Fluid Piano Launch | World music review

Purcell Room, LondonThe "fluid piano" is a new acoustic instrument that permits the tuning of each note to be changed during performance. Made of light ash, it looks like a narrow grand, but sounds more like a fortepiano, with a brittle timbre that sparkles in the higher registers like a dulcimer. It can be pre-tuned to scales outside the "equal temperament" of western music. Also, the patented "fluid tuning" can be twiddled in real time, giving the pianist the expressive control of a blues guit...

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