Monash University Yamaha CFX Concert Grand Piano Launch
Monash University Yamaha CFX Concert Grand Piano Launch
In July, Monash University Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music celebrated the acquisition of a Yamaha CFX concert grand piano with a piano recital featuring faculty staff.
Tamara Smolyar, Dr. Kenji Fujimura and Professor Tony Gould performed a carefully curated recital, including a recently discovered Rachmaninov work, an improvised prelude, and an exquisitely improvised interpretation of Percy Grainer’s arrangement of a famous Irish melody. The Yamaha CFX exhibited its signature ability to enable artists to express themselves in a range of genres.
The Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music is also celebrating 50 years, and to support the school in “Inspiring music without borders”, it was also announced that Yamaha Music Australia will be the lead donor for the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music 50th Anniversary Scholarship Fund.
The Yamaha CFX concert grand piano spent 19 years in development and was unveiled to the world in 2010. A team of Yamaha design engineers analysed vibrations in the body, soundboard, frame and strings, mapped out the vibration patterns of the different harmonics of every note with CAD design technology and used ultra-high speed photography to see how piano strings react when struck by hammers – all in order to determine the final specifications and create the ultimate tone.
Yamaha congratulates the staff and students of Monash University for acquiring an instrument of such beauty and power.
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