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I love Nils Frahm. Will definitely check out your link. As for the Ravenchord, I believe it's just a concept at the moment.

jacquesm 3y ago
I suspected as much because I can think of a couple of action details that are going to be super hard with with geometry but if they can get it to work (or if they already have it working) then that would be a major engineering accomplishment. They talk about it as if it is working. The way I understand it is intended to be an electro-mechnical piano with an electronic keyboard. That removes the linkages at the price of no longer being a purely mechanical instrument, which I'm pretty sure isn't going to sit well with advanced pianists. I've found a video but it looks like a rendering to me and not someone actually playing it.
- mjd 3y ago
  The page says it is electromechanical: > [The hammers etc.] sit on the center spine and are activated by solenoids, a proven technology even used on some Spirio Steinways. I don't know much about pianos but it struck me that they were looking at their shoes when they wrote that.
  - jacquesm 3y ago
    The Spirio only does that during midi playback, normally it is a regular instrument (for some values of regular...).
- gabereiser 3y ago
  The advanced pianists I know are the snobbiest of peoples when it comes to their instrument. A boogie woogie player wouldn’t care but a classical purist would have a heart attack and refuse to play it. I find it interesting and if they can reproduce the feel (as some higher end clavinovas have) then they might have something. The design is definitely striking. The tone and action is what is going to make it last.
  - jacquesm 3y ago
    I have access to a whole bunch of instruments, An older grand, a nice upright and a good quality digital. The latter is the one that gets the most time by far, it's just so much more convenient.
    - gabereiser 3y ago
      Same, a fully weighted digital like a clavinova is just heaven. Put on the headphones and play away without disturbing Mrs. Sally Verner in Apt 2F.

jacquesm 3y ago

I suspected as much because I can think of a couple of action details that are going to be super hard with with geometry but if they can get it to work (or if they already have it working) then that would be a major engineering accomplishment. They talk about it as if it is working. The way I understand it is intended to be an electro-mechnical piano with an electronic keyboard. That removes the linkages at the price of no longer being a purely mechanical instrument, which I'm pretty sure isn't going to sit well with advanced pianists. I've found a video but it looks like a rendering to me and not someone actually playing it.

mjd 3y ago
The page says it is electromechanical: > [The hammers etc.] sit on the center spine and are activated by solenoids, a proven technology even used on some Spirio Steinways. I don't know much about pianos but it struck me that they were looking at their shoes when they wrote that.
- jacquesm 3y ago
  The Spirio only does that during midi playback, normally it is a regular instrument (for some values of regular...).
gabereiser 3y ago
The advanced pianists I know are the snobbiest of peoples when it comes to their instrument. A boogie woogie player wouldn’t care but a classical purist would have a heart attack and refuse to play it. I find it interesting and if they can reproduce the feel (as some higher end clavinovas have) then they might have something. The design is definitely striking. The tone and action is what is going to make it last.
- jacquesm 3y ago
  I have access to a whole bunch of instruments, An older grand, a nice upright and a good quality digital. The latter is the one that gets the most time by far, it's just so much more convenient.
  - gabereiser 3y ago
    Same, a fully weighted digital like a clavinova is just heaven. Put on the headphones and play away without disturbing Mrs. Sally Verner in Apt 2F.