but they still only offer a small fraction of the real experience.