Cole Porter’s famous piano, which he himself named “High Society”, has been meticulously restored by Steinway and Sons. This is the instrument on which Porter wrote many of his most popular songs including “Anything Goes”,… Read more »
Queen Victoria was born on 24 May 1819. And various exhibitions and festivities are taking place throughout 2019 to celebrate this 200th Anniversary. And pianos play their part. Both Queen Victoria (r.1837-1901) and her husband Prince… Read more »
Elmer is a dazzling new model from Cambridge (UK) based piano makers Edelweiss. The company likes to produce instruments that really stand out, and appropriately have taken the childrens’ picture book character Elmer the Elephant as… Read more »
Several new virtual piano instrument packs have been released in the past few weeks. These include NOIRE from Native Instruments, and Sampleson’s Model T. NOIRE from Native Instruments NOIRE takes the 9 ft (275 cm) Yamaha CFX… Read more »
Last week a rare 1916 baseball card found inside an old piano, and featuring Babe Ruth, sold at auction for USD 130,000. And a couple of years ago, a hoard of 913 gold coins was… Read more »
The latest addition to the Steinway’s Limited Edition range of grand pianos is the Lang Lang Black Diamond. This piano was recently unveiled to 1,600 guests at an exclusive Lang Lang concert held at the… Read more »
Antonín Petrof built his first grand piano in 1864. 155 years later the company bearing his name celebrates this event by unveiling three new limited edition instruments. Petrof is still based in its original hometown… Read more »
Following last year’s launch of the LX700 range, Roland has just unveiled their new HP700 series of digital pianos for the home. Two models, the HP702 and the higher spec’d HP704 have been announced and… Read more »
Not all the pianos attributed to John Lennon were actually owned by him — but this decorated 1872 Broadwood upright certainly was. And it is on this piano that Lennon wrote much of the Sgt…. Read more »
On 13 May 1787 eleven ships left Portsmouth harbour to establish a penal colony in Australia. Some eight months later the vessels arrived at Botany Bay and this became the first European settlement in Australia…. Read more »