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OFF TO NORTH ISLAND: World's largest piano #2322428 08/31/14 10:47 PM
Joined: May 2001 Posts: 6,574 Bucksport, Maine Piano World OP Piano World Founder - Piano Tuner - Pianist 6000 Post Club Member
OP Piano World Piano World Founder - Piano Tuner - Pianist 6000 Post Club Member Joined: May 2001 Posts: 6,574 Bucksport, Maine	World's largest piano OFF TO NORTH ISLAND: World's largest piano Transporting the world's largest piano on its first North Island trip has been a rewarding challenge for Timaru logistics workers. Piano builder Adrian Mann's 5.7-metre (18.7 feet) piano will be trucked to Auckland this week to be played and displayed in Auckland and Hamilton. Nathan Kippenberger, the Timaru sales manager for transport company Mainfreight said it was the fourth time the company had trucked the piano, "but it's the first time it has gone in a container". Kippenberger said moving the 1.4-tonne instrument presented Mainfreight workers with a puzzle, but figuring out how to safely pack it was all part of the fun. The piano's owner and builder, Adrian Mann, said although he was a bit nervous about how the piano would withstand the trip, he was excited to see his creation visit the city of sails. "It's a bit of a dream come true really." The piano, which is usually housed in a Maungati shed, will spend a month at KBB music store in Auckland before featuring at Auckland Philharmonic Orchestra concerts at the Waitakere Trust Stadium and further displays in Hamilton. If the Auckland trip proved successful, Mann would investigate sending it to Australia, and perhaps America and Germany. "It is a bit of a test run to see how it goes. It might be a bit impossible, but you have got to have dreams." Ad Feedback - The Timaru Herald http://www.stuff.co.nz/timaru-herald/news/10444868/Worlds-largest-piano-off-to-North-Island - Frank B. Original Founder of Piano World Owner of... www.PianoSupplies.com Maine Piano Man My Keyboards: Estonia L-190, Roland RD88, Yamaha P-80, Bilhorn Telescope Organ c 1880, Antique Pump Organ, 1850 concertina, 3 other digital pianos ------------------------- My original piece on BandCamp: https://frankbaxtermrpianoworld.bandcamp.com/releases Me banging out some tunes in the Estonia piano booth at the NAMM show... It's Fun To Play the Piano ... PLEASE Pass It On!

Re: OFF TO NORTH ISLAND: World's largest piano Piano World #2328516 09/17/14 08:20 PM
Joined: Aug 2011 Posts: 2,925 Philadelphia area D Dave B 2000 Post Club Member
Dave B 2000 Post Club Member D Joined: Aug 2011 Posts: 2,925 Philadelphia area	Wow... 18.7 feet is long. More than twice as long as most concert pianos. I'm courious to know if it is strait strung? Is it louder or have longer sustain? Why so big.. Now I'm going to have to google it. Thanks and enjoy. "Imagine it in all its primatic colorings, its counterpart in our souls - our souls that are great pianos whose strings, of honey and of steel, the divisions of the rainbow set twanging, loosing on the air great novels of adventure!" - William Carlos Williams

Re: OFF TO NORTH ISLAND: World's largest piano Piano World #2348370 11/10/14 10:30 PM
Joined: Sep 2014 Posts: 264 Banned chernobieff Full Member
chernobieff Full Member Joined: Sep 2014 Posts: 264 Banned	There is nothing really gain acoustically after 7'6". Sorry, I don't get what the accomplishment was. With such a narrow design I would bet it has a sound similar to fortepianos rather than a modern piano. To me this is a piano version of a King with no clothes. I hope this was learning experience for the builder and that greater things will come.