Shadowing Practice: HOW IT WORKS - Grand Piano - Learn English Speaking with Video

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It's big, it's beautiful, it's a grand piano and each one of these majestic instruments is exquisitely handcrafted.
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The main difference from a standard upright piano is
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that in a grand the strings are longer and have to be arranged horizontally.
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The sound is produced by a felt hammer hitting up to three strings at once.
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The thicker and longer the strings are the lower the note.
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Each string begins life as a single steel wire attached to a spinning machine.
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One of the workers scuffs up the surface with sandpaper so
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when a copper wire is wrapped
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around it'll stay in
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place he adds another wire
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to the string to give it a deeper bass note the
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strings for a grand piano range in length from just five centimeters to over two meters.
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That's what allows them to produce an incredibly wide range of notes.
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Finally, he tightens the end of the wire to stop it from uncoiling.
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They have to use layers of flexible wood for the piano's casing, so they'll be able to bend it into the traditional shape.
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They're glued together and then squashed in a press until the adhesives dry.
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Then it's taken over to another press which will give it its shape.
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It's a tough job to get it into position and requires a bit of muscle and a lot of teamwork.
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When the strings are fixed, they'll have a combined tension of 24 tons, so the metal frame needs to be a super tough structure.
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It's made of precision cast iron, in a technique that was developed in the early 19th century.
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A cocktail of bronze powder, dissolver and thickener is sprayed onto the metal surface to fill any pores and give the frame a smooth finish.
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The metal frame weighs about 170 kilograms and has to be lifted into the wooden casing with a pulley.
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Then it's time to fix the strings, all 240 of them.
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Low notes have just got one string but the middle and higher notes have two or three to make them louder.
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They're called bichords and trichords.
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Each individual string has to be stressed until it reaches the exact pitch.
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Finally, they check the strings with a felt hammer.
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The hammer is controlled by a mechanism that enables a series of notes to be played consecutively at high speed.
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The workings of the piano are now complete, but before it can be fitted into the casing, an expert must check that all the hammers reach the same keystroke height,
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so they produce an even sound.
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A key has to drop under a weight of 52 grams, and they all have to be tested one by one.
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Who said the music industry was glamorous?
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All that remains is the final assembly.
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Every individual grand piano is handcrafted to the highest standards.
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That's why this factory builds, on average, just one a day.
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les

Deze video bevat 36 zinnen en 484 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 4:42. De spreker praat langzaam, ongeveer 103 woorden per minuut, zodat je tijd hebt om elke klank na te doen. Slechts 76% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden, dus de woordenschat is pittig.

Belangrijke woorden in deze video

15 woorden uit de video die het leren waard zijn, met uitspraak en betekenis:

WoordUitspraakBetekenis
string zelfstandig naamwoord/stɹɪŋ/draad, koord
piano zelfstandig naamwoord/piˈænɪː/piano
wire zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈwaɪɚ/draad
hammer zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈhæmɚ/hamer
technique zelfstandig naamwoord/tɛkˈniːk/techniek
thick bijvoeglijk naamwoord/θɪk/dik, dikke
muscle zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈmʌs.əl/spier
pitch zelfstandig naamwoord/pɪt͡ʃ/worp
worker zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈwɝ.kɚ/arbeider, arbeidster
layer zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈleɪ̯ɚ/laag
smooth bijvoeglijk naamwoord/smuːð/vlot
spin werkwoord/spɪn/draaien
wooden bijvoeglijk naamwoord/ˈwʊdn̩/houten
enable werkwoord/ɪˈneɪ.bəl/inschakelen, in staat stellen
ton zelfstandig naamwoord/tʌn/ton

Uitspraak om op te letten

De spreker gebruikt 6 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals they'll, they're, it'll. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.

  • De “th”-klanken: thick /θɪk/, smooth /smuːð/
  • De klanken “sh” en “zh”: tension /ˈtɛnʃən/, precision /pɹɪˈsɪʒ.ən/, squash /skwɔʃ/
  • Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: incredibly /ɪŋˈkɹɛdɪbli/, mechanism /ˈmɛk.ə.nɪ.zəm/

Zo oefen je met deze video

  1. Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
  2. Spreek zin voor zin na op normale snelheid en herhaal elke zin tot je ritme gelijk is aan dat van de spreker.
  3. Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als string, piano, wire.

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