Lid closes on Kemble Pianos

Kemble Pianos, the UK’s last piano manufacturing firm, closed today. Read my comments in today’s Guardian arts blog here.

0 Comments

20th Apr 2025 | 0 Comments

I've been gradually playing through the whole volume of Mozart piano sonatas, and the other day I reached the B flat Sonata, K333....

16th Apr 2025 | 2 Comments

A new series of Channel 4's 'The Piano' has begun. Judge Mika is still there, but Lang Lang has left the show and in his place is the...

11th Apr 2025 | 8 Comments

We went out for lunch yesterday to celebrate the publication of the paperback of Bob's book A Little History of Music. Here's to a...