Virtual Inside-Out Piano

2025

Inside-Out Piano – the grand piano re-invented, giving you unique access to sounds from another world: inside the piano.

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The Inside-Out Piano is a re-shaped Érard grand with the soundboard turned upright, allowing the strings to be exposed and performed with. With this unique virtual instrument, recorded in great detail at her home studio in the British countryside, Sarah explores the multitude of sounds that can be drawn from the strings. Using rubber and glass balls, skewers, magnets, bolts, straws and just her fingers, Sarah’s sound world will draw you into a playful, atmospheric, surprising, dramatic, nature-infused acoustic dimension.

 

Pre-order at Song Athletics now

Song Athletics says:

“Sarah Nicolls explores all the sounds that can be drawn from the strings of the piano. Using rubber and glass balls, skewers, magnets, bolts, straws and just her fingers, Sarah’s sound world will draw you into a playful, atmospheric, surprising, dramatic, nature-infused acoustic dimension. Sarah has also expertly mapped the different sounds onto five keyboards designed to encourage your natural experimentation, blending whale sounds with pops, percussive with long and expansive – each note bringing its own riches.”