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Vintage D Tone & DynamicsĬontrols for the layered pads and effects are grouped together on one 'warp' screen. Unlike the original Galaxy Steinway 5.1, this piano does not have built-in surround capability, and there are no microphone position variants: its 24‑bit, chromatically mapped stereo samples were all recorded from one perspective in a studio acoustic. Various mics (including Neumann U47 and KM53 valve microphones) and vintage Neve and Telefunken preamps were used for the recording, after which the samples were created by blending the mic signals with no EQ or compression, paying particular attention to phase coherence. The model sampled here was built 90 years ago in Steinway's Hamburg factory and has allegedly been kept in perfect condition by Bauer Studios' owners.

The Steinway D concert grand is one of the world's most famous and distinguished pianos, with a large (almost nine foot) frame creating a rich, deep sound that smaller instruments can't emulate. Jazz pianist Tobias Dehler was hired for the sampling session and spent five long days performing approximately 2100 samples - an unprecedented example of a jazz player sticking to a simple chart. Musicians of this calibre would not put up with a second‑rate instrument, and the letters of thanks written to the Ludwigsburg studio by Messrs Jarrett and Corea tell their own story. The list of pianists who have played this venerable grand includes such luminaries as Keith Jarrett, Chick Corea, Joe Sample, Abdullah Ibrahim, Carla Bley, Ralph Towner and Richie Beirach, who called it 'the best piano in the world”. Galaxy Instruments now have a new star in their sky - the Galaxy Vintage D, a 1920 Steinway D274 piano housed in Germany's Bauer Studios. A year or so later Baronowsky (now operating under the name of Galaxy Instruments) and Best Service teamed up again to release Galaxy II, a three‑piano package which added a Bösendorfer Imperial 290 and a Blüthner baby grand to the original Steinway 5.1.

(You can read the Sound On Sound March 2006 review at /sos/mar06/articles/sampleshop.htm.) That project was a collaboration between veteran German sound company Best Service and producer/engineer/programmer Uli Baronowsky. The Galaxy range of pianos made its debut a few years back with Galaxy Steinway 5.1, a surround‑ready sampled grand recorded at (you guessed it) Galaxy Studios in Belgium.

Galaxy's new star expands the sampled piano universe.

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