{"id":10829,"date":"2011-01-19T22:41:44","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T21:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mono-1en-1560"},"modified":"2011-01-19T22:41:44","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T21:41:44","slug":"102-key-piano-developed-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/2011\/01\/19\/102-key-piano-developed-in-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"102-Key Piano Developed in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\n\tMost pianos have 88 keys. And most great piano music comes from the<br \/>\n\tmiddle of the keyboard \u2014 only rarely do the player\u2019s fingers venture<br \/>\n\tonto the tinkly keys at the top of the keyboard, or the booming bass<br \/>\n\tnotes at the bottom. But a craftsman in Newcastle, New South Wales,<br \/>\n\tAustralia, thinks the instrument has room to grow; and he wants to nudge<br \/>\n\tthe piano out of complacent middle age. He has designed a grand with an<br \/>\n\tunprecedented 102 keys.<\/p>\n<p>\tThe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuartandsons.com\/\">Stuart and Sons<\/a><br \/>\n\tgrand piano has 14 more keys than most, which means its lowest and<br \/>\n\thighest notes live very much on the edge. Its designer, Wayne Stuart,<br \/>\n\tsays a few other grands can play as low as this 102-key model, but none<br \/>\n\tcan play as high.<\/p>\n<p>\t&#8220;I&#8217;d hate to go back to the 88-key piano,&#8221; he says. &#8220;I couldn&#8217;t stand it. It&#8217;s too limited.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\tThe extra notes might lend themselves to great feats of acrobatics, but they&#8217;re not exactly musical. So why have them?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\n\tFor<br \/>\n\tcolor, Stuart says, and resonance. &#8220;There&#8217;s a tremendous amount of<br \/>\n\tenergy in the low-octave notes, and you can hear the power.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/01\/18\/132945634\/musical-innovation-a-grander-grand-piano\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most pianos have 88 keys. And most great piano music comes from the middle of the keyboard \u2014 only rarely do the player\u2019s fingers venture onto the tinkly keys at the top of the keyboard, or the booming bass notes at the bottom. But a craftsman in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, thinks the instrument &#8230; <a title=\"102-Key Piano Developed in Australia\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/2011\/01\/19\/102-key-piano-developed-in-australia\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"koromo_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-blog","koromo-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/10829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/10829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}