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 »
Tag: Yamaha
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 »
Yamaha’s Red Envelope
What is in the red envelope? It’s a key. Could it be the key to something very special…? Yamaha have produced a US TV commercial for their pianos. Surprisingly this… Read more »
The Piano Room
A new double CD album entitled The Piano Room is released on October 27th. Now I don’t normally write about recordings on this site, but this album is, ostensibly, more… Read more »
New Product: Yamaha AvantGrand NU1X Hybrid Piano
Yamaha have just revealed the successor to the remarkable, award-winning AvantGrand NU1… the NU1X. The brief Yamaha gave their designers for the original NU1 was “produce an instrument that is… Read more »
Prince’s Purple Piano Pantone
The Pantone Color Institute has released a new standardised custom colour inspired by the purple piano Yamaha made for Prince. Pantone Inc. is an American company best known for its… Read more »
Learn to Play Your Songs in Your Music Library
Yamaha will be releasing two new Clavinovas in September; the CSP-150 and CSP-170. The US MSRP for a matte black finish is $3,999 and $5,399 respectively, and $600 extra for… Read more »
Two Million Dollar Pianos
There are two “Million Dollar Pianos” in the news at the moment. Firstly Elton John has announced new performance dates for his “Million Dollar Piano” show at Caesar’s Palace, Las… Read more »