Links

The PTG National web page has links to many outstanding and useful sites: their own web forums, manufacurers, supply houses, and educational sites.  But here are a few piano and music related links that are “off the beaten path" that we think are particularly interesting or unique. Let us know if you have your own favorites and we'll add them.  
- DS & CB
Columbus Symphony upcoming concerts and news.
Promusica concert events, educational outreach and news.
Steinway wrote a detailed diary for much of his life, and the
Smithsonian Institution has made a searchable version of it available.
Tom Harr's pictures of tech tips, instrument restorations,
articles, and more.
Excellent articles about the fundamentals of piano acoustics, published
by the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.
The collection of historical musical instruments at the University of Michigan School of Music. The web site has a virtual tour
including pictures and sound samples.
An extensive list of electric pianos, with some rare and
unusual instruments.
The piano company who answered the question: “What would
happen if we made a piano with plain-wire bass strings?"
_The  Mammoth VCG is a 7' tall vertical piano with a 9' concert
grand string scale.
A compendium of some bizarre home-made instruments, like the
Stalactite organ, the Light Harp, and the Harpsicord made of LEGOs.
Musical on-line exhibits from the Exploratorium science museum
in San Fransisco demonstrating the science of music.
Beautiful old uprights converted to beautiful new uses.
A guy in Iowa decides the best thing to do with his old upright
is to convert it to an aquarium.
  The Columbus Symphony
  Promusica Chamber Orchestra
  Steinway Diary

  Tom Tuner's Flickr Page

  Five Lectures on Piano Acoustics

  The Stearns Collection


  Simon's Hall of Electric Pianos
  The Klavins Piano

  The Mammoth Piano

  Unusual Musical Instruments

  The Exploratorium

  The Upright Furniture Co.
  The Aquiano