When Prince took the stage for the final time last Saturday at his Paisley Park complex, he didn’t sing. But he did play a little bit of “Chopsticks” on a new piano he seemed eager to show off.

That custom purple piano was made for Prince through a partnership with Franklin Tennessee-based Yamaha Entertainment Group. It was to be used in the singer’s upcoming “Piano and a Microphone” tour dates, until his sudden death Thursday at age 57.

Yamaha Entertainment Group founder and Vice President Chris Gero said the piano was “a very special and rewarding project for us, dear to our heart and guided in large part by Prince’s genius.”

The “purple present from Yamaha,” as Prince put it, was one of the last things the singer shared on social media, offering what appeared to be a favorable review: “RESOUNDING!”

“So the piano is an acoustical piano, but it also has a tone generation system internally that can go out to a secondary audio source that all the sounds internally are highly modified just for him,” Gero said. “They are EQed (equalized) a certain way. There were certain sounds that were made just specifically for him.”

Prince also wanted the manufacturer to match the color to a couch in his home.

“The color purple was specifically chosen by him to match an item in his house, which was actually made of several different colors of purple that made one specific color of purple,” Gero said.

The company searched everywhere for the exact shade, ultimately painting it with paint used for cars.

Gero said he was surprised to see that Prince tweeted a picture of the piano and then over the weekend unveiled it to an audience at a show at his compound.

“It was really the last big performance he had done publicly in which he unveiled it and he was very proud of it,” Gero said.