
Early Piano Actions and The Oeser
The Oeser is a new virtual piano from the Dutch software house Key Instruments (part of Key Productions). It is also their first virtual piano. Key Productions (the parent company)… Read more »
The Oeser is a new virtual piano from the Dutch software house Key Instruments (part of Key Productions). It is also their first virtual piano. Key Productions (the parent company)… Read more »
In case you haven’t seen it yet, please check out this remarkable YouTube video from Mark Rober (below). And don’t be put off by the rather sensational cover image, there’s… Read more »
The “Million Dollar Quartet Piano” is a vintage 1949 Wurlitzer spinet. It was the house piano at the Sun Records studio in Memphis Tennessee and is now being sold by… Read more »
In 1821 Sébastien Érard patented a new piano action – the “double escapement”. The importance of this development cannot be overstated. It was the birth of the modern grand piano… Read more »
Yamaha recently added two new models, the YC88 and YC73 to its YC Series of instruments. This range of stage keyboards is targeted at the gigging musician. The YC88, with… Read more »
Canada’s National Music Centre (NMC) has launched a new series of short videos as part of the NMC Learning at Home program. So far 16 episodes have been released, four… Read more »
In response to the continuing concerns relating to the coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak, the Piano Technicians Guild has compiled the following advisory. Hopefully, you will find it helpful. Our thanks to… Read more »
On April 3rd, 2018 the UK Government confirmed that it would introduce a strict ban on ivory sales. The new laws will be amongst the toughest in the world. The… Read more »
I was recently looking through various piano auction listings and came across a Dolceola. The name rang a bell, but for the life of me I couldn’t remember much about… Read more »
News has reached us of the latest version of the Arpeggio Piano Player. Labelled a “SuperDroid” and originally launched in 2015, this is the brainchild of Majestic Pianoworks’ Nikolas Morris…. Read more »