While I was looking up some YouTube links for the Releases of Note entry for Lucas Debargue, I discovered he was playing a piano I wasn’t familiar with. It’s a Stephen Paulello piano, a rather beautiful looking large concert grand. So I went looking.
The pianos are designed and built in France, and built to order no less. I’m not sure when I would ever accidentally get a chance to play one although I’ve played one of Chris Maene’s pianos, a couple of Faziolis and one or two of Marcus Hubner’s pianos as well. It would be interesting to try this one too as the sound on the Debargue album is beautiful. But apparently an appointment can be made to play at their workshop. It’s tempting.