Faust Harrison Pianos has opened a 6,000-square-foot showroom and performance center at 322 Blackrock Turnpike in Fairfield.
There are three existing Faust Harrison Pianos facilities in New York, in Westchester County and Manhattan and on Long Island. This is the company”™s first outlet outside New York.
The manager, Erica vanderLinde Feidner, is a former concert pianist who has more than two decades of experience and expertise in piano sales and customer service, according to a statement on the opening.
“Our goal is to be an arts and cultural center in southern Connecticut, offering people the opportunity to experience and purchase great pianos and also to be part of a music community based in the Fairfield area,” Feidner said. “As people walk in and look around our modern, open space with white oak floors, pianos set up in an inviting way along with a relaxed and comfortable listening room, they quickly realize that this is a place to get to know pianos.”
Faust Harrison Pianos was established in 1983 by Sara Faust and bills itself as New York”™s largest piano retailer. “Faust Harrison continues to be ahead of the curve with technological advances in piano instrumentation and music education,” the company said. “Faust Harrison”™s balanced focus on offering the finest in both traditional instruments from the world”™s most sought-after piano manufacturers as well as cutting-edge piano technology is evident in the new two-floor Fairfield center.”
The showroom instruments include a Yamaha Disklavier reproducing piano. Disklaviers can faithfully record and then play back performances with each note and the smallest pedal movement delivered as the pianist originally recorded it. The Fairfield showroom will incorporate it, “offering myriad opportunities in performance and remote music education.”
The center is also equipped with Disklavier TV, which provides access to a variety of streaming performances captured live at top venues and events from around the country, including the Newport Music Festival and the Monterey Jazz Festival.
“This new showroom reflects our company”™s continuing mission to put the customer first, whether by offering the best pianos available, providing the finest piano expertise and service, or being a center for music education and music appreciation for a community,” Sara Faust said.
Art installations, concerts and cultural events are also planned for the new center.
“This incredible new facility highlights Faust Harrison”™s commitment not only to the music marketplace, but also to education and music in general for people of all ages,” said Bob Heller, national sales director, keyboard division, Yamaha Corp. of America. “We”™re eager to see all this center brings to Connecticut, given the positive impact Faust Harrison”™s three other locations have had on communities in New York.”
