Christopher Greenleaf - The Boston Musical Intelligencer - April 2010
Christopher Greenleaf erklärt die unglaublichen technischen Fähigkeiten von Angelo Fabbrini und warum die Steinway-Flügel aus Pescara einfach viel besser klingen als die Standardversion aus Hamburg.
Christopher Greenleaf erklärt die unglaublichen technischen Fähigkeiten von Angelo Fabbrini und warum die Steinway-Flügel aus Pescara einfach viel besser klingen als die Standardversion aus Hamburg.
Angelo Fabbrini
Thoughts on Hearing Maurizio Pollini’s Hamburg Steinway-Fabbrini in Concert
Maurizio Pollini’s Steinway concert grand reworked by Angelo Fabbrini exhibits exceptionally ravishing tonal and technical characteristics. The fact that this is a piano well outside our modern norm begs a number of questions, among which is, “Why don’t we regularly hear instruments of this subtlety and beauty?”
Maurizio Pollini’s Steinway concert grand reworked by Angelo Fabbrini exhibits exceptionally ravishing tonal and technical characteristics. The fact that this is a piano well outside our modern norm begs a number of questions, among which is, “Why don’t we regularly hear instruments of this subtlety and beauty?”
But first, what goes into the production of a Steinway-Fabbrini concert grand? Italian piano technician and entrepreneur Angelo Fabbrini, from Pescara, Abruzzo, purchases new Steinways from that firm’s celebrated Hamburg atelier and subjects them to minute technical fine-tuning, replaces or substantially rebuilds numerous crucial action components, and reworks the interaction between strings, bridges, and soundboard. The sound of the rebuilt instruments reminds one of the finest surviving pre-1912 Blüthner concert grands and of 19th-century concert instruments by Mason & Hamlin, the 19th-century Boston firm whose pianos were, by a comfortable margin, the highest-priced in this country......
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Barenboim spielt beim Geburtstagkonzert auf Fabbrini-Flügel
Von dem Centennial Grand zum Steinway D-274
