Friday, September 30, 2011

Steinway and Boston piano offering new and reintroduced grands.

Steinway and Boston piano offering new and reintroduced grands. Steinway & Sons, 1 Steinway PI., Long Mand City, NY 11105; (718) 721-2600; info@steinway.com; www.steinway.com. Visit local dealer for price. For the first time since 1914, Steinway & Sons will build and market its Model A grand piano in the United States. Steinway's six-foot, two-inch Model A, designed by C.E Theodore Steinway, is credited with revolutionizing modern grand-piano design when it was offered for the first time in 1878, just twenty-five years after Steinway & Sons was founded in New York City New York City:see New York, city. New York CityCity (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. . It was then known as the Model A "Parlor" Grand Piano. Steinway's Model A was the first piano to feature solid spruce radial bracing, which reinforces the structure to accommodate 35,000 tons of string tension and the use of longer strings that greatly increase volume and tone. Another feature of the Model A was its one-piece unified rim-case construction, which transfers vibrations efficiently to the entire soundboard. Steinway also has introduced three new Steinway artcase pianos, including the arts-and-crafts-inspired Grove Park grand piano, designed by Joe Sidorowicz. The six-foot, ten-and-a-half-inch Grove Park grand piano was inspired by the Grove Park Inn The Grove Park Inn is a historic resort hotel on the western slope of Sunset Mountain in Asheville, North Carolina. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the hotel is an important example of the Arts and Crafts style. It also features a modern day spa addition. Resort & Spa, which opened in 1913, is a member of the Historic Hotels of America and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places This article is about the U.S. Register. For the National Register of Historic Places in Canada see Canadian Register of Historic Places.The National Register of Historic Places . it is designed with native woods, including American quarter-sawn white-oak veneers, and antique bronze hardware. Also just introduced by Steinway are the Satin Rose and Serenity Artcase grand pianos, both designed by Jeff Nelson. The Satin Rose is designed with a belle epoch motif of floral designs, and musical instruments adorn this Louis XV-inspired piano. It also features a combination of Brazilian rosewood and Ceylon satinwood satinwood,name for a hard and durable wood with a satinlike sheen, much used in cabinetmaking, especially in marquetry. It comes from two tropical trees of the family Rutaceae (rue family). veneers. The Serenity piano reflects a "dancing" leaves marquetry marquetry(mär`kətrē), branch of cabinetwork in which a decorative surface of wood or other substance is glued to an object on a single plane. motif around its perimeter. It includes butterflies and dragonflies made of mother-of-pearl, abalone abalone(ăbəlō`nē), popular name in the United States for a univalve gastropod mollusk of the genus Haliotis, members of which are also called ear shells, or sea ears, as their shape resembles the human ear. and malachite malachite(măl`əkīt), a mineral, the green basic carbonate of copper occurring in crystals of the monoclinic system or (more usually) in masses. It is translucent or opaque; the luster is silky, vitreous, adamantine, or dull. inlays. In addition, Boston Piano Co. has introduced a seven-foot GP-215 grand piano, designed for strong tonal performance while retaining the responsive action and full, rich tones characteristic of the Boston Piano line. The GP-215 features the distinctive wider tail of Boston grand pianos, providing a larger soundboard that produces a bigger sound. Boston Piano is a division of Steinway Musical Instruments Steinway Musical Instruments, Inc. (NYSE:LVB) is a musical instrument manufacturing conglomerate.Through acquisitions and mergers, the company (formerly known as Selmer Industries) has acquired a large number of musical instrument brand names and manufacturing . For more information contact Steinway & Sons.

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