Ravenscroft pianos are meticulously designed and assembled by hand in Arizona by Michael Spreeman and his team to exacting standards. This piano can whisper or shout, cry or laugh it is your extension of your own imagination and is therefore both literal and symbolic. The Ravenscroft Model 275 has unparalleled dynamic response and tone that will handle a wide variety of applications such as Jazz, Pop, and Classical and just about anything else you can imagine. The words are liquid, athletic, and catholic: Athletic in its physical potential, catholic in its intimacy, and liquid in its sensuality. Duration? Power? Coherence? The instrument and I are forming a symbiotic relationship where we are servants to each other, one cajoling the other towards more expression. This damn instrument is trancing me out and creating a kind of aesthetic promiscuity: I don't want to stop! I'm seduced past my own emotional limitations. Which is provoking or evoking? The range of expression is phenomenal: My Schubert sings endlessly, the Liszt thunders with dignity, and the ragtime dances with no need for a bowtie. I can't tell whether the piano is caressing me or I'm caressing the piano. VI Labs Ravenscroft 275 Vs Spectrasonics Keyscape C7. The Ravenscroft/Spreeman piano does this and more. I had come over from the Roland room just across the hall and after having spent quite some time playing the Roland V-Piano the Ravenscroft/VPC1 combo was like night and day. Like many, I too have sought, lusted after, and courted many a fine piano in the search for an instrument that can speak my feelings.
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