Probably a lot of you have, and on the other hand many others haven’t heard of the new kid on the block - The Estonia Piano.

Andy Quinn Playing an Estonia

According to the Columbus Dispatch, last year the Estonia Piano Factory in Tallinn exported 300 pianos both grands and baby grands, most of them to the united states.

In quality and reputation, Estonia pianos are giving Steinway & Sons a serious challenge. And many discerning musicians say that owning an Estonia piano — almost completely made by hand — is akin to owning a Stradivarius, the iconic violin famous for the high quality of its sound.

“It doesn’t get any better,” said Paul Graves, chief executive officer of Graves Piano & Organ Co.

Chris Foley Points out that it would be interesting and important to know how these piano age. Sounding wonderful in a show room is one thing - sounding great after a few years is quite a different matter.

For those of you who are not familiar with the Pianologist, pianologist is in there own words:

a blog about innovative piano playing. Pianologist consists of 2 pianists - KCLau and Rewsnat. We were coursemates studying Aeronautical Engineering at University Technology of Malaysia and graduated in year 2000. We love playing the piano. Although our playing is fine, but we still learn new things everyday. We will post the stuff we learn, we compose, or improvise in this blog.

here is a Bosa Nova video, and in their blog you can find piano transcripts and general notes for playing bosa nova.

also piano transcription of the dolphin by 7notemode (PDF)

Edward Weiss from Piano Musings recommended listening to Solopianoradio.com, I had never heard of it before so of course I went over to listen, and as he predicts in his post I did listen for quite a while.
what I heard was just a little sweet for my taste, but not unbearably so, and certainly not boring.
Your welome to go over and decide for yourselves.