“If you can dream it, we can build it.”
That’s the motto Baldwin proudly asserts with regard to its custom-designed pianos. It’s an audacious claim, to be sure, but two gifted artists―Darrell Jones and Richard Balfour―help make sure dreams do indeed become a reality.
“We’re designing a piano right now that involves tattoos,” says Jones, whose artwork has graced Baldwins since 2005. “It’s for Tommy Lee, the drummer for Mötley Crüe. He wants the piano to match his body, where the tattoos sort of lay on the piano. I’m probably going to paint the piano a flesh color, and then use photographs of his body to strategically place certain parts of it on the piano. That’s typical of the challenges we tackle. It’s all fun, and doing it for someone of his status is really cool.”