“What I like about the PH Grand Piano and also the smaller ‘Pianette’ which is Poul Henningsen’s design for an upright piano, is the idea that these unconventional piano designs are less intimidating than traditional wooden finished pianos.”
Read More“As a writer and performer of solo piano music, the piano itself is the only tool I use in recording and performance to tell a musical story and convey all of the required emotional nuances. The piano that I play is more than just an instrument: I use the piano how an opera singer uses their voice. The piano becomes an extension of my body: together, the piano and I are ‘as one’.”
Read MoreInside of Aalto’s original Villa Mairea there is a space known as the ‘Piano Room’ where Alvar Aalto’s wife Aino Maria Marsio-Aalto (herself an architect and designer) is said to have enjoyed playing the piano in the home of Aalto’s friends and clients Harry and Maire Gullicksen for whom Villa Mairea was created. The piano inside of Villa Mairea is an original Poul Henningsen designed PH Grand Piano produced in 1930s Denmark.
Read MoreThe Poul Henningsen (PH) designed PH Bow Grand Piano is a radical departure from the expectation of how a wooden cased piano should be presented. It was Poul Henningsen’s innate belief that when designing a piece of furniture form should always follow function and that the practical performance of his creation was of paramount importance. PH also believed that it was possible to redesign many everyday objects and pieces of furniture in such away that not only would they function better but they would also be more aesthetically pleasing. The PH Bow Grand Piano is no exception to this philosophy.
Read MoreAs a supplier of customised fine musical instruments, PH Pianos is always delighted to visit clients following the delivery of their PH Grand Piano as part of the exemplary levels of service provided to PH Grand Piano owners all over the world. In February, PH Pianos Chief Executive Søren Vincents Svendsen was delighted to visit the Hotel Ambassadori in Tbilisi to meet the hotel owners and management team, along with the PH Grand Piano that is now proudly displayed inside the lobby.
Read MoreIn 1939 Poul Henningsen made a design for an upright piano featuring the same signature features as its larger counterpart, the PH Grand Piano. Poul Henningsen’s PH Upright Piano has the same design hallmarks of the PH Grand Piano: fundamental to the shape is a minimal body that is sleek, fluidly shaped and devoid of the hard angles expected of a standard equivalent ‘upright piano’.
Read MoreWhen Poul Henningsen created the PH Grand Piano in 1930, he challenged the concept of how a grand piano should appear. Poul Henningsen observed that the wooden cases of traditional grand pianos restricted the sound and vision of the piano as an instrument and that traditional wooden cased grand pianos were effectively instruments being played ‘inside a box’
Read MoreThe Poul Henningsen designed PH Bow Grand Piano is like no other piano design in the world. Devoid of the sharp angles and the heavy appearance of traditional wooden-cased grand pianos, the PH Bow Grand Piano is a symphony of fluid lines and soft angles that is a feature of it’s unique Danish design. This individual and beautifully elegant exclusive grand piano design is paired with a superior piano action that creates sound of first-class clarity and tone…
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