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\"Pam

Pam Chowhan & the Fluid Piano\u2122<\/p><\/div>British composer Geoff Smith has invented a new instrument – The Fluid Piano – an acoustic piano which enables musicians to alter each note individually and separately by precise microtonal intervals per note before or during performance.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026here, at last, is a piano that can easily sit within any musical context in the world, and that opens up new and infinite horizons of expressive possibilities.”<\/em>
\nPam Chowhan, pianist, composer,
\nHead of Planning, London\u2019s Southbank Centre.<\/p>\n

So what makes the Fluid Piano so special?
\nIf you imagine an Acoustic piano with no tuning restrictions, a piano with an immense diversity of \u2018bespoke\u2018 tuning layouts and \u2018indigenous\u2019 scales from around the world (e.g. from Middle Eastern cultures) and a piano that even allows you to alter the tuning whilst playing – or simply to remain in the standard \u2018western\u2019 tuning should you wish \u2013 then you are half way to imagining the Fluid Piano. One of its beauties is that it enables musicians to alter each note individually and separately by precise microtonal intervals per note, before or during performance. This liberates the instrument from the restrictions of \u2018western\u2019 tuning to make the Fluid Piano the first \u2018multi-cultural\u2019 Acoustic piano.<\/p>\n

Feature in BBC News<\/a><\/p>\n

The Guardian:<\/p>\n

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