The setting is designed to envelope the listener, which made The Armoy at Park Avenue in NYC a perfect location for “11,000 ...
The piece is a work of enormous scope and forcefulness that reaches, by some pivot of a lens, an intimacy that surprises.
Between the 50 pianos and the instruments in the orchestra, the total number of strings the audience hears is closer to ...
Manufacturing in America isn’t easy. But Steinway & Sons, a 150-year-old company based in New York City, is a rare bright spot and example of how domestic producers can survive.
Fender’s CBS era is often boiled down to an equation of ‘corporate drive for profit and quantity = lowering of build ...
As I made my way out of the Park Avenue Armory after a performance of Georg Friedrich Haas’s “11,000 Strings” Saturday afternoon, a friend asked what I’d thought of what we’d just heard. For the ...
Nothing adds organic character to a track like live piano, but recording one isn’t easy. We lift the piano lid and talk about ...
A particularly handy feature on the PSR-E360 is the ‘Portable Grand’ button, which instantly returns the instrument to the main piano sound; a simple but valuable touch when navigating the many voices ...
Joachim Rønning will direct the documentary 'Keys of Life,' about an 100-year-old piano on which legendary songs like 'Hey ...