Our Crowd-Funding campaign has been a great success. Thank you to all our backers and please share with other enthusiasts of piano, music, design, engineering or invention. The Standing Grand will be light and compact enough to bring the fullness of a grand piano’s sound into modern spaces. The Future Piano team is aiming to significantly reduce the total piano weight by building a hybrid demonstrator, using a combination of traditional (metal and wood) and advanced materials (composites) for the optimum sound, cost and weight ratio. As we build this first piano prototype, we are a step closer to making
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Second part of a series of short videos describing the innovative engineering design features built into the lightweight Future Piano ‘Standing Grand’. In 1675, English scientist Robert Hooke discovered “the true… …manner of arches for building,” which he summarised with a single phrase: “As hangs the flexible line, so but inverted will stand the rigid arch.” Accordingly, a structurally efficient option identified for the ‘Standing Grand’ top frame is an ‘upside-down’ catenary – or in other words a funicular arch.  Click here to watch the video
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This post is the first in a series of Jigsaw Structures video blogs. In this short video we describe the innovative engineering design features built into the lightweight Future Piano. The undisputed “star of the show” is our revolutionary lightweight strut with its remarkable load-bearing capabilities. Strength enough to deal with loads equivalent to 2 London buses! Click here to watch the video.
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