My mother is a piano teacher and as a child, I’d often stare into the neat, fascinating row of strings and hammers that made up the instrument’s interior. I also remember wondering about the notes that existed outside the piano — tones I’d heard that could only be made by other instruments. And while I can’t pretend to have any actual musical talent, it’s an experience shared by professional pianist Gergely Bogányi, who could not bridge the gap between the “miraculous” sound in his head and the sounds a piano can actually produce.
The solution, it seems, required more than just tuning and Bogányi soon decided he’d have to custom design a piano to finally find the sound he desired. Assembling a team of designers, engineers, craftsmen and music technicians, Bogányi eventually helped create the Bogányi Piano after a period of ten years. Said to produce “the clearest, boldest, [most] premium sound quality possible,” the one-of-a-kind instrument features a carbon fiber soundboard design that is reportedly weather-proof, which means the piano retains its tone in spite of temperature or humidity. The piano itself also stands on just two legs, “to allow an additional bottom passage for the sound to reach the audience” and can be seen and heard in the teaser trailer featured here.
