What or Where is Piano Land?
There’s now a cruise ship called “Piano Land”, and it has just completed its maiden voyage. Well that’s not strictly true. A new Chinese cruise line (Astro Ocean) recently purchased the MV Oriana from P&O… Read more »
The Feurich Model 123 – Vienna Modern Copper
The German/Austrian piano manufacturer Feurich has just released a special edition of their Model 123 — Vienna Modern upright piano. And it’s all about copper. The original Model 123 — Vienna, when introduced in 2016,… Read more »
The Steinway Haara Chandelier
Here’s something a bit different. Steinway & Sons UK, in collaboration with Cameron Design House, has produced the Steinway Haara Chandelier. Although a bit “off-topic” for this website, it is worth taking a look at… Read more »
The Schimmel K208 Pegasus Piano
Schimmel Pianos recently delivered a customized, bright blue Pegasus grand piano to the 5-star Hotel Atlantis in Sanya, China. And this event provides an opportunity to take a closer look at this remarkable instrument. Anyone… Read more »
New Products: CASIO Celviano GP-310 and GP-510
Casio has today released news of two new models – the GP-310 and the GP-510. These two instruments form part of Casio’s premium Celviano Grand Hybrid product range. They are both uprated versions of the… Read more »
88 Pianists and One Piano — a Spectacular Challenge
The challenge was to have 88 different pianists simultaneously play an acoustic piano. This would be a world record that could never be broken (pianos have 88 notes*). How was it done? Twenty or so… Read more »
The Standing Grand Project
Mid-August (2019): Sarah Nicolls launches a Kickstarter campaign to fund the Standing Grand Project. The aim is to develop an upright piano that has a grand’s fullness of sound, but which is also compact, lightweight… Read more »
New Product: Kawai NOVUS NV5
The NOVUS NV5 is the latest hybrid piano from Kawai Japan. It joins the award-winning NOVUS NV10 in the catalogue. And in simple terms, the NV5 is the “upright”, and the NV10 the “grand”. Kawai… Read more »
Steinway Buys Louis Renner
Steinway & Sons has purchased Louis Renner GmbH & Co. KG. The German Renner company manufactures grand and upright piano actions as well as many special piano components and tools. Steinway (Hamburg) has used Renner… Read more »
The 2019 Toy Piano Festival
For the past 19 years, the University of California San Diego Library has held a Toy Piano Festival. It was established to celebrate this unique musical instrument and to pay homage to American composer John… Read more »