Florida-based Euro Pianos Naples have recently introduced the Echo, a mid-century modern upright piano, inspired by the classic Danish modern styled version of the Baldwin Acrosonic spinet piano. The Echo is designed by Euro Pianos’… Read more »
The South China Morning Post has reported that a state-owned Chinese firm may soon make an offer for Steinway Musical Instruments, Inc., the parent company of Steinway & Sons. Steinway is currently controlled by US hedge… Read more »
Yamaha has just launched the P-121 portable digital piano, the first of their P-Series to feature a smaller, 6-octave keyboard. This follows the unveiling, at this year’s summer NAMM show, of the P-515 their new “top-of-this-range”… Read more »
Software house Sampleson have just released a free (donations welcome) virtual recreation of the Hohner Electra Piano T. Entitled “Electrix”, it comes as both a VST and AU plugin—a standalone version is also available. This… Read more »
Piano to Zanskar is a somewhat unusual feature-length documentary. It has just premiered at the 2018 Edinburgh Film Festival, and tells the story of an unlikely mission to transport a piano from North London’s Camden… Read more »
Back in 2016 music-legend Prince commissioned ALPHA Pianos to build a special edition of their ALPHA Grand. This was to be used on the final European leg of the Piano & A Microphone Tour. Yamaha… Read more »
Last month we ran a piece on the new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, entitled The Art of Music Through Time. This features the oldest surviving piano — Bartolomeo Cristofori’s 1720 “gravicembalo col… Read more »
If you are exclusively an acoustic pianist, do read this. It may just whet your appetite… Modartt is a French technology company specialising in products with artistic applications. Their best known product is the Pianoteq… Read more »
The 2018 Summer NAMM show takes place every year at the end of June. This is the Winter NAMM show’s little brother – smaller but still an important event in the musical instrument calendar. The… Read more »
Bartolomeo Cristofori, of Padua, Italy, is undisputedly credited with being the inventor of the piano. But he was actually striving to produce the first harpsichord to offer a touch responsive keyboard. Pressing a harpsichord’s key… Read more »