Watch out, A Great Big World, this man’s gorgeous cover of “Say Something” will stun you. A video uploaded to YouTube captures Michael McNamara performing on a Cobourg, Ontario, street piano in Canada. The piano, called “Foxgang Amadeus,” was painted and placed on the streets as part of Cobourg’s “Keys to Our Town” art initiative, […]
Jazz legend Herbie Hancock is delivering this year’s Norton lectures at Harvard. He follows in the footsteps of luminaries like T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, and Igor Stravinsky, and over the course of six lectures he plans to explore the “ethics of jazz.” In an interview with the Boston’s Globe’s Arts section, Hancock explained, “it’s ethics in a […]
Big congrats to Josh Groban for looking out for his fan’s best interest! He seems to only really be interested in sharing his music, and giving back to his fans. The Kimmel Center was wanting to charge an extra $20 per ticket, and Groban felt it would be gouging his fans. So he left! The […]
The Yamaha U1 has a great history, as well as an enormous impact on the piano industry and is still playing a very very big role here at Merriam Pianos, as well as in the rest of the industry. The Yamaha U1 is definitely a 100% Japanese made piano manufactured by the Yamaha Corporation, and […]
The K-3 is a brand-new design from Kawai. It just came out in 2014 following up on it very successful K-3 model. The K-3 and the K 300 are two models that more often than any other piano on earth get compared to the Yamaha U1 and it’s pretty obvious why. Both pianos are from […]
Bartolomeo Cristofori Invented The Piano. So Why Did Everyone Forget About Him? So why do we have to be reminded of Bartolomeo Cristoforis name? After all, there must be a reason pianos arent called Cristoforis. “It’s rare that such an old instrument has so clear an inventor and is so obviously a revelation. So why […]
The Kawai ES7 is not new to the North American digital piano market. In fact, the ES7 has been out for a little more than a year but something keeps its relevant, and something is keeping this piano still one of the hottest digital pianos out there. TONE The first thing that strikes you about […]
Lets take a look at the Kawai K300 upright piano, and most importantly what they’ve done to update the Kawai K300 from the Kawai K-3. A good amount of people who are looking at Kawai Upright pianos these days are very familiar with the K-3 (Kawai’s previous 48 inch piano) and the number one question […]
What makes this digital piano so great? We’re going to start with the touch because of course that’s what stands out about this instrument the most for people when they start researching possibilities in the $2000 -$2500 price range. All of a sudden the Kawai CE220 comes up again and again and everybody […]
Today we’ll be discussing an instrument that has a very personal past to me, the Kawai K15 Continental Console. I grew up with many instruments in my home, but when I graduated from University, the Kawai K15 Continental was actually the very first instrument that ever graced my own home, bought with my own money. I had it […]