A virtual instrument may approach the quality of the real thing, but in the case of digitally modeled pianos, there are enormous obstacles to creating a truly faithful reproduction. Think of a piano.

Steinway pianos are crafted one by one in a New York factory. Film director Ben Niles doesn’t mind that his practice piano at home is “an old, beat-up Everett upright a woman was giving away to anyone ...

In our noisy, shrill world, Evan Tublitz is on a mission: to bring a little more harmony, a little less discordance. One piano at a time. He is a registered piano technician. Tublitz (pronounced ...

HOQUIAM -- Delwin Fandrich has long occupied what he jokingly calls the lunatic fringe of the piano world. Like all revolutionaries, he's passionate and bull-headed about the slow march of progress, ...