‘This is not a Beethoven B flat,” announced the renowned pianist Artur Schnabel. It was 1947, and he was in the basement of the Steinway building in New York, where concert pianists come to choose the instrument they’ll use in … Read
Steinway Model B – Dimensions
Dimensions Height Length 6′ 11″ (211 cm) Width 58″ (148 cm) Depth Net Weight 760 pounds (345 kg) Encasement Furniture Ebonized or Crown Jewel Collection veneer. Panel Stock Quarter-sawn poplar corewood crossbanded and face veneered. Solids Ebonized birch, Mahogany, Walnut … Read
Steinway Model B – Technical Specifications and Info
Rim Made entirely from hard rock maple; 16 laminations; continuous bent, both inner & outer form one single rim; unequaled strength & stability. Thickness: 2 3/4″ (6.99 cm) Braces 4 solid spruce with a volume of 2,265 cu. in. (37,117cm3); … Read
Steinway Model B – Overview
For more than a century and a half, the world’s most accomplished pianists have preferred to express their musical genius on Steinway & Sons pianos. The list includes the giants in classical, jazz, and popular music; the men and women … Read
Conception of the Steinway Model D Concert Grand
In 1880, Steinway began producing their small Model A with a laminated maple cabinet, creating the modern “rim” case: Very long, thin (3.5 mm) planks of maple were slathered with hide glue, bent around a form, clamped together and allowed … Read
Steinway’s Custom Work
Steinway’s manufacturing methods are careful and traditional, but they are not primitive. In the rim-bending room, where a century ago the use of hot animal glue required that grand- piano rims remain locked in their presses for the better part … Read
Making a Steinway Model D Concert Grand
The Steinway & Sons piano company, founded in a Manhattan loft in 1853 by a German immigrant named Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg and his sons, is based today on a ten-acre factory site in the northwestern corner of Queens, New York, … Read
Steinway Model D – Made of Wood, Glue and Metal
The wood that is transformed into a Steinway model D is of several different kinds, each with its own characteristics and purposes. Yellow poplar, which is soft and relatively cheap, is used as the “core wood” of such fiat, tablelike … Read
Steinway Model D – Dimensions
Dimensions Height Length 8′ 11-3/4″ (274 cm) Width 61 1/4″ (156 cm) Depth Net Weight 990 pounds (450 kg) Encasement Furniture Ebonized or Crown Jewel Collection veneer. Panel Stock Quarter-sawn poplar corewood crossbanded and face veneered. Solids Ebonized birch Legs … Read
Steinway Model D – Technical Specifications
Rim Made entirely from hard rock maple; 18 laminations; continuous bent, both inner & outer form one single rim; unequaled strength & stability. Thickness: 3 1/4″ (8.26 cm) Braces 5 solid spruce with a volume of 4,052 cu. in. (66,400cm3); … Read