In the 30 years I have been in the piano industry I’ve seen some very challenging times. This is one of them. In all those times it was clear that music beco...

As Ian mentions in the video, opening a brand new piano for the first time is a thrilling process very few people are lucky enough to experience. Watch Ian o...

Kawai Japan has recently announced the release of the NV5, the latest addition to Kawai’s premium NOVUS series of hybrid pianos, and the second instrument in...

The debate about whether piano exams are a broadly positive aspect of piano studies will rage on for as long as there are people who have different learning ...

Date: Thursday 24th October Time: 7:30 pm Place: Ian Burgess-Simpson Pianos - 19 Stibitz Street, Westlake Tickets: R150 Bookings : webtickets.co.za (if not l...

Our Fazioli pianos will be busy for the next couple of months at the following events around the country. If you are interested in finding out more about the...

This month (October 2019) we're lucky enough to have two young pre-owned RX Kawai grand pianos on our showroom floor with almost identical histories. Apart f...

On Wednesday 25th September 2019 we ran a workshop in our Cape Town showroom and workshop looking at the basic technical make-up of acoustic and digital pian...

Earlier this year (2019) Kawai released upgrades to their incredibly popular mid-level digital pianos, namely the CN27 and CN37. The CN27 has been replaced b...

In considering options for a suitable acoustic piano there are 3 main elements to take into account. These directly define piano value and suitability for pu...

In evaluating digital piano options, the main factors in pricing and quality are: 1. Touch. The degree to which a mechanism feels like an acoustic piano is a...

We would like to highlight the great work being done by piano teachers in our community by giving them a special mention in our upcoming newsletters. If you’...

The 16th International Tchaikovsky Competition concluded on June 27th 2019, naming the winners across its six categories. In the customarily much-followed pi...

“I sat atop a small rise in the empty desert refugee camp, looking down over the unmarked graves at the temple I’d spent the past few hours in tuning an old ...