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-Innovations on the Piano.
+====Innovations on the Piano====
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 ==The Beleura Piano==
 [[Wayne Stuart]] and his company Stuart and Sons has released a piano called the Beleura which has a range of 108 notes.
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 ((https://www.stuartandsons.com/108keys.html))\\
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 ==The Fluid Piano==
+Invented by [[Geoffrey Smith]] the Fluid Piano features sliders located near the keyboard that allow each individual string on the piano to be microtonally retuned live while the instrument is being played. From the default central tuning each string on the fluid piano can be detuned down or up a half step, even allowing three adjacent keys to produce the same pitch or two adjacent keys to produce a pitches in reverse order to the rest of the piano.
+((https://www.thefluidpiano.com/the-fluid-piano/index))
 ==Una Corda==
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 ===Pianos with Sustain===
-Several pianos modifications ahve been made to allow the piano to have sustain, mostly from electromechanical means similar to the ebow on the guitar. \\
+Several pianos modifications have been made to allow the piano to have sustain, mostly from electromechanical means similar to the ebow on the guitar. \\
+==The Spectrum Piano==
+((https://www.spectrumpiano.com/instrument))
+==The Electromagnetic Piano==
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 ===Piano Modifications===
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 ==The Mandolin Attachment==
+A mandolin attachment is a way of recreating the "honky tonk" sound found in parlor pianos from the mid 1800s. These attachments are used to modify existing pianos allowing it to be selectively used to alter the timbre of the sound.
-==Piano Typing==
+==Keyboard-2-Keyboard==
+[[John Kovac]] invented a keyboard attachment that converts the action of a qwerty keyboard into the relative locations of keys on a piano. ((https://www.johnkovac.com/collections/musical-gadgets))\\
 ===Experimental Pianos===
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 [[Adrian Alexander Mann]]- Builder of the Alexander Piano, a piano with extended bass strings.\\
 [[Bjorn Perborg]]- builder of a functioning sound sculpture that is a 5 key piano \\
+====NOTES====
+{{tag>[essay instrument history all]}} \\