Pianos

July 8th 2009

Audi-Designed Grand Piano Is Unsurprisingly Carlike

Or maybe it’s just that cars and pianos are inherently similar: They both have pedals, hood-ish mechanisms, make noise, and sit users at some manner of control panel. If that didn’t blow your mind, then, well, you probably understand art. The Audi Design Team collaborated with piano maker Bosendorfer to construct this grand piano, which…

Tech News John Herrman Jul 8

January 18th 2009

Yamaha AvantGrand Digital Piano Vibrates in All the Right Places

High end digital pianos sound great, and have come a long way over the years, but ask any professional musician and they’ll tell you they just don’t feel the same as a traditional baby grand. So Yamaha went to work on AvantGrand, an ingenious digital piano that uses strategically-placed resonators to pound the pianist with…

Tech News Jack Loftus Jan 18

January 6th 2009

Rest in Peace, Olde Tyme Automatic Player Pianos

The gradual, relentless digitization of everything takes a little longer to seep into the more obscure technological quarters. The latest outmoded gadget to fall? The analog player piano. Old-style player pianos, which rely on rolls of dimpled paper tablature to cue a piano to play music, have been helping their owners cheat for the better…

Tech News John Herrman Jan 6

November 26th 2007

Compiano: Part Computer, Part Piano, All Insane

According to its eBay listing, this $20,000 piano “is not a piano at all” but a fully functioning computer with a hidden 26″ Philips LCD TV/monitor and a 6.8 GHz processor. Modded from a 1904 Chickering upright piano, the maker argues that it is not just “the world’s most beautiful computer,” but “the world’s oldest…

Tech News Wilson Rothman Nov 26

October 11th 2007

Yamaha’s Latest Electronic Pianos Fix What’s Baroque (Gallery)

Today at Yamaha’s line show in NYC, pianos took center stage. Yamaha, one of the world’s biggest piano makers, has been innovating on the design for years. The current crop of radical, digital shifts forward: • Disklavier 2.0 – $10,000 to $80,000 – Grand piano’s brand new software streams digital player-piano songs over the internet,…

Tech News Wilson Rothman Oct 11

February 8th 2007

Piano as Sculpture: Fazioli M. Luminal Looks as Good as It Sounds

Piano design has changed little in the past two centuries, but now Philippe Gendre has a new take on the concert grand in his design called M. Liminal, made by Fazioli pianos. Its asymmetrical shape looks positively aerodynamic, and it’s a blend of the old and the new with its wood on top and stainless…

Tech News Charlie White Feb 8

February 21st 2006

The Cat Piano

Chill out, PETA. The cat piano was the work of a German scholar over 350 years ago. Athanasius Kircher designed the cat piano and documented it in the Musurgia Universalis in 1650. The piano was designed to raise the spirits of an Italian prince who was too stressed out. The musician would select cats whose…

Gadgets Travis Hudson Feb 21

February 11th 2006

Bsendorfer VC7 and AC7 Loudspeakers

You’ve probably seen the name B sendorfer festooned on the side of the finest pianos in the world, but did you know the company also makes high-end loudspeakers? B sendorfer has taken all it has learned in pianomaking since 1828 and rolled that into an exclusive line of speakers it’s been offering for the past…

Tech News Charlie White Feb 11

Audi-Designed Grand Piano Is Unsurprisingly Carlike

Yamaha AvantGrand Digital Piano Vibrates in All the Right Places

Rest in Peace, Olde Tyme Automatic Player Pianos

Compiano: Part Computer, Part Piano, All Insane

Yamaha’s Latest Electronic Pianos Fix What’s Baroque (Gallery)

Piano as Sculpture: Fazioli M. Luminal Looks as Good as It Sounds

The Cat Piano

Bsendorfer VC7 and AC7 Loudspeakers

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