#TINY PIANO ITALIAN SERIES#
In addition to standard black instruments, the company developed a series of unique art case models to cater to its most exacting customers. The unique Brunei concert grand was built to order for the Sultan of Brunei, featuring inlays of precious stones, mother of pearl and exotic woods. In 1996, a Fazioli was chosen for concerts in the Vienna Musikverein by Ingeborg Baldaszti, Markus Schirmer, Jasminka Stancul and Elisabeth Leonskaya. In June, the F308 model was presented in China, leading to the purchase of one of these instruments by the Beijing Conservatory. In 1995, the F308 model was unveiled at the NAMM Show. In 1993, Indonesian pianist Ananda Sukarlan recorded his first CD, The Pentatonic Connection on the first Fazioli piano in Holland. Fazioli pianos were also chosen for the Gina Bachauer Piano Competition in Salt Lake City. A concert grand piano was installed in the Sydney Town Hall in Australia and its debut performance came in a concert attended by Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating. In the same year, the company displayed at Music China in Shanghai. In 1994, Fazioli Pianoforti attended its first exhibition at the NAMM show in Anaheim, California. Following the expansion and modernization, output hit six units per month in this period. The cooperation with the Zanussi R&D Center led to the optimization of the entire product line: the six improved models (F156, F183, F212, F228, F278, F308), which today still represent the entire Fazioli range, were showcased at the 1988 edition of the Musikmesse Frankfurt. Toward the end of that year, Alfred Brendel chose to perform on Fazioli pianos for his Italian tour.
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Murray Perahia also requested the same model for his concert at the Teatro Goldoni in Venice. Later that year, Lazar Berman played Liszt's Second Concerto on the F308 concert grand at the Carnegie Hall in New York. The prototype of the first F308 received its first public performance in 1987, at the Teatro Comunale in Monfalcone, where French pianist François-Joël Thiollier performed both of Tchaikovsky's piano concertos. The Dutch Rondane Quartet plays on four Fazioli pianos The Fazioli Concert Hall's first concert season was inaugurated by Aldo Ciccolini, who played the instrument which is still standing in the hall: the F278 concert grand nicknamed "Merlin the Magician" by Ciccolini.īy 2006, Fazioli was producing between 120 and 130 pianos per year. Equipped with variable acoustic devices, the hall is ideal for instrument testing, concerts and recordings alike. That same year, the new offices and the Fazioli Concert Hall were completed. In 2004, large orders were placed and production finally exceeded 100 units. In 2001, the new factory edged closer to the target of 100 pianos per year. The new facility includes a laboratory for acoustic research and a concert hall in which new instruments can be tested. In 1998, the company purchased an area of approximately 14,000 square meters (150,000 sq ft) next to the existing factory, leading to the construction of a new plant capable of producing approximately 150 instruments per year. Alongside this project, work began on a new model to complement the existing line, the medium-size F212 with a length of 212 cm. The demand for an instrument having even greater power and richness of tone, for use in large concert halls, inspired the concept of the F308 model, which is presently the longest piano available on the market. A number of important concert halls purchased the F278 concert grand piano, and the firm started exporting to major European countries and the United States. Initial success followed in 19 when pianists including Aldo Ciccolini, Alfred Brendel, Martha Argerich, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Lazar Berman, Nikita Magaloff, Michel Beroff, Annie Fischer, Louis Lortie and many others began to play on Fazioli pianos. In 1983, the company began collaborating with Zeltron (Zanussi Institute for Research) with the aim of further improving tonal quality. The production area within the MIM factory was subsequently expanded to 600 square meters (6,500 sq ft) increasing production to two pianos per month. In February 1982, all four models were exhibited at the Musikmesse Frankfurt. In the latter half of the year, work began on the prototype of the F228 model. The prototype of the F183 model was completed in June 1980, followed at the end of the year by the prototypes of two other models, the F156 and the F278. He was assisted by a small team consisting of Professor Pietro Righini, an expert in musical acoustics, and Professor Guglielmo Giordano, a wood technologist, as well as Virgilio Fazioli and Lino Tiveron.
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In 1979, Fazioli started designing the first prototype for a baby grand piano.