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28/11/2023

Steinway has unveiled another new limited edition grand piano. This time it comes from their European factory in Hamburg and is a collaboration between Steinway and the remarkable French designer Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance.

To find out more, and get a closer look, go to the World Piano News website (click below).

Available in three finishes; Burgundy Red, Midnight Blue, and Ivory White

17/11/2023

The Gemini is a new art-case upright piano from Czech manufacturer PETROF. Purchasers can liaise with renowned artist MAXIM to create their own unique instrument - the answer to an interior designer's prayer!
To find out more go to the World Piano News website (click below).

An art-case upright with a removable rear panel

03/11/2023

The "Harmony of Nature" piano is a unique and stunning work of art, inspired by the shapes and colours of autumnal leaves.
To find out more go to the World Piano News website (click below).

Unlike any piano you've seen before!

26/10/2023

Steinway, in conjunction with Disney, has released a new piano to celebrate Disney’s 100th birthday. Read all about it on the World Piano News website (click below).

The "Steinway X Disney: Mickey Mouse Limited Edition" grand piano

03/10/2023

The ultra-portable and highly affordable Loog Piano is receiving massive support on its Kickstarter crowdfunding page. Will it inspire the younger generation to take up the piano? Is it the perfect travelling companion? Loog has done it before.
Find out more on the World Piano News website.

Something new and different for 2024!

26/09/2023

A fire at Austrian piano maker Bösendorfer's factory has destroyed a building containing much of the company's irreplaceable archive.
For more information and the latest update go to the World Piano News website.

Firefighters at the company’s Wiener Neustadt premises

18/09/2023

The differences between the vast array of digital piano ranges and series, many with inscrutable classifications, can be extremely confusing. We've tried to make things easier to understand by clarifying the current offerings of the major manufacturers.

Click below to go to the World Piano News website and get the full picture.

So many different digital pianos…!

31/08/2023

Calling all budding musical instrument inventors! The Guthman Musical Instrument Competition is now open for submissions to its 2024 event.

Take a look at some past piano-related entries and find out how you can enter this prestigious contest. Go to the World Piano News website for more details.

The 2024 Guthman Musical Instrument Competition

12/08/2023

Two culturally significant pianos are to be auctioned in September — the "Lennon-Ono-Green-Warhol Piano", and Freddie Mercury's prized Yamaha baby grand. They are both expected to sell for well over one million dollars/pounds/euros!
Go to the World Piano News website to find out more.

Freddie Mercury's Yamaha baby grand (L), and John Lennon's Baldwin concert grand (R).

31/07/2023

Chickering & Sons was founded in Boston exactly 200 years ago. And in the mid-19th century, it was the largest piano maker in America.
Discover more about this important piano manufacturer and how its innovations are still used in the modern instrument. Click below to go to the World Piano News website.

Jonas Chickering established the company in 1823

18/07/2023

Elton John's performance at Glastonbury 2023 has generated a sharp increase in piano sales.
Visit the World Piano News website (click below) for more on this story.

Elton John performs in front of 120,000 at Glastonbury

07/07/2023

Steinway & Sons is celebrating its 170th anniversary this year, but the saga starts many years before, and the “Kitchen” piano, built in 1836, is a key milestone in that story.

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The original Steinway Kitchen Piano on display at MIM, Arizona, USA

20/06/2023

The third 2023 Stretto (not Street!) Piano Festival runs from July 15 to July 23.

But what is a Stretto piano? Look closely at the attached image!

To find out more, go to the World Piano News website (click on image).

Taking place live and online from July 15 to July 23, 2023

01/06/2023

Yamaha launches two new "Piaggero" digital pianos which will appeal to both the beginner pianist, and to those who want a piano that's as light and easy to carry around as a guitar.
Go to the World Piano News website to find out more (click below).

Front and side views of the NP-15 (available in black or white)

23/05/2023

Launched in 1939, the Story & Clark Storytone is generally considered to be the world’s first commercially available electric piano.
Visit the World Piano Website to discover more about this fascinating, and very attractive, instrument and how it came about.

A Storytone Moderne from 1939 (photo: Antiquity Music)

16/05/2023

What does a piano sound like when played under water? Impact Soundworks' new virtual instrument "Water Piano" answers that question. But how was it done? And what does it sound like?
For answers check out the World Piano News website today.

A new virtual instrument from Impact Soundworks

25/04/2023

This year’s NAMM Show attracted 46,711 visitors and had over 1700 exhibitors. Check out the various new acoustic and digital pianos on display by visiting the World Piano News website.

The NAMM Show 13th-15th April, 2023

27/03/2023

This combination keyboard was made in 1840 by Jakob Deutschmann and Anton Tomaschek. It was the star performer at the recent auction of Prof. Dr. Rudolf Ewerhart’s collection of historical musical instruments.

What happened at the auction? What did this instrument sell for? What did all the other pianos sell for? And what is a physharmonica? Find out by visiting the World Piano News website.

Lot 104: Fortepiano with built-in Physharmonica

21/03/2023

Piano Day has been running for 9 years, and over that time it has gone from strength to strength.
Find out more about this worldwide celebration of the piano by visiting the World Piano News website.

March 29th is this year's Piano Day

10/03/2023

These two new plugins are the first-ever virtual instruments to officially carry the Rhodes name. And they have been built with meticulous attention to detail.
Find out more by visiting the World Piano News website.

Multi-sampled emulations of the Rhodes MK8 electric piano.

23/02/2023

Once a fashionable piano accessory, the piano insulator claimed to improve the instrument's volume and tone.
Go to the World Piano News website to find out more.

Six glass piano insulators from Victorian times. Photos: Christine Hudson.

14/02/2023

This exceptional collection of historical instruments will be auctioned on March 18, 2023 in Wassenach, Germany. Items on sale include 29 pianos dating from 1760 to 1860.
Find out more by visiting the World Piano News website.

The pianos from the collection of Prof. Dr. Rudolf Ewerhart

06/02/2023

You can now see and hear one of Liberace's famous mirrored grand pianos in the Artists' Bar at London's Dorchester Hotel.
The 1976 Baldwin piano has been fully renovated and looks spectacular in the newly opened bar. Read more on the World Piano News website.

Liberace's 1976 mirrored grand piano — in the Artists' Bar

24/01/2023

A prepared piano opens up a whole new palette of sounds. Check out UVI's IRCAM Prepared Piano 2 — an exciting new virtual instrument.
Find out more by visiting the World Piano News website.

The acoustic and the virtual prepared piano

12/01/2023

Yamaha's new P-S500 is the first in the company’s P-Series of portable digital pianos to feature Stream Lights. It's also Smart!
Find out more by visiting the World Piano News website.

Stream Lights shows which notes to play and when.

22/12/2022

For the hit Broadway play "The Piano Lesson" the director needed a very special piano to be built.
Find out more by visiting the World Piano News website.

The custom made prop piano.

13/12/2022

“Dal Sogno Al Suono” (English: From the Dream to the Sound) is a new documentary film that looks back over the past 40 years of the Fazioli Pianoforti company.
Find out more by visiting the World Piano News website.

A new film celebrating 40 years of Fazioli

11/04/2022

What if you could play all 88 notes of a piano at once?

This new video from YouTuber Mark Rober is fascinating and somewhat mind-blowing.

If you haven’t already seen it, go to the World Piano News website for more information and to watch it. It’s also a lot of fun!

Mark Rober and Chopstix (a modified Edelweiss U49)

28/03/2022

How has Yamaha improved its award-winning flagship concert grand piano? Visit the World Piano News website for full details.

The 2022 Incarnation of the Yamaha CFX piano

24/03/2022

Don't forget... March 29th is Piano Day. Find out more at the World Piano News website.

It's that time again...

18/03/2022

Throw away the keyboard, and the piano is still a great source of musical timbres and effects. Soundiron has just released STRUCK PIANO 2.0 — a really wild and powerful collection of sounds produced by “attacking” the strings of a Steinway piano.
Discover a little more about prepared pianos, and about this impressive sample library at World Piano News.

The Struck Grand piano library from Soundiron

01/03/2022

20 years ago “Henry the Steinway and the Piano Recital” was published. To celebrate the anniversary this excellent children’s book is being reissued.

Visit the World Piano News website to read more about the “Henry the Steinway” series, and why it may be just the publication to introduce your child to the magical world of pianos.

It’s the 20th anniversary of this classic children’s book

21/02/2022

Piano AR is a free web-based solution that lets you see what an acoustic piano (upright or grand) would look like in your home.
Find out more at World Piano News, and give it a try — it’s really easy to use, and actually quite fun!

Yamaha's new augmented reality (AR) tool breaks new ground

14/02/2022

This piano was used on the legendary 1956 Million Dollar Quartet session featuring Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Carl Perkins, and on many more great Sun Records recordings. The piano is now up for sale.
Find out more about this instrument, its history and a bit about spinet pianos at World Piano News.

The historic 1949 Wurlitzer spinet piano from Sun Studio

04/02/2022

A unique model of a grand piano used in the cult 60s TV puppet series JOE 90 (nothing to do with President Biden) is to be sold at auction this February. It stands 20in high, and is made with meticulous attention to detail.
Read more about this remarkable “piano” at World Piano News.

A beautifully crafted model of a grand piano - as seen on TV

21/01/2022

Casio has upgraded its CDP-S entry-level range of digital pianos. The new models are the CDP-S110, CDP-S160 and CDP-S360.
Find out more at World Piano News.

Casio CDP-S360 — top of the CDP-S range

12/01/2022

Robert Adelson's new work is a fascinating history of the Erard company — possibly the most innovative piano house ever to have existed.

A new book by renown musicologist Robert Adelson

07/01/2022

The new Faber Piano Adventures 2022 Calendar: "A Year of Inspiration at the Piano" combines striking piano-related images with motivational quotations, and notable music events/anniversaries.
Find out more at World Piano News.

The Faber Piano Adventures Calendar 2022

18/12/2021

World Piano News takes look at the various award-winning pianos (digital, virtual, and acoustic) that have won the music and design industry's awards this year. Click image to find out more.

The "Kawai meets Hida" mini grand piano

30/11/2021

There are always pianos to be found at a World's Fair—and Expo 2020 (2021) Dubai is no exception. Read all about the various pianos that can be found at Expo 2020 at World Piano News.

Eleanora Costantini and the Flying Piano

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The site provides interesting, informative, fascinating, and trivial stories covering most aspects of this very special instrument.

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