Imperial Bosendorfer (piano)

Imperial Bosendorfer (piano)

=The Imperial Bosendorfer=The Imperial is the largest model of pianos that Bosendorfer manufactures at 290 centimeters long.

Extra Keys

The Bosendorfer Imperial features 97 keys; a full eight octaves. The extra keys are colored black so that the pianist can tell the normal keys of a 7 1/4 octave piano. They were originally covered with a panel to prevent from accidentally playing the extra notes. This was then removed and replaced with black matte on the keys.

Composers

*Bela Bartok-Piano Concertos No. 2 and 3
*Busoni-Bach transcriptions
*Claude Debussy-La Cathedrale Egloutie
*Modest Mussorgsky-The Great Gates of Kiev
*Maurice Ravel-Scarbo and Jeu d'Eau
*Richard Wagner-Bells of Gral

Notable Owners

*Prince (musician)
*Victor Borge
*Tori Amos
*Valentina Lisitsa
*Franz Liszt

External links

* [http://www.bosendorfer.com]
* [http://www.bosendorferimperial.com] bosendorferimperial.com - lots of pictures and recordings, info about the Imperial Piano


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