Fine-tuning: composer reinvents the piano

'Fluid' instrument allows pianists to alter sound before or while they playFor a non-pianist, the idea of a microtonally fluid piano might seem either no big deal or baffling. But this weekend a composer will reveal the result of a 10-year mission – nothing less than the reinvention of one of the most important instruments in western music.Geoff Smith believes he has come up with the first multicultural acoustic piano – what he has trademarked as a fluid piano – which allow...

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