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The Process The decoration – 23-carat gold leaf – adorns the entire outer rim of the casework. It is carefully applied by a complex combination of painting brushing and etching. The Skyline branding, ...

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 ...

The Origami Fazioli The new Origami Fazioli and the original Fairmont Fazioli (inset) Ten years ago Fazioli, with the Canadian firm of architects McFarlane, Green and Biggar, designed a special ...

Last week Berkley Square hosted the eleventh PAD London art fair. This internationally acclaimed event showcases prestigious artworks encompassing contemporary, modern and historical design, with ...

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 ...

Rhodes, showed the Stage 61 – a five octave prototype version of its MK8 electric piano. The Stage 61 has a look akin to the original Rhodes Mk.5, and like the Rhodes Stage pianos of old, there is no ...

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 ...

Electric Pianos At this time an electric, or more accurately “electro-mechanical”, piano was essentially a normal acoustic piano but with the soundboard replaced by electric amplification.

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 ...

The above video clip of the airship’s Blüthner piano is thought to have been made in a mock-up of the Hindenburg’s music salon, and not whilst airborne. Nevertheless it does give an idea as to the ...

Braunschweig, Germany – Nikolaus Wilhelm Schimmel, a luminary in the piano industry and a key figure in the history of Schimmel Pianos, passed away on December 24, 2024, at the age of 90. Nikolaus, ...