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Topic: Meet the new Boganyi piano  (Read 2247 times)

Offline tomk

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Re: Meet the new Boganyi piano
Reply #1 on: January 25, 2015, 05:09:51 PM
I make no comment about the case design: but I see he's claiming to be the first to use a carbon fibre soundboard and to reinvent bridge agraffes, although both have been around for some years in the British-designed Phoenix system. Possibly his bridge agraffes may be a completely different design, but one would need to see the details.

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Re: Meet the new Boganyi piano
Reply #2 on: January 25, 2015, 11:34:10 PM
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2924471/It-s-Bat-piano-Hungarian-musician-reveals-futuristic-design-piano-looks-suited-super-hero-s-Gotham-cave-Royal-Albert-Hall.html

It looks like crap to me... it's got to be the most hideous in terms of it's shape and curves.

Not that the recording quality helped to convey the 'better sound quality' of the piano... Meh...

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Re: Meet the new Boganyi piano
Reply #3 on: January 25, 2015, 11:49:31 PM
I like the look but it's a bit too fat, like an American.  The sound in the video is very metallic.  That's not an improvement at all.

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Re: Meet the new Boganyi piano
Reply #4 on: January 26, 2015, 03:54:33 AM
Looking at it from the side it looks like some kind of giant space toilet...
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