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Keybird ~ A New Portable Piano
Many years ago, I remember seeing a piano in a museum similar to the one shown above (built in 1787 by Christian Gottlob Hubert. On display at Germanisches Nationalmuseum - Nuremberg, Germany). I have often wondered why acoustic portable pianos never really took off. Although we've seen more portable keyboard instruments like harpsichords, accordions ... Continue Reading
Many years ago, I remember seeing a piano in a museum built in the 1700's that was portable. I have often wondered why acoustic portable pianos never really took off. When you play these early pianos from the late 1700’s, they don’t really resemble pianos like we know them today. These portable pianos had a thin, tinny sound due to light-weight strings, much like guitar strings. In the evolution of the piano, there was a desire for better tone, and bigger sound, having lush warmth with beautiful sustain. In order to achieve these qualities, however, more strings and thicker strings were added. This created a problem – adding more strings meant more tension and more tension required more structural integrity and so, cast iron was implemented to create the rigidity to withstand more than 19 tons of string tension of a modern piano. As we all know, iron creates weight, and the weight makes for an instrument that isn’t portable. Really petite modern pianos today weigh 375 lbs (170 kg) while concert grands can weigh as much as 1550 lbs! (700kgs!). But still my thoughts of a portable piano have remained, wondering what a modern take on an old concept might look like.
Well this year at the NAMM show, the Keybird piano was the fulfillment of that concept. It is unlike anything I had ever seen and truly is the embodiment of the modern ideal of a portable piano. Weighing in at 130 lbs (59 kg), it disassembles even further into components to become even more portable and even fits into the trunk of a car! Continue Reading
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The Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price (MSRP) are prices established by each company, presented in $USD. The MSRP is the “List Price” of a piano. This is not the sale price of the piano but rather, the highest price the piano will be listed at. Often, stores may discount pianos heavily and so it is a good idea to shop locally to find what price a piano may be purchased for. By clicking on any of the price points below, you’ll be able to see all of the piano models available in that particular price range.
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If you’re looking for the lineup of current models from a particular brand, simply click on the corresponding logo below. These brands represent the largest contingency of manufacturers in the world. Each piano maker has a different signature in methods of piano making and subsequently each brand offers something different musically. Combined, they represent hundreds of thousands of pianos made annually.
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There are 4 common sizes of upright pianos and 6 categories of grand sizes available. For a detailed description of each size, click on the desired size of piano. Upright pianos are qualified by height and grand pianos are measured by length. Assuming that most pianos have 88 standard-sized keys, piano width is similar. Depth of upright pianos range from 21″ to 27″ (52cm-67cm).
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