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The A-Pian Grand piano is and old french Gaveau piano. Gaveau was a French piano manufacturer. The company was established in 1847 in Paris and used to be one of the three largest piano makers in France (after Érard and Pleyel). This particular piano was build in 1960 and is reffered to as a "crapaud" ("Petite Grand" in english), which means that it's a little smaller than a "quart de queue" (baby grand). It has a very particular sound, v..

We have been working in collaboration with Lance Herring on this project. The AcademicGrand is a 1963 Steinway D concert grand which has seen countless recitals and concerts over the years where it served as the University of Arkansas' primary concert instrument. The piano has been an inspiration to hundreds of students and visitors, and with being well-maintained and cared for, it's a wonderful instrument with a unique history and classic A..

The AS Piano Collection is a bundle of 5 of our Piano instruments. You save around 40% when buying this bundle. Kawai-EX PRO OldBlackGrand AcademicGrand A-Pian B-Pian This bundle gives you all of the piano sounds that you might need, from the big powerful concert grand, to the old jazz sound and the nice training piano that you might have at home.   ..

The B-Pian Upright is a bad, old, out of tune, mecanically unperfect but still usable upright piano. After watching a movie (we won't say which one) scene with a guy playing on an old upright and hearing what clearly was a 9 foot grand, we decided that it was time to produce that sound everybody knows, the sound of the piano you played on when you started learning the piano, the one that you were at your friends place and is taking dust and th..

Balani is a 2 1/2 octave balafon (or balaphon) with small calabash resonators form Guinea. We decided that this no so rare instrument was worth a sample library especially because it has those "noise generators" in good condition. Most of the time, people remove those because they don't like that noisy effect, but if you listen carefully to some traditional Balafon, you will hear them and we wanted it to be in our library. The other interest..

The E-Pian is a Classic 73 Keys Electric piano from 1972 recorded with the direct output plugged into a tube preamp. The tines were adjusted in a way that very few overtone was present giving this piano more warmness. This particular instrument was in a "normal" condition, which means that it was not properly restored, a few keys were not sounding right (and we sampled it before and after fixing those keys). This might be the rhodes you wi..

The Kawai-EX Pro sample Library is a fabulous, powerfull and bright 9-foot (276cm) KAWAI EX concert grand piano that used to be in the Kennedy center in Washington DC. We worked closely with Lance Herring on this library (this is our second attempt after the AcademicGrand) and decided to give our project a new dimension, we carefully recorded this extraordinary instrument with 3 microphone pairs and state of the art Gear to try and recreate ..

The Mark79 is a Classic 73 Keys Electric piano from 1979 (MarkII) recorded with the direct output plugged into a tube preamp. The MarkII model was issued in 1979 and maor jazz and jazz-rock stars like Chick Corea have made its sound very famous. It really is very different from the MarkI but still has that incredible sound that everybody knows and loves. We wanted to give this instrument something special and to build the library in a w..

Everybody keeps on sampling the best and cleanest piano ever! here is a completely different approach. We sampled an old Pleyel Grand Piano (F-71240 model from 1928) with vintage gear like a studer console and tube microphones, it has the rich and warm sound of the old jazz/blues or even classical music recordings. The demo songs are performed by Jean-Michel Bernard (former composer for Ray Charles, film music composer) and Romain Collin,..

The VibysM is a 3 1/2 octaves Musser concert vibraphone. This is one of the best vibraphone models ever made. It was played with soft mallets during the recording session to capture the maximum of dynamics and the softness of this instrument. The Vibraphone was very popular in the Jazz music of the 50's but somehow got used a lot less since then. Today it is used more and more in popular music as well as modern jazz and even electronic mus..