New York based Raphael Montañez Ortiz is a conceptual artist. In 1966 he co-founded the Destruction of Art Symposium, a group designed to highlight the futile loss of life and environmental damage caused by the… Read more »
Recently released research by Simon Landry and François Champoux at the University of Montreal has found that musicians respond faster to sensory stimuli than non-musicians. Landry, the lead researcher, set about comparing the reaction times… Read more »
Italian piano manufacturer Fazioli have revealed their new generation of F278 concert grands at this month’s NAMM show in California. These instruments feature Fazioli’s latest piano action which is primarily designed to reduce the effects… Read more »
MINOR PLOT SPOILER: If you’ve seen the much acclaimed film La La Land, you’ll know it features a lot of piano. But you may also have noticed Ryan Gosling’s character playing a rather strange looking instrument… Read more »
I doubt you’ve ever seen an ad that uses a piano in such a shocking way. This bleak TV advert, entitled “Lies” is for the Middle Eastern clothing chain Centrepoint’s sale. The rather off-message message in this… Read more »
The Tehran Times has reported that a Dutch jazz pianist is searching for a piano once gifted to a Persian king by Napoleon Bonaparte. The piano, the first to ever arrive in Persia, was presented in 1806…. Read more »
If you use a keyboard or digital piano on stage, you must accept that appearance-wise, these instruments aren’t that attractive. For the past few years Amsterdam-based company Dutchgrand have been doing their bit to rectify… Read more »
A family in Shropshire, England has found a substantial amount of gold “treasure” hidden away in their family piano – a Broadwood upright piano made in 1906. The “find”, in the form of gold coins,… Read more »
George Michael was the benefactor who paid an unknown collector £1.45m (1.75m USD) for John Lennon’s Steinway Z1 upright piano in 2000. This was so it could remain in the UK, and not be sold… Read more »
Nord, the Swedish electronic musical instrument manufacturer have added the Royal Grand 3D to the Nord Piano Library. Nord state that this is their first piano recorded using the binaural head technique. This uses an… Read more »