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Futuristic Hungarian piano has lift-off
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Budapest, January 20 (MTI) – Is it a bird, a plane or an exotic supercar? A new Hungarian-developed concert piano, developed under the inspiration of Kossuth Prize-winning pianist Gergely Boganyi, was presented to the press in Budapest on Tuesday.
The sleek, futuristic Zengafons piano, which would perhaps not look out of place on the set of Star Wars, will make its public debut at the Budapest Academy of Music on Wednesday.
Among its novelties is that its sound board — which is made of a multilayered composite rather than wood — and casing are suspended in the air thanks to a cantilevered construction beneath the keyboard.
Musicologist Andras Batta said the Boganyi piano “is rooted in the Lisztian tradition but points to the future.”
To illustrate the piano’s sound, Boganyi performed two Debussy pieces, followed by a short recital by four-time Grammy nominee US jazz pianist Gerald Clayton.