by Howard Kessler | Jul 15, 2021 |
Broadly speaking, “hybrid pianos” are keyboard instruments made from a combination of electronic parts taken from digital pianos and mechanical parts taken from traditional acoustic pianos. The resulting instruments deliver the convenience and excitement of modern...
by Howard Kessler | May 15, 2021 |
If you’ve ever played Guitar Hero; tried Dance, Dance, Revolution; or followed “the bouncing ball” while singing karaoke, you know how easy it is to rock along with your favorite songs. Now imagine your PIANO can do that! It’s true. With the...
by Sonja Lynne | Apr 15, 2021 |
The piano manufacturing industry has long been challenged with producing pianos that will hold up well under institutional usage. Unlike the average home piano owner, K-12 schools, colleges, universities, and houses of worship use their pianos many hours daily. They...
by James Harding | Apr 2, 2021 |
After four years of music ministry training in college and over a decade leading children, youth, and adults in worship at a variety of different churches, I have seen just about every worship keyboard out there. …and, in all honesty, I haven’t liked any of them. The...
by Howard Kessler | Mar 1, 2021 |
Before we can understand how a digital piano (a piano that uses electricity) gets its sound, we have to first understand how an “acoustic piano” (a traditional piano that does NOT use electricity) produces sound. The rich sound of a traditional grand piano is created...
by Sonja Lynne | Oct 1, 2020 |
When most people think of the Yamaha Disklavier, they think of a player piano or home entertainment instrument. What most folks don’t know is that the world’s premier player piano was designed to be (first and foremost) an educational tool. Introduced in 1982 as the...
