Honky Tonk Train By Meade “Lux” Lewis
Cameron Fallaw (the piano player) describing his piano
I’ve been asked a lot about my piano so I’ll write about it here.
It’s an old (about 100 or something) Bluthner “upright grand” as they used to call it. It was called this because basically it was a grand piano (baby grand I would think with a modified frame) turned upright. This gives it a beautiful rich, full-bodied bass and treble (although you can’t really appreciate it in my videos because of the recording quality).
It also has an unusual “over-damper” system (where the dampers are above the hammers), whereas almost all other pianos are under-damper (dampers under hammers). This over-damper system is the reason why you can see all those wires in front of the hammers in my videos
I like this video for the music obviously and for the fact that it’s shot directly overhead so that every part of the action is visible, nothing obscured. Great for anyone that wants to learn!