ElmerJFudd Posted August 22, 2019 Share Posted August 22, 2019 Long strings, big sound board. Small foot print, fraction of the weight. https://www.pianistmagazine.com/news/meet-the-standing-grand-a-brand-new-piano-invention/ Quote Yamaha CP88, Casio PX-560 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Outkaster Posted August 22, 2019 Share Posted August 22, 2019 Looks really strange. Quote "Danny, ci manchi a tutti. La E-Street Band non e' la stessa senza di te. Riposa in pace, fratello" noblevibes.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PianoMan51 Posted August 22, 2019 Share Posted August 22, 2019 But God, where will the wife put a runner and plants? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synthoid Posted August 22, 2019 Share Posted August 22, 2019 Mono or stereo piano? Quote When an eel hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's a Moray. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElmerJFudd Posted August 22, 2019 Author Share Posted August 22, 2019 Strings will be visible and very close in seated position for palming, plucking, raking, strumming, etc. And being generally messed with if you have kids. Quote Yamaha CP88, Casio PX-560 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legatoboy Posted August 22, 2019 Share Posted August 22, 2019 Gets the sound into the room for sure!! Quote CP-50, YC 73, FP-80, PX5-S, NE-5d61, Kurzweil SP6, XK-3, CX-3, Hammond XK-3, Yamaha YUX Upright, '66 B3/Leslie 145/122 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Simons Posted August 22, 2019 Share Posted August 22, 2019 I like it. Quote Yamaha P515 & CK88, Pianoteq, Mainstage, iOS, assorted other stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Beaumont Posted August 22, 2019 Share Posted August 22, 2019 If you get tired of playing the piano, it doubles as a harp. Harpo Marx would have loved it. Quote Boards: Kurzweil SP-6, Roland FA-08, VR-09, DeepMind 12 Modules: Korg Radias, Roland D-05, Bk7-m & Sonic Cell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark_OA Posted August 22, 2019 Share Posted August 22, 2019 Why not turn the body of the piano 90°? You could hang your clothes to dry when not playing ðð»ð¤¦ð»ââï¸ Quote Trumpet player by trade, but fell in love with keys too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill H. Posted August 22, 2019 Share Posted August 22, 2019 [video:youtube] They're looking for investors, and haven't even built a prototype yet. Can't imagine it sounding or playing like a grand piano, and what's the deal with it strung in reverse? Oh well, onward... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Outkaster Posted August 22, 2019 Share Posted August 22, 2019 I can't see it going over with the conservatory crowd. Quote "Danny, ci manchi a tutti. La E-Street Band non e' la stessa senza di te. Riposa in pace, fratello" noblevibes.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Muscara Posted August 22, 2019 Share Posted August 22, 2019 Since a big deal about grand piano is the action working with gravity, I wonder how this one does it. (No, I haven't watched the video or visited the Kickstarter.) Quote "I'm so crazy, I don't know this is impossible! Hoo hoo!" - Daffy Duck "The good news is that once you start piano you never have to worry about getting laid again. More time to practice!" - MOI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElmerJFudd Posted August 22, 2019 Author Share Posted August 22, 2019 Developer knows the grand action is part of the desire to have a grand. Hammers and dampers are behind the strings. I haven"t seen where the modification is, but I"ll presume an energy transfer has been replaced to change direction to vertical. So potentially they"ve kept the feel in tact. Quote Yamaha CP88, Casio PX-560 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Docbop Posted August 22, 2019 Share Posted August 22, 2019 Cool idea now if they can make it at reasonable cost they could have a winner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElmerJFudd Posted August 22, 2019 Author Share Posted August 22, 2019 For grand action in tight space it competes with Yamaha Avant Grand and Kawai Novus. But resonating strings in a wood box is so hard to replicate. Sampling and modeling get you a certain amount of the way there. Would be great to see innovations in omnidirectional amplification. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/futurepiano/the-standing-grand-a-new-light-portable-acoustic-piano?ref=nav_search&result=project&term=The%20Standing%20Piano Quote Yamaha CP88, Casio PX-560 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoken6 Posted August 22, 2019 Share Posted August 22, 2019 Gravity-return action? Joe and Elmer beat me to it, but as soon as I saw this I thought: upright strings = horizontal hammer motion = sprung return action, like in an upright. I'm afraid decades of playing a baby grand at home have spoilt me and I have yet to find an upright action that I would rate as "enjoyable to play". Regards, Mike. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CEB Posted August 22, 2019 Share Posted August 22, 2019 Opened this thread by accident. I just assumed this was about Klavins pianos. But this is something different. Quote "It doesn't have to be difficult to be cool" - Mitch Towne "A great musician can bring tears to your eyes!!! So can a auto Mechanic." - Stokes Hunt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hatricklov Posted August 22, 2019 Share Posted August 22, 2019 I'm not surprised to hear the woman in the video mention Klavins name, considering he's the one who built the Modell 370, which was sampled and sold as The Giant. https://www.houstonpianocompany.com/blog/fun-piano-facts/peculiarities-and-the-macabre/klavins-giant https://www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/keys/the-giant/ Quote MainStage; Hammond SK1-73; Roland XP-80, JV-90, JV-1080, JV-1010, AX-1; Korg microSAMPLER; Boss DR-880; Beat Buddy; Neo Instruments Ventilator; TC Electronic ND-1 Nova Delay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Threadslayer Posted August 22, 2019 Share Posted August 22, 2019 ... they"ve kept the feel in tact. This is my all time favorite self defeating typo and this is only the second time I've ever seen it. The first was on a keyboard forum also. Quote Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. -Mark Twain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElmerJFudd Posted August 22, 2019 Author Share Posted August 22, 2019 ... they"ve kept the feel in tact. This is my all time favorite self defeating typo and this is only the second time I've ever seen it. The first was on a keyboard forum also. I haven"t seen where the modification is, but I"ll presume an energy transfer has been replaced to change direction to vertical. So potentially they"ve kept the feel in tact. Quote Yamaha CP88, Casio PX-560 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Threadslayer Posted August 22, 2019 Share Posted August 22, 2019 ... they"ve kept the feel in tact. This is my all time favorite self defeating typo and this is only the second time I've ever seen it. The first was on a keyboard forum also. I haven"t seen where the modification is, but I"ll presume an energy transfer has been replaced to change direction to vertical. So potentially they"ve kept the feel in tact. The humor is, in point of fact, The word itself is not in_tact Quote Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. -Mark Twain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElmerJFudd Posted August 22, 2019 Author Share Posted August 22, 2019 Ah, I see what you truly mean. The spelling lacks a space between! Quote Yamaha CP88, Casio PX-560 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Real MC Posted August 23, 2019 Share Posted August 23, 2019 That is hardly new. Google giraffe piano, those were made a few hundred years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Williams Posted August 23, 2019 Share Posted August 23, 2019 That is hardly new. Google giraffe piano, those were made a few hundred years ago. Yeah, I was thinking about a space-saving "vertical grand" I saw at (I think) the Edison museum in the 1970s, built in the 1800s. Yeah(2), Vertical strings != grand due to gravity action. Personally I smell a scam. Quote -Tom Williams {First Name} {at} AirNetworking {dot} com PC4-7, PX-5S, AX-Edge, PC361 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VLH Posted August 23, 2019 Share Posted August 23, 2019 Does the standing grand come with the automatic standing ovation feature? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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