Schimmel Pegasus Piano

[The One]

Schimmel Pegasus Grand Piano Could Probably Travel Through Time and Space

By Jesus Diaz (http://gizmodo.com/people/jesusdiaz/posts/)

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Looking like it belongs in Jeff Vader's Coruscant bachelor pad, the hand-made Schimmel Pegasus (http://gizmodo.com/tag/schimmel-pegasus/) has an ergonomically curved keyboard, over 200 strings under a total tension of 176,520 newtons, and a key assembly composed of 10,000 pieces. Only 14 were made ten years ago for people like Eddie Murphy, Lenny Kravitz, and granfunkmeister Prince.



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Professor Luigi Colani reimagined the traditional 88 keys and gave the classic grand piano a futuristic organic shape with some virtuoso upgrades. The Pegasus features a ergonomic curved keyboard ( i. e. the keys exhibit a slight curvature ) that encompasses 7 1/4 octaves, a electrically operated hydraulic lid that allows you to control the specific amount of projection desired, a fallboard "soft close" system, the original Schimmel Triplex Scale "CAPE" precision soundboard tri-dimensionally curved and formed with a "high performance" back assembly with tension collector, a Sostenuto pedal (middle pedal), a fully-adjustable integrated black leather upholstered stool extendible in width, height, and distance to the keyboard, and a hard-wearing professional lacquer finish resulting in a grand piano of breathtaking elegance.
The Schimmel Pegasus comes with all this and the guarantee that your skills won't get any closer to Prince's than when you played with your Casiotone.

[joyinrepatition]

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[unique]

i think i was told at paisley that there were only 5 in the USA and it was soemthing like $250,000, so $100,000 is a steal. i got to play a few notes of nothing compares 2 u and when doves cry on prince's one once when it was in the main soundstage, but got asked to get off the stool when it was in the atrium another time