At 08:04 AM 11/18/00 +0000, you wrote: >How about an upright that is 9.84' high and weighs well over two >tons? It's called a "Klavins" after its inventor, Davids Klavins of Bonn, >Germany. >(Interestingly the German word for upright piano is Klavier.) > >It is straight strung, has one continuous bridge, a Renner upright action >and keyboard, and a concert hall constructed specifically for it. The >pianist climbs a flight of stairs to a balcony where he sits at the >keyboard, the action directly in front of him. Were you to photograph >only the portion of the instrument above the balcony, you might almost >think you were looking at only a very large upright. But beneath the >balcony you see another five feet or so of strings, soundboard, bridge, >plate... > >I have a CD of Michael Ponti playing Mussorgskij, Chopin and Liszt on it. >The sound is awesome. When I first heard it, I did not know what >instrument was being played and at first thought it might be a piano, but >certainly not like any piano I had ever heard before. The bass is huge. > >Michael Ponti is quoted as saying "The unique size of the piano has an >overwhelming effect on me. When I sit at the Klavins and play, it seems >incomparably more impressive than anything I have ever experienced before." > >There is a whole page in the CD booklet about what he was trying to >accomplish with the instrument. I believe I was told that he made the >instrument as his project for his German Klavierbauer certification. > >Too bad I can't send some kind of music attachment! If you can, you can email it to me privately. :) >Diane > >Diane Hofstetter >245-M Mount Hermon Rd. >Scotts Valley, CA 95066 >ph 831-438-6222 >fax 831-430-9741 >dianepianotuner@hotmail.com > >_________________________________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. > >Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at >http://profiles.msn.com. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
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