A sunny afternoon in my living room with Nikolaj and his piano

Nikolaj came by recently and brought his absolutely gorgeous wooden Keybird piano. This piano was hand-built at the Keybird factory in Copenhagen, and it’s the only one in existence with this particular finish. To top it off, it sounds absolutely incredible – especially in the hands of Nikolaj.

If you don’t know Nikolaj already, he’s one half of the award-winning duo Svaneborg Kardyb, who play beautifully original Scandinavian folk music, inspired by Esbjörn Svensson, Jan Johansson, and modern pianists like Nils Frahm. You should check them out!

We brewed some coffee, mic’ed up the Keybird in my living room on a sunny spring day, and he played a few tracks he’d been tinkering with.