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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

There comes a time when you’ll need to get rid of your piano. The reasons vary but include a loss of interest, children having outgrown it, a desire to upgra...

We have been lucky enough to sponsor the Cape Town Eisteddfod for close to a decade, providing performance pianos and award sponsorship to top performing par...

The International Tchaikovsky Competition, one of the most anticipated events in the classical music world, takes place every four years and has been called ...

Ian Burgess-Simpson pianos has supplied various pianos to the Norval foundation since the inception of its concert series. This culminated in sponsoring the ...

Watch Ian react to the new PETROF pianos in our showroom. And the upright pianos are just as good... If you're interested in the arrival of our new PETROF pi...

Steinway has dominated the top end of the piano market for a long time. Recently however, the superiority of their instruments is increasingly being challeng...

The Fazioli F212’s we’ve brought in so far have received rave reviews by the lucky local pianists and teachers who have tried them. Measuring 7ft or 212cm, t...

In this previous post we discussed the value of good quality pianos; how musically and financially it makes sense to invest wisely in an instrument that will...

The term “hybrid piano” is not yet precisely defined by the piano industry. PianoBuyer.com notes that “hybrid typically refers to digital pianos that contain...