"David
Stanwood brings more than technological innovation to the piano. His action system takes any piano,
especially
the great instruments of the world, into unchartered prodigious territory. I have owned a Bosendorfer
Imperial,
Steinway D, and now a vintage Faust Harrison Steinway C. When Mr. Stanwood reconstructed its
action
I was not prepared for the door he had opened to music making. The dynamics and sensitivity of the
piano's
action
are not only more responsive, the range of musical expression is significantly
widened. Each key produces
a
more desired tone that is in exquisite relationship with all the other sounded
notes, chords have more unity and
simultaneous
participation of each note, shifts in mood are facilitated rather than
resisted, subtle micro differences
in
musicality suddenly arise, macro clarity of intended variation are more readily
accessed, and finally, there is an
immediate
entry into the always sought flow experience where musical desire and created
outcome take place as if
the
fingers were in direct communication with the strings. Anyone wanting to go to the furthest
limits of musicality
and
performance can not afford to be without this groundbreaking contribution to
the piano. I now refer to my
instrument
as a "Stanwood-Steinway". It is more than a perfect piano - it is the
best of the past and future of all pianos.
David
Stanwood is a national treasure.
Piano music has entered a new frontier of expression."
Bradford
Keeney, Ph.D.
Co-Founder,
The Keeney Institute for Healing
Professor
and Endowed Chair, University of Louisiana