The Viennese piano factory belongs to the most important piano manufacturers. Wings of have in 19. and 20. Century the development of the piano music accompanies relevant.

The company was created 1828 by Ignaz Attention excited 1900 the imperial wing with 8 Oktaven Tonumfang (from the Subkontra C to the c5), which was built on suggestion of Ferruccio Busoni. With its 290 cm the "imperial" was up to the appearance of the model "308" of the company Fazioli the longest wing manufactured in series and is to today the only piano with 97 keys. The enterprise became later k.u.k. Yard and chamber piano manufacturer grant privilege.

1985 were introduced a prototype of the of computer wing. This instrument became of American engineer Wayne Stahnke in co-operation with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the owner at that time of which develops Kimball international, Inc.. It was offered under license of Stahnke since 1986 as SE290. SE in the type designation stands for Stahnke Electronics, the 290 for the length of the wing. Altogether 33 of these instruments was manufactured. The instrument is equipped with infrared sensors, those

1. the hammer terminal velocity of the 88 tones

2. the time of the notice and releasing a key

3. the position of the pedals

take up accurately. The data of the piano play determined thereby become to external equipment, which so-called black box conveys. This black box is connected with a PC, the data can with a special editor be worked on there. The data edited stored on the PC and/or can be also shown on the wing over mechanics steered by solenoid coils. The black box contains additionally an MIDI interface. The instrument is used on the one hand as composition tool, used on the other hand than reproduction piano.

The model is not in the meantime any longer manufactured, a follow-up instrument is in the development.

Since 1966 belonged to the Kimball international, Inc. in Jasper, Indiana, the USA, until 1996 in long tradition likewise the pianos produced and traditions pflegte.2002 the enterprise by the Bawag entrepreneurial group, a Austrian Finanzdienstleister, was taken over.

Among the most well-known players" Amos the jazz pianist OSCAR Peterson ranks apart from the American Songwriterin tori. Among the classical pianists there is ship and Garrick Ohlsson among other things. Admits for his bad village he affinity is also the Boogie Woogie pianist Axel Zwingenberger.

The typical bad-village-rang out stands meanwhile also as if SAM-polarize (in digitized form) for electronic music production for the order.

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