July 28, 2012 4:22 pm

Saxaccord

Looking for a new way to annoy your neighbors?

I need one of these. You do not understand. I NEED ONE OF THESE.

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July 19, 2012 2:29 pm

newyorker:

Opening today at Bonni Benrubi Gallery, “One Steinway Place” is an exploration of the famed piano factory in Astoria, Queens, by the photographer Christopher Payne. Under the glow of fluorescent lights, raw lumber is bent, pressed, conditioned, and polished into instruments of exacting quality. With more than twelve thousand individual parts, including Canadian maple, Bavarian spruce, and Swedish steel, each piano takes nearly a year to assemble before being subjected to a final hand inspection by Wally Boot, a fifty-year veteran of the factory. Payne was allowed unfettered access to the factory, allowing him to document every step of the process. Click-through for a selection of his work, which is on view through September 19th.

Stunning photos. —Lars

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March 11, 2012 10:27 pm

thedailywhat:

Marketing Campaign of the Day: This brilliant promotion for the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra by photographer Bjoern Ewers shines a perspective-reexamining light on the interiors of musical instruments, which, incidentally, look like they would make rather amazing concert halls.

See the rest here.

[colossal.]

I want to go to there. Check out the link, they also show the inside of a guitar, a flute, and what I assume to be an aerial view of a pipe organ.