143. The Piano Mill Wins Award (12-Dec-2018)
The Piano Mill has just received the Completed Building—Culture 2018 award at the World Architecture Festival… (more)
The 2018 piano awards from Musical Merchandise Review and Music Inc. magazines… (more)
A magnificent new instrument from Fazioli designed by the renowned Japanese architect… (more)
The new piano marries the acoustic excellence of the K-300 upright with the technology of Kawai’s CA digital pianos… (more)
Is the John Lewis Christmas advert unwittingly be the single most important ad for the piano ever?… (more)
10 years photographing abandoned pianos in decaying buildings. Now a haunting new book… (more)
A magnificent new instrument from Fazioli designed by the renowned Japanese architect… (more)
An exquisite example of the neo-classical art-case piano from the French piano maker is up for auction… (more)
A new Steinway grand piano, produced in partnership with the Elbphilharmonie (Hamburg’s new cultural centre)… (more)
A new publication from Larry Fine featuring articles on buying and maintaining all types of piano… (more)
A new digital piano range from Roland… (more)
A look at one of the great concert grands, now physically modelled by French software house Modartt… (more)
Stuart & Sons produce the first acoustic piano to boast a nine octave keyboard—that’s 108 keys!… (more)
130 years ago, the sound of an acoustic piano was recorded for the very first time… (more)
Cremona Musica is widely considered to be the largest marketplace in the world for fine quality pianos… (more)
The Magnetic Resonator Piano makes its movie debut in Disney’s new film “Christopher Robin”… (more)
Euro Pianos Naples recently introduced the Echo, a mid-century modern upright piano… (more)
Yamaha’s P-121, is possibly the lightest, most affordable, weighted-key, quality digital piano on the market… (more)
Software house Sampleson have just released a free plugin of the Hohner Electra Piano T… (more)
The “moving” story of one man’s mission to deliver a piano to a remote school 14,000ft up in the Himalayan mountains…. (more)
The hybrid piano commissioned by Prince for his “Piano & A Microphone Tour” has just been sold… (more)
This book is the first comprehensive study of the life and work of the great musical instrument maker. … (more)
The latest piano to receive the Pianoteq physical modelling treatment is the celebrated Steingraeber & Söhne E-272… (more)
Yamaha unveil the P-515, which will become the flagship instrument in their P-Series of digital pianos… (more)
Bartolomeo Cristofori’s 1720 piano, takes centre stage in a new exhibition “The Art of Music through Time” at The Met, NYC… (more)
117. Sing For Hope Pianos (19-Jun-2018)
The “Sing for Hope Pianos” project placed 50 highly decorated pianos around New York… (more)
“Chopin’s Piano” tells how a humble pianino became one of the most important and sought-after instruments ever… (more)
The auction raised over US$1.1million, but should this important collection have been broken up?.. (more)
The Alexander piano was built by Adrian Mann in New Zealand in 2009. Now he wants to build a new piano… (more)
The story of a piano, saved by Ryuchi Sakamoto, that survived the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake… (more)
How international piano competitions are changing, thanks to streaming technology… (more)
Norman Rockwell’s painting capturing the world of the piano tuner is to be sold at auction this month. Estimated price: $3-5million… (more)
A haunting new collection of photographs featuring old pianos decaying in equally dilapidated surroundings… (more)
More events celebrating Thomas Broadwood’s gift of a grand piano to Ludwig Van Beethoven… (more)
The sale of the Colt Clavier Collection will be the biggest sale of historic keyboard instruments ever… (more)
This digital piano is a modern design classic, and is now featured in New York’s Museum of Modern Art’s (MoMA) Design store… (more)
A look at some of the new instruments unveiled at this year’s Frankfurt show… (more)
Find how this rather unusual custom first started, and why it continues across the world… (more)
Clavia unveil the Nord Piano 4, the latest iteration of their award-winning Piano Series… (more)
Plans are afoot to build a 100 seater amphitheatre constructed entirely from unwanted pianos… (more)
A groundbreaking project that took an ordinary Brazilian upright piano to over 30 remote riverside communities… (more)
How do new regulations affect the ownership and sale of pianos with ivory keys?… (more)
The Teague Sketch 1111 is Steinway’s latest addition to their Limited Editions Catalogue… (more)
This is an annual worldwide music festival with the aim of promoting, and celebrating the piano… (more)
David Klavins unveils the world’s largest upright piano – the 4.5 metre tall Klavins Model 450… (more)
Christies are to auction Carole King’s personal piano in The Exceptional Sale to be held in New York on April 20, 2018… (more)
A look at the history of the piano shaped pool, prompted by a house in Houston, Texas, with just such a pool coming onto the market… (more)
Just released: a new documentary film about the famous piano makers, C. Bechstein. Piano lovers of all allegiances will find much to enjoy here… (more)
The Arts and Crafts styled Manxman denoted a major new design for the upright piano. It first appeared at the end of the 19th century.. (more)
The Disklavier ENSPIRE PRO system is now available for Yamaha’s SX and Bösendorfer’s VC grand pianos… (more)
The Steinway Sunburst is a new limited edition piano incorporating the classic three-colour design famously found on many Fender and Gibson guitars… (more)
Kurzweil introduce their entry-level SP1 Stage Piano at 2018’s Winter NAMM show at Anaheim, California… (more)
Have you ever tried to find a holiday property with a piano? We put our campaigning hat on, and tackle Airbnb’s listings… (more)
The Winter NAMM Show has finished, and we take a look at the new digital pianos that were announced at this year’s event… (more)
Korg will unveil the new D1 digital stage piano. The compact nature of the instrument belies its natural sound quality and feel.. (more)
As atrocious weather hits some parts of the northern hemisphere, we look at a few ways to keep both you and your piano in good condition… (more)
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