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Pleyer Pianos the oldest piano makers are planning of redesigning their new pianos. This piano makers has been around from 1757. It was founded by Ignace Pleyel who is a composer himself and after his death it was taken over by his son Camille. These pianos of very weird design and were smaller in size than the pianos we get these days. Unfortunately it is not doing so well as the Korean and Chinese piano companies have taken over most of the piano business these days. That is why Pleyel has now decided to bring in the new change by recreating a new shape and design to their pianos.
Apparently the new innovative designs will be more attractive to their target audiences and they are hoping to increase their sales from it. Pianos has maintained the similar type of shape for many years and Arnaud Marion the artistic director from Pleyel wants his team to build pianos in an artistic way to attract the eyes of the audience.
This is interesting, he also said that the sales has gone down from 70’s and 80’s by a mile. In 1980’s they used to sell over 40,000 pianos and now they are only selling up to 8,000 pianos each year. It is hard to find if this is because of the old designs they currently hold or because of the competition they are getting from Asian companies.
In this 21st century there are new technologies being introduced every year sometimes even every month, so it is very important to move head to head with these changes and adapt to it. New design changes in instruments have occurred for many years. Just look at the how shape of guitars, keyboard pianos, drums, violin and other instruments have changed from 10 to 20 years ago.
It is good that Pleyer are planning to do a new change, because it one of the recognisable companies in piano world. Many Pleyer resellers and fans are eargerly awaiting this change.
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Posted in Music · April 26th, 2010 · Comments (0)
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Posted in Music · April 25th, 2010 · Comments (0)