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Black baby grand piano steinway signed1/13/2024 The rosewood SteinwayĪctually, the action was done by Steinway. This has been done by a retired Steinway technician. the end result is just as good actually if done properly. the Rollers hammers and centre pins have been replaced as necessary. This is originally bottom and top actions here. But the top and bottom action have been replaced. I don’t know really know too much about the USA. In the UK too sometimes we find it necessary with sets of hammers. In the USA they do a lot of doping hammers. So I will be working on those they are not quite pointed enough in the top end. Sometimes they need to be a bit more pointed. So wonderful hammers, but at the top end they need a lot of voicing. These are excellent hammers but they do need voicing especially in the treble area. And he has to work each set of hammers differently. He was explaining that even two sets of hammers can be very different. Steinway obviously uses Abel and Renner perhaps more Renner then Abel hammers. That will be Renner bottom action with Abel top. The black Steinway model O has had the top and bottom action replaced: Going up through the treble there is a little bit of voicing work needed. More in between an old sound and new style sound. I would call it a slightly more modern sound. This is, is as warm as you can get on a model O Steinway. They are both German Steinways by the way. Let’s compare the tone of the two pianos. There is the original logo on the soundboard, which is rather beautiful. The 1912 Rosewood Steinway does not look like it has needed any shimming at all. This matches the piano superbly and matches the original Steinway finish. Now the insides of the black piano you will see it has been finished off in a slightly different way. As you will see in a minute this is quite a special piano. So both the action and the strings have been replaced. Steinway themselves did some other work on the action. The Steinway technician in 1985 restrung the piano. Steinways previously have done some work on the action. The restoration on the rosewood one was done by Steinway in 1984 and again a Steinway technician in 1995 has done some further work. A sign of a replaced pinblock are the slightly smaller tuning pins. On the black polyester Steinway grand, we have changed the wrest plank. When we fully redo the piano, we usually do. It is not necessary to replace Steinway wrest planks although. the wrest plank underneath has not been replaced. On this rosewood one, they are extremely tight. The thing we want to do, is to check the tuning pin tightness. We could add music holders to the black polyester Stieinway too, it is possible to do without damaging the polyester. That is very useful especially if you have some very thick books to keep the music open. You can see that some book holders have been installed here. Since it has faded the piano would appear darker if we repolish the piano. The whole piano is faded apart from the part that wasn’t exposed. The music stand also has a beautifully figured rosewood and is faded. But we believe we are trying to achieve the highest standard finish. It takes about 70 hours, so it does add a lot to the price. If you did want a full refinish, that is something that we offer. It has devalued the piano slightly that is faded. If you do have a wooden piano it is important to keep it closed. And obviously, underneath where it was not exposed to light. I have mentioned it in other videos as they have been kept open as they have been played. This is such a common thing on wooden pianos. The fading is slightly on this right-hand sideīuy mainly on the top lid which has been folded over. And the polish is almost perfect, although it does have some fading. The case on this Steinway is a lovely figured rosewood. It is actually boxwood inlay. Which was quite commonly done on higher quality Steinway pianos. Now the logo on the Steinway in Rosewood is not brass. We can see that it has original ivory keys, in perfect condition. Now the 1912 Steinway is all original and if we focus in here. The Steinway logo has also been made to look like a modern logo Black polyester, just like a modern piano. They look just right with the new black finish. They have been replaced due to hard wear of the original keytops. But the mechanism inside allows you to do that. It is possible to add a sostenuto pedal to pianos of this age. the third pedal in the middle was added when it was restored. This one is a fully restored Steinway grand. We will start off with this black polyester Steinway. This Steinway was made in 1906 also recently arriving in stock: This Steinway was made in 1912 and is just recently come into stock. This is a comparison between 2 Steinway model O grand pianos.
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