Pianotech

  • 1.  Innovation still happens

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 11-28-2023 10:53

    Coming soon to Carnegie Hall

    https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/28/nyregion/piano-curved-keyboard-carnegie-hall.html?unlocked_article_code=1.B00.XZ6c.Pd5HzZyNjcdm&smid=url-share



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    Karl Roeder
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  • 2.  RE: Innovation still happens

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 11-28-2023 13:25

    For those who can't access the Times article:

    https://www.chrismaene.be/the-maene-vinoly-concert-grand/



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    Honolulu HI
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  • 3.  RE: Innovation still happens

    Posted 11-28-2023 15:06

    It's actually not an innovation. It's been done before, a little over a hundred years  ago. I saw a pic of one in a museum somewhere, just can't remember where.

    It didn't quite catch on then.

    -chris



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  • 4.  RE: Innovation still happens

    Member
    Posted 11-28-2023 21:02

    I too have seen a picture of a circular keyboard. It is in one of my piano reference books I will have to hunt down. Pedal pianos go way back as well. Straight strung grands are around such as the Altenburg Grand that I think was made by Cunningham in Philadelphia



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    James Kelly
    Owner- Fur Elise Piano Service
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