Last month we wrote about a piano maker incorporating old visual art into new built pianos. This time the opposite applies creating new visual art out of old pianos. Broken strings and missing keys have made an appearance on the art scene as part of the Piano As Art Exhibition. A collaboration of two talented artists, Penny Putnam and Shauna Holiman, the exhibition features art created from bits and pieces of pianos that were too [...]

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Why havent there been any fundamental changes of grand piano design since the 1870s? Some claim it is because manufacturers are afraid of getting beaten up in the marketplace if their pianos are seen as being experimental. Others say that musicians tend to be a conservative group of people and do not embrace radical changes to the touch or tone of their instruments. However, piano designers must take care not to drastically change the feel [...]

Thanks to my dear friend Roger Adelmann for sending me what looks to be a fascinating and revealing new biography of Frederic Chopin.  A recent review by the London Telegraph states that author Adam Zamoyski’s “highly readable account brings non-technical insights to the music itself and he is superb at [...]

Keyboard Interpretation from the 14th to the 19th Century by Howard Ferguson. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993 (1975). 215 pp. This inspiring standard work is an introduction to the interpretation of keyboard music from the fourteenth to the nineteenth century. Dr Ferguson provides information about the instruments themselves, and [...]