Piano Vertical—a Performance Like No Other!
It’s not often you see something that is “jaw-dropping”. But last month’s PIano Vertical concert in Munich most certainly deserves this description. Could the playing of a piano be any… Read more »
Tag: Yamaha
Yamaha’s AI Piano System “Dear Glenn”
Yamaha has unveiled its first comprehensive AI piano system. The Japanese musical instrument manufacturer has been working with artificial intelligence technology for many years, and the fruits of their labour… Read more »
Inspirational New Digital Piano Designs from Yamaha
Yamaha, in conjunction with high-end Chinese furniture maker Mexarts, recently revealed three new digital pianos. These are concept models—you can’t buy them (at least not yet). Their aim is to… Read more »
New Yamaha Pianos at NAMM 2019
Yamaha has launched a whole host of digital pianos at NAMM 2019. These include the AvantGrand N1X hybrid; the CP73 and CP78 stage pianos; and three additions to the Arius… Read more »
New Product: Yamaha P-121 Portable Digital Piano
Yamaha has just launched the P-121 portable digital piano, the first of their P-Series to feature a smaller, 6-octave keyboard. This follows the unveiling, at this year’s summer NAMM show, of… 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… Read more »
Seismic Waves and The Tsunami Piano
In 2011, the Great East Japan Earthquake and subsequent tsunami devastated large areas of the country’s eastern seaboard. In the north-eastern region of Tohoku, amongst the wreckage of the Miyagi… Read more »
Competing with (Disklavier) Technology
Piano competitions don’t usually feature here on the World Piano News website. We concern ourselves with matters relating, primarily, to the instrument itself. But the 2018 International Piano-e-Competition is something… 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… 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…. Read more »