Prince’s ALPHA Grand 97— Sold!
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 »
Category Archives: New Product
New Product: The Virtual Steingraeber E-272 from Modartt
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 »
New Product: Yamaha P-515 Portable Digital Piano
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 »
The World’s Largest Piano Mk.2?
In 2009 the Alexander piano was, arguably, the largest piano in the world. It was build by Adrian Mann in a friend’s farm shed in Dunedin, New Zealand. Incredibly Mann was just 20 when he… Read more »
The Roland Kiyola Home Piano
Roland recently announced that their Kiyola KF-10 mid-century styled home piano is available in the United States exclusively from the Museum of Modern Art’s (MoMA) Design Store. This has prompted a closer look at this… Read more »
New Pianos at Musikmesse 2018
Despite a good turn-out from the piano manufacturing industry, there were relatively few actual new instruments on show at this year’s Musikmesse in Frankfurt. A wave of new pianos were unveiled back in January at… Read more »
New Product: Nord Piano 4
Clavia DMI have just announced that the Nord Piano 4, the latest generation of their award-winning digital Piano Series, will ship this summer. The Nord Piano first appeared in 2010. It uses digital samples as… Read more »
The Teague: Mid-Century Modern Revisited
Steinway & Sons have just announced their latest Limited Edition grand piano—the Teague Sketch 1111. 1953 was Steinway’s 100th anniversary, and Walter Dorwin Teague, an American industrial designer and architect, was commissioned by Steinway to… Read more »
Unveiled: The World’s Largest Upright Piano
After 3 years of meticulous construction David Klavins will unveil to the world the Klavins M450 Vertical Concert Grand, a 4.5 metre tall vertical piano. This will be the largest upright piano every built. David… Read more »
ENSPIRE PRO System Update
The excellent Disklavier ENSPIRE PRO system is now available for both Yamaha’s SX and Bösendorfer’s VC series of grand pianos. Bösendorfer became a wholly owned subsidiary of Yamaha in 2008. Yamaha’s SX Series was introduced… Read more »