I am not expecting anything special or new. The same was done by Fazioli and Schimmel in last two years - the former over one month of ads only to prezent another piano in their lineup, Schimmel also long ads - just to show piano with black painted rim.
This is what in piano industry is called "special and new".
Really new would be implementing double escapement in upright action, I know that Ritmuller purchased patent from Fandrich for that.
Also make upright pianos sounding more open, maybe people in piano companies should do some serious acoustic analysis how in this form do not close the whole sound inside.
And in the same time making them much less in your face, which usually is a fact of placing pianos back to back with a wall.
Magnets have been in the industry since dozens of years, and have somehow mixed opinions.
Another one - make the music sheet rest at the height of grand pianos or at least in the middle between upright and grand height, with some clever engineering.
There is a lot that can be done to pianos, but perhaps the market is to small and they have not enough money to conduct all those acoustic tests, make 20 versions and so on.
The same goes for digitals - first of all samples. Second - speaker system. Besides Roland top LX pianos, all other are sad joke. Cheap quality drivers with as minimal diameter as possible. They think that they customer are deaf or so, I don't know.
The history of acoustic-electric pianos is very old - like 50 years? Yamaha CP70, which still costs a lot of money.
Yamaha surely have all the needed means inside their company - buy we should ask do they want to do it, or they just do as minimal as possible in order to show acoustics supremacy (talking about digital now). Casio I think too.
