I can see a market for the una corda, smaller, lighter, cheaper, and very sweet sounding. Easier (and cheaper) to tune and no bad unisons.
Perhaps the concert piano could be built into the hall the way pipe organs are. They use monitors to see the conductor in pit and offstage ensembles now. It has a player mechanism also so the player could play it remotely.
It has the shortcoming of a vertical action and it must take something extra to damp the strings. Bichords all the way down to the bottom.
I'd like to hear the tenor and bass. He didn't have to compromise on tension in the tenor section so it's probably more in line harmonically with the rest of the piano.
Might be worth a trip to Hungary if one was in the neighborhood
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Klavins.------------------------------
Steven Rosenthal
Honolulu HI
808-521-7129
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Original Message:
Sent: 05-09-2019 16:43
From: Willem Blees
Subject: A very tall piano
A neat concept, but not very marketable. The guy must be independently wealthy to be able to afford to make them.
The concert grand is not exactly practical, either, for the concert stage. Besides taking up a lot of vertical space, it's kind of hard to see the conductor from such a high vantage point. And then I would hate to see Olga Kern climb up that ladder in one of her long flowing evening gowns.
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Willem "Wim" Blees, RPT
Mililani, HI 96789
Original Message:
Sent: 05-09-2019 14:46
From: Steven Rosenthal
Subject: A very tall piano
A very tall piano from David Klavins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_781ocupP7U&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR0mapQq3XRtYsE1xAdjRCENER7e7JfcvxEg395Qq-tf2jm8y8Ql5SQ0Ecs
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Steven Rosenthal
Honolulu HI
808-521-7129
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