CNN

‘It’s kaputt.’ Movers accidentally drop virtuoso’s one-of-a-kind $194,000 piano

An extremely rare, $194,000 grand piano was smashed when movers dropped it while taking it out of a recording studio, Canadian virtuoso Angela Hewitt has revealed. Hewitt, one of the world’s leading ...
The Economist

Piano nobile

IN 1980 a Roman engineer and pianist, Paolo Fazioli, made what most of his friends considered a foolish decision. He opened a piano factory, and not one making cheap pianos for children. Mr Fazioli ...
The New York Times

Rare Piano Destroyed During Move Is Now in ‘Piano Heaven’ (Hopefully)

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Movers dropped Angela Hewitt’s Fazioli concert grand piano — the only one of its kind in the world — as they were taking it out of a studio, the ...
The Washington Post

World-famous pianist’s magnificent, $200,000 piano dropped and destroyed by movers

In a Berlin recording studio, on a grand piano stretching more than nine feet long, Angela Hewitt wrapped up her latest set of Beethoven pieces for a forthcoming CD and headed to the control room to ...
NJ.com

Union County Performng Arts Center in Rahway to unveil new Fazioli Grand Piano

RAHWAY — A ceremony to celebrate the arrival of the City of Rahway's new Fazioli Grand Piano for the Union County Performing Arts Center will take place Sunday, Feb. 21, at 4 p.m. at the UPCAC Studio ...
Post-Bulletin

'Absolutely beautiful' new piano donated to Austin Public Schools

AUSTIN — Austin High School choir teacher Kalle Akkerman is thrilled with his new instrument. Well, the instrument, a Fazioli F308 Concert Grand Piano, belongs to the school district, thanks to a ...