Harmonic Generator
Created by Isac Zal, the Harmonic Generator is a new experimental electronic instrument. It consists of five main components:

* 64 piano strings on the outside of the device are chromatically tuned to 32 notes.
* 32 corresponding motors with bristle paint brushes beating the strings at controlled speeds
* a homemade keyboard, played like a piano, controls motors.
* 12 pick-ups that focus on one octave of strings
* a transducer at the end of the instrument that feeds back the sound of the pick-ups into the large resonance hull
Each of the 32 motors, hovering over the chromatically tuned piano strings, rotates a paint brush from 600-2000 revolutions per minute, which stimulates pure harmonic sound. The 12 sound pickups hover over the strings, shooting the sound back into the metal body of the instrument in order to induce harmonic feedback.

The resulting sound of this new instrument can only be described as a symphony inside the belly of a whale!
http://www.oddmusic.com/gallery/om16400.html

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Originally posted by Brian Becroft:
Birdcage Piano
"My friend put an old "Birdcage Piano" in his front yard. "Birdcage" refers to the way the strings are mounted inside."

I SO would have put that front panel and vaneers to better usage!

Chopin by the Lake ...
The above sculpture is located near the Symphony Lake, in Singapore Botanic Gardens. The sculpture is a gift of the people of Poland to Singapore, in memory of music's greatest tone poets.
http://terencecollections.blog...0_05_01_archive.html

Wall Piano
It's a pub in Dundee's Whitehall Crescent. I think it's called MacDaniel's.

This stylish chap gets by without a chair...

Grand Piano in Emerald

A Pic from the devastating Australian floods

"Citrus farmer Bindi Pressler sits on her grand piano in Emerald. This is the second time she has had to clean mud out of her home."

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/ne...frf7l6-1225980757557

Well, I wonder if Bindi will now use her piano action as a wall hanging. Poor thing.

Wall Piano

Krakow's Chopin

"It's a temporary installation (until December.) to celebrate the Chopin Year - they're replicas of Chopin's Pleyel piano, painted by e.g. Karol Radziszewski, Andrzej Pągowski and other artists. "
http://krakowconservationwatch...nother-piece-of.html

Most modern Chopin ever
http://ewainthegarden.blogspot...ern-chopin-ever.html

Stuart MegaGrand - What to do when you are 102...
It is hoped a Newcastle-built piano being played publicly in Australia for the first time tonight, will inspire composers to write more expansive works.
The Stuart and Sons 1.75 metre wide piano has 14 extra keys, so it can cover the full range of human hearing.
Builder, Wayne Stuart says composers have been stuck with the same 88 keys for the past 200 years and he wants to encourage them to push the envelope.
http://cjmoore.blogs.exetel.co...-Ultimate-Piano.html
http://cjmoore.blogs.exetel.co...ded-range-piano.html
http://www.smh.com.au/entertai...-20101020-16ucx.html
http://www.abc.net.au/news/sto...10/10/22/3045311.htm

quote:

Originally posted by Brian Becroft:

PET PIEVE

I can't stand when artists can't even copy the flag correctly on 8th notes! They are not just 'upside down'!

Restoring the Old Girl
This is what they started with, below. There were 52 cat skeletons in the house. When Sally Quinn touched a key on the piano below, the whole thing fell to the ground.
http://restoringtheoldgirl.blogspot.com/