Alexander Piano

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Adrian Alexander Mann founded Alexander pianos after building the Alexander piano, the longest grand piano in the world. After its completion Adrian naturally went into restoring pianos providing piano tuning, piano restoration and some piano moving services. Alexander pianos started in a small garage in Timaru. Now…

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The Alexander: Why did you build such a long piano?

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It occurred to me that long bass strings sounded better. When I was 14 I asked my piano teacher how long a bass a string would need to be if it had no copper on it at all. The answer was “Adrian the string would be so long it would go on for ever!” so with this in mind I did an experiment where I could find that…