New Addition to Steinway Concert Hall Series
The Steinway Concert Hall Series is a collection of limited edition grand pianos honouring major concert halls around the world. These pianos are designed to capture the unique features of… Read more »
Category: New Product
The Rhodes Piano is Back!
The legendary Rhodes electric piano, often referred to as the Fender Rhodes, is now reincarnated in the form of the Rhodes MK8. This is an electric piano – not a… Read more »
Le Silex – Pianos Past and Present
Edelweiss Pianos is one of the few remaining British piano makers. The company hand-builds bespoke acoustic self-play pianos at its workshop just outside Cambridge. Its models include a grand piano,… Read more »
200th Anniversary of Érard’s Double Escapement Action
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 »
Piano Colors — a musical paintbox
Piano Colors is an extraordinary new library of grand piano sounds combined with enhanced modulation and processing capabilities. It delivers sounds, textures, and musical patterns, the like of which you… Read more »
The Cloud Fazioli
Westbank is Canada’s leading luxury residential and mixed-use real estate developer. When it commissions architects to design a building it likes them to also design a grand piano that reflects… Read more »
The Piano Bench — A New Look
The piano bench is often an afterthought when buying a piano, and this is hardly surprising, it’s not normally the most glamorous of products. However, one new company, Kaunus, is… Read more »
New Product: Casio PX-S1100 Digital Piano
Casio unveils the Privia PX-S1100, which replaces its award-winning PX-S1000 digital piano. The new iteration retains most of its predecessor’s features, whilst improving the overall sound quality and expanding the… Read more »
Sampleson Launches Reed106 Virtual Piano
Software house Sampleson has just released Reed106, with the strapline “The first ever-changing modelled electric piano”. This is a virtual instrument. It comes as either a VST or AU plugin… Read more »
Two New Upright Pianos from C. Bechstein
European piano manufacturer C. Bechstein and its subsidiary W.Hoffmann introduce two interesting small upright pianos this summer. Before examining these new instruments it is worth taking a quick look at… Read more »