Congrats Billie Eilish & FINNEAS!
In 2024 Billie Eilish won an Academy Award for Best Original Song and two Grammy Awards for Song of the Year and Best Song.
The song became the tenth song in history to win both an Academy Award for Best Original Song and a Grammy Award for Song of the Year and Eilish became the youngest person to win two Academy Awards in any category.
Billie Eilish wrote the song "What Was I Made For?" for the soundtrack of the 2023 Barbie movie. It was recorded and performed on a Petrof upright piano.
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One of the most exciting shifts in the piano world right now is the rise of battery-powered, portable pianos. Instruments like Roland’s GO:PIANO88 show that full-sized keybeds, high-quality sound engines, and wireless operation can coexist. Roland
Across the U.S., piano sales have taken a nosedive. A recent CBS News article reported that in 2024, only 17,294 pianos were sold — compared to hundreds of thousands in past decades. CBS News The reason isn’t lack of interest in music; it’s economics, cultural change, and preference shifts. Young people are renting, using digital subscriptions, or choosing digital pianos as introductory tools.
In 2025, one of the most fascinating developments in piano technology is happening at the intersection of artificial intelligence, robotics, and musical expression. A research team recently introduced PANDORA, a diffusion-based policy learning framework that enables robotic hands to play piano pieces with precision and expressive nuance. The system uses language models to measure stylistic quality and musicality, blending human emotion with algorithmic accuracy. arXiv