Hasta La Ideas

Redesigning a grand piano is pretty ballsy. The form factor and overall lines are pretty firmly entrenched, and the types of people who’ll pony up for one aren’t known for their embrace of radical redesigns. Then there’s the challenge of trying to break the lines already seared in your head from viewing an object with such an established form.

Still, I do believe Polish designer Robert Majkut has pulled it off with his Whaletone Piano. Using the unlikely inspiration of an imprecise dream he had after a daytime whale viewing, Majkut set to work:

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