A new piano
Here is
the piano of my dreams:
a lightweight, vertical
grand piano.
The Standing Grand.
I am working on creating a ‘Standing Grand’: a vertical grand piano. I want to tackle the space limitations of modern homes: our piano offers ‘the sound of a grand in the space of an upright’©. It will be easy to move around, radically space saving, affordable and lightweight.
I invented the new piano shape through my own style of playing the strings as well as the keys. So, through its revolutionary design, this piano also making every part of every string available to the performer. These ‘inside piano sounds’, used by composers for over 100 years, mean new sounds can be added to the piano’s palette.
The first wave of work was done through Future Piano which I founded in 2017, to lead an Innovate-UK funded Design Foundations research phase. We completed a prototype employing aerospace composites technology.
Contact me for updates on future steps.