Another year, another NAMM Show. The NAMM Show is the world’s largest trade-only (-ish) event for the music, sound, and event technology industry. It’s an annual gathering where manufacturers, ...

The Story & Clark Storytone was, arguably, the first commercially available electric piano. Its development was a joint venture between the Story & Clark Piano Company (U.S.) and the Radio Corporation ...

This year (2023) is the 170th anniversary of the founding of Steinway & Sons. It was back in 1853 that Henry E. Steinway Snr. established the company in a rented loft in New York City. But the seeds ...

Keybird Instruments has launched a new acoustic piano that weighs just 50kg (110 pounds). Compare this to a typical upright at around 250kg (550 pounds), and to a grand piano which can easily be twice ...

There is an exciting new project taking shape in Edinburgh. Plans are afoot to build a 100 seater, “playable” amphitheatre constructed entirely from unwanted pianos. It is known as the Pianodrome.

In 2009 the Alexander piano was, arguably, the largest piano in the world. It was build by Adrian Mann in a friend’s farm shed in Dunedin, New Zealand. Incredibly Mann was just 20 when he completed ...

In 1821 Sébastien Érard patented a new piano action – the “double escapement”. The importance of this development cannot be overstated. It was the birth of the modern grand piano action, and in ...

À la recherche de l’instrument roi Tome 1 (In Search of the King of instruments Volume 1) is French photographer and amateur pianist Romain Thiery’s latest art book about pianos. The work is a visual ...

The “World of Clavinovas” can be a bit confusing. There are three different series of models – the CSP-Series, CVP-Series and CLP-Series. In essence, CSP instruments are for musical beginners, or ...

Yamaha has just unveiled the next generation of its much-lauded CFX concert grand piano. The original Yamaha CFX was launched back in 2010, and although a hand-crafted instrument, technological ...

European piano manufacturer C. Bechstein and its subsidiary W.Hoffmann introduce two interesting small upright pianos this summer. C. Bechstein Academy A 4 (left) and W.Hoffmann Vision V 2 (right) ...

The Oeser is a new virtual piano from the Dutch software house Key Instruments (part of Key Productions). It is also their first virtual piano. Key Productions (the parent company) is primarily a ...