Garritan is offering authorized electronic sample of a Steinway Concert Grand for electronic keyboard instruments. On the other hand it only costs $399 for the software.
This article from the Chicago Tribune discusses the current state of piano manufacturers in Europe. There are many small, very high quality manufacturers who have having a difficult time surviving.
Chris Maene, a Belgian instrument-maker, has built an exact replica of Steinway’s first piano and it is touring the world. This week it is in Melbourne.
“Is the sense of entitlement at MIT so entrenched that the enrolled geniuses think dropping a piano from a dormitory roof is justifiable - as opposed to donating it to an area school?”
WHO: Lane E. Miller, senior piano technician at SUNY Potsdam’s Crane School of Music, whose job it is to tune and maintain the school’s 142 Steinway & Sons pianos. This RPT member has a nice write-up in the Watertown Daily Times
This YouTube Video is a computer animation of the movement of a piano soundboard when playing different notes. This presentation was given at the 2007 PTG Convention and is now available to everyone.
This NPR article includes a link to the radio spot about this project the brain child of artist, Kevin Isaacs. The pianos have created interest among locals.
