Piano Day 2017
Piano Day is a worldwide celebration of the piano. It takes place on the 88th day of each year. Why the 88th? Simply to reflect the number of keys on… Read more »
Coming… Coming… Soon! Next UK Piano Auction
The next major piano auction in the UK is set for midday, April 6th 2017. It will be held as usual at Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, Holborn, London WC1R… Read more »
Piano Destruction Ritual: Pianos were harmed in the making of this video
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… Read more »
Pianists have faster reaction times. Fact.
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… Read more »
NAMM 2017: Fazioli unveil new generation F278 Concert Grand
Italian piano manufacturer Fazioli has 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… Read more »
La La GRAND
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… Read more »
… When life throws you a Piano!
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… Read more »
The Search for Napoleon’s ‘Persian’ piano.
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… Read more »
Turn your keyboard into a grand for about a grand.
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… Read more »
There’s gold in them there Broadwood pianos…
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… Read more »