FAZIOLI on the radio in less than 30 minutes!!!!!

[PIANISSIMO PIANOFORTE S.L.]

Hey folks don't miss this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

documentary on BBC Radio 4 about Fazioli pianos
'The Piano Man
Thursday 11 May 2006 11:30-12:00 (Radio 4 FM) THATS NOW!!!!!

Repeated: Monday 15 May 2006 0:15-0:45 (Radio 4 FM)

You can listen to this online sse at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/pip/5km1v/

Musician, composer and actor Philip Pope presents the remarkable story of
Paolo Fazioli, who redesigned the piano and created an instrument to rival
Steinway.

In 1978, Venetian Paolo Fazioli turned his back on the family engineering
business with a crazy ambition: to design a piano from scratch which would
rival the great Steinway Grands. Remarkably, within three years he had
done what no other piano manufacturer had ever done. He had reinvented a
musical instrument and created a different kind of piano. Although the
Fazioli looks like a piano and sounds like a piano, it is virtually a new
kind of instrument and contains thousands of innovations.

This feature explores how Fazioli did it, what the impact has been on the
world of serious music and just what it is that draws so many pianists and
music fans to the sound of these instruments.

Featuring interviews with Paolo Fazioli himself, celebrated concert
pianists and Fazioli devotees Nikolai Demidenko and Mark Swartzentruber,
Gramophone magazine critic Bryce Morrison and Royal College of Music
Professor Ruth Nye, who was immediately moved to tears the first time she
heard the unique timbre of a Fazioli'


It's not often that they talk about pianos on the Media, so I'm quite
looking forward to it :)

Regards,


Patrick Hinves Ballesta
Afinador/Técnico 610442371
PIANISSIMO PIANOFORTE S.L.