Build Diary

Today was spent crafting a single test key for the action model. Alongside the physical piece, my goal was to establish and test an efficient, repeatable workflow for making the keys entirely by hand. While the key itself was completed today and the result is reasonably nice, it doesn't quite meet …

Anton Walter's fortepiano of around 1795 is one of the most historically significant instruments ever built. Mozart didn't merely play Walter's instruments — he loved them so much that he acquired one for himself. In late 18th-century Vienna, Walter was the most celebrated piano maker of his day, re…