Paolo Fazioli thinks he’s made a better piano. He “insists that he never wants to make more than 150 instruments annually (so far he hasn’t topped 100), because of the personal attention given each one. ‘The Steinway is a very good piano, but it is not the only way to make a piano, just as there is not only one way to make a car. There used to be many piano makers but after World War II, one piano came to dominate the market and I thought that was ridiculous. I wanted to make a piano in which there is an evenness through all the sections, with a very clean sound, a long sound. Not every pianist will prefer it, but they should have a choice’.”