Pianos are a staple at World's Fairs, and Expo 2025 Osaka is no different. Visit World Piano News for updates and information ...

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 ...

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 ...

Schimmel Pianos recently delivered a customized, bright blue Pegasus grand piano to the 5-star Hotel Atlantis in Sanya, China. And this event provides an opportunity to take a closer look at this ...

The Kulangsu Piano Museum Entrance to the Kulangsu (Gulangyu) Piano Museum And it is therefore not really surprising that the focus of the island’s cultural scene is the Kulangsu Piano Museum. With ...

VSL’s Studio Bösendorfer Imperial Over the years, VSL has released three different sampled-based virtual editions of the Bösendorfer Imperial. (1) the Vienna Imperial; (2) the Synchron Bösendorfer ...

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 “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 ...

Diving Board Keys The designation “diving board” is a new term to describe a long-existing key profile. Diving board keys have a wedge-like shape (see diagram), and come from the world of the pipe ...

Westbank is Canada’s leading luxury residential and mixed-use real estate developer. When it commissions architects to design a building it likes them to also design a grand piano that reflects the ...