Comments on: The Fluid Piano – The world’s first multi-cultural Acoustic Piano.

By: c

Fri, 16 Sep 2011 09:35:28 +0000

I did feel the restrictions when I firstly learned piano~ this is just wonderful!!

By: Microtonal Music

Microtonal Music — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 03:03:01 +0000

I don’t think the reference to this being a toy has to be a negative. After all, you play a piano, you don’t work a piano. In any case, it’s the kind of toy I would love to have and play with.

By: John Berg

John Berg — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 05:38:56 +0000

Kaarin,
Your opinion would register more effectively with me if you would cease use of the pejorative “toy” characterization of this instrument. Your choice of that term comes across as pretty snobbish. I wonder what word you would apply to a Fender-Rhodes electronic piano? Or a Mellotron? Or any number of other keyboard innovations over the past 40 years that are used commonly in the world of jazz, rock and world music. Are those “toys” also? But even for those who are acoustice “purissts”, it seems to me that this new instrument is a serious effort at expanding the acoustic realm of tuneful percussion instruments — which is what a piano is. I happen to love the flexibility demonstrated in the demo shown here, and look foward to hearing more.

By: kaarin

kaarin — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 13:38:04 +0000

Hi KenH, good point ;o) … however – at least in my opinion – the development from clavichord to piano was an ‘improvement’. No need to improve a good piano!!! Therefore I repeat:Let a piano be a piano and call this toy something else ;o)

By: Robyn

Robyn — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 18:25:45 +0000

I agree with, “Let the piano, be a piano” and call this instrument something else. I believe a sort of macro-evolution has occurred here, a new species has been developed. This makes the possibilities BEYOND piano, so it really is a whole new animal. The music that would be composed on it will be different with the bending of notes, etc…yes, a marvel, but not a traditional piano. The beauty of that is to be appreciated separately. Changing it so drastically, really makes it something else.

By: Hanna

Hanna — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 13:46:30 +0000

Pretty G! is what my sister would say. I like it -it’s kind of like piano 2.0 well since there was the harpichord and all sorts of pianos invented before until the standard acoustic one. Then came the digital kind. An acoustic that can make a wide range of tonalities is COOL! It’s very unique -the ability to adjust microtonalities and such -still the better question is: who can play this instrument to the breath of musicality it has to offer?

By: felix chimes

felix chimes — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 09:27:55 +0000

well i have 6 pianos and 3 are digital, i could`nt appreciate the utube vidio as it was stop start 7sec off 3 sec on. however if this instrument is based on a concert grand then i want one. The other thing the action ,”can this be moderated”?. as a short note i am the proud owner of the worst digital piano on the planet from China sold in Australia under the name MeloDIC, words cannot describe this heap of junk i bought it on the net. My best digital is a Technics love it. Sorry to rant on .Felix.

By: felix chimes

felix chimes — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 09:07:21 +0000

Hello, i am a piano buff ,i would like to know if this piano is for sale and the current price ,lets say in US$ .I am in South Australia .Hope its on the market. Felix.

By: KenH

KenH — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 23:25:20 +0000

Hey kaarin, if people had the ‘let a piano be a piano” attitude when the first advances in piano making were introduced we’d all still be playing clavichords!

By: Roger Jones, P.Eng, SMIEEE

Roger Jones, P.Eng, SMIEEE — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 22:49:11 +0000

As a western music classical pianist I see only one advantage to this thing – you can tune the piano without tools or pin/pin-block damage and keep it at “concert” pitch over the seasons. Don’t need to pay a tuning tech, either. That said, it’s not cross-strung (obviously) so it’s “long for it’s size” and may sound a bit thin compared to a normal grand of same nominal size, sort of “pre-modern grand” sound. If wanted, this effect could be done more cheaply and effectively as a digital piano, plus a good sound system of course. The various tunings could be refined and stored for the various instruments being emulated. Ingenious, but not for me!