![]() The Fandrich & Sons piano company of Stanwood, Washington was set up to produce pianos with the "Fandrich vertical action", a new kind of piano action developed by Darrell Fandrich and Chris Trivelas. The Web sites of these manufacturers appear at the end.įor clarification of the various parts of the piano mentioned below, see the Wikipedia article piano. The discussion below is organized according to some innovative contemporary piano manufacturers and the inventions with which they are associated. Any innovative piano must therefore compete in the market of musical taste against formidable existing pianos. Nineteenth century piano innovation was, moreover, financed by a far more robust piano market than exists today.Ī final issue is that the modern concert grand, 16th-century technology though it is, already sounds very good indeed in the opinion of many listeners (that is, when it is made by the finest makers and skillfully adjusted and tuned). This challenge pits the modern piano designer against some of the finest engineering minds of the nineteenth century, an era when pianos represented some of the most sophisticated of all technological achievements. But in a sense, it is a far greater challenge to improve the piano in its own terms, as a mechanical/acoustic device. ![]() Of course, digital technology "has" been incorporated into pianos, and this innovation is discussed below. In the early 21st century, the obvious way to raise the technological level of any mechanical device is to use digital technology to control it (compare the mid 19th century, where the obvious route was to make some of its parts from steel e.g. Yet piano manufacturers, especially the smaller ones, are still experimenting with ways to build better pianos. Piano construction is by now a rather conservative area most of the technological advances were made by about 1500, and indeed it is possible that some contemporary piano buyers might actually be suspicious of pianos that are made differently from the older kind. This article covers a number of innovations from recent times in the building of pianos. ![]()
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