Greetings all -- In 2005 David Rubenstein, here in Los Angeles, unveiled his 12' 2" grand piano. See it here: http://www.rubensteinpianos.com/r371details.html And more pictures and details here: http://www.la-ptg.org/rubenstein/ Aside from a very old non functioning prototype in a museum in China, David's piano was the largest piano ever made. Now, a 14 year old kid in New Zealand, Adrian Mann, is making the news as having made the worlds largest piano at 6 meters, (about 18 feet), in length. And he made it over the span of four years in a neighbors barn. Here's the ONLY video available, a local TV news story: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x57kcRdojrY And aside from a couple of photos on Flickr, (http://www.flickr.com/photos/37161992@N06/), one press release that has been re-written about a dozen times, and this one video, there is NO more information about this piano or the creator. The ONLY piece of technical information I have been able to find is this: "When traditional piano-building materials weren't available, he improvised. The spruce used for soundboards wasn't available so Mr Mann cross-cut Canadian Douglas Fir bought from a salvage yard instead. An estimated 85 per cent of the piano is made from recycled materials." Has anyone else on this list heard about this? Does anyone know anything more about this instrument? -- Geoff • Geoff Sykes, RPT • 626-799-7545 • www.ivories52.com <http://www.ivories52.com/> No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.322 / Virus Database: 270.12.4/2081 - Release Date: 04/26/09 09:44:00 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090426/de6730f2/attachment.html>
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