Features & Benefits

Designed by Steinway & Sons in collaboration with renowned furniture designer William Faber, the Essex has been created as a tribute to the idea that beautiful piano styles and finishes can and should be possible in every price range. With elegant traditional styling and museum-quality finishes, Essex will be a stunning addition to your home. And it is available in an array of models, sizes, and veneers to fit every décor and every lifestyle.

The Essex incorporates the latest design and engineering enhancements from Steinway’s dedicated research and development team. By utilizing specially engineered materials, large-scale production techniques, and carefully selected manufacturing environments, the Essex is able to deliver a level of musical performance previously unattainable in its price range.

Dimensions

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The Baldwin SD-10 Concert Grand full-size concert grand piano is the world’s finest hand-built instrument. It is Baldwin’s flagship piano and our largest piano; the SD-10 measures 9’ 0” and features the highest level of quality construction and unmatched performance. Every key on this piano conveys the rich and storied heritage of the finest piano makers in the world.

Perfect construction and soaring tone for a lifetime of enjoyment
The SD-10 Concert Grand features a one-piece, continuously-bent rim design constructed entirely of maple. In addition, the soundboard is made of the finest quartersawn spruce available so that you can enjoy wood with a tighter grain pattern and improved uniformity for exceptional tonal characteristics. The piano’s sharp keys are made from genuine African ebony wood with an added radius for a superior feel, and the Baldwin-engineered Renner hammers deliver world-class note-to-note clarity and consistency, while its superior action provides faster key repetition rates, in addition to an increase in dynamic tonal range. The three pedals are traditional — soft, sustain and sustenuto — and constructed from solid brass, and the fallboard utilizes a pneumatic, slow-close mechanism design.

The Baldwin SD-10 Concert Grand is available in either Polished Ebony or Satin Ebony.

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MIDI In/Out
MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) connects the Silent Piano to other keyboards, external modules (like the Yamaha DSR1 Digital Sequencer Recorder) and computers.

Computers
With the simple connection to a computer you can record and print your own music, learn to play the piano and even download music from the internet.

Double Sensor System
The sensor system consists of optical sensors located at each key and hammer. This industry unique feature provides the highest degree of precision and sensitivity. Because these sensors are optical, they have no effect on the feel of the keys as they accurately transmit every nuance of your playing to the digital electronics.

Yamaha QuickEscape™ Action and Piano Mute Rail
When you engage the Piano Mute Rail, the hammers will not strike the strings, allowing you to play MIDI sounds or the onboard digital piano sound without hearing the acoustic piano. The exclusive QuickEscape action mechanism provides a consistent touch in either the piano mute mode or acoustic mode. These two features instantly convert the Silent Piano into the perfect MIDI controller or multi-track recording instrument.

Built-In Digital Piano Sound
The on-board digital piano expands your playing potential. The sound of a Yamaha concert grand is digitally recorded and captured on a powerful 30 megabyte computer chip and available at your fingertips.

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Drawing upon years of intelligent engineering and technical artistry, Kawai has created an exceptional instrument that offers the rich, full-bodied tone of a classic grand in a flexible size. With its resonant tone, classic good looks and advanced Millennium III Action, the GE-30 will be an impressive addition to your home or studio.

Main Features

• Millennium III Action™ with Carbon Fiber

• NEOTEX™ Key Surfaces

• Brass Agraffes for optimum string spacing

• Full Duplex Scale for rich tonal quality

• Full Sostenuto Pedal

• Underfelted Hammers

• Ultra-Slow Fallboard Closing System

• Adjustable, Sliding Music Rack

Information from Kawai

Bösendorfer grand pianos, which are available as models 170, 185, 200, 214, 225, 280 and 290, are not only played at famous concert halls throughout the world, but are also the first choice in the area of music teaching and private music.

Bösendorfer has established high standards in the world of music. The unending richness of the sound and variation of the tones, the unmistakable timbre and enormous potential and dynamic of Bösendorfer grand pianos make these instruments suitable for many different settings. They are played in the intimacy of the home, for teaching music, for soloist performances and as concert instruments for chamber music with a full orchestra.

A Bösendorfer is special

L. Bösendorfer Klavierfabrik GmbH is a magnet.
Whenever pianists are performing in Vienna, they come and visit us. Even when singers like José Carreras and Dianne Reeves are in Vienna, they stop by and look in. This intimate relationship with the music world is the fabric from which the Bösendorfer company is made.

Hallmarks of Bösendorfer grand pianos:
• they are built by hand in Vienna, the music capital of the world
• they are built using the highest possible proportion of sound-spruce
• they have a screwed-on capo d’astro bar in the treble
• they have single stringing
• Bösendorfer’s “resonating box principle”, which views the whole instrument as a cohesive sound unit, produces our uniquely rich tone colour and characteristic singing timbre
• the open wrest-plank ensures excellent tunability and tuning stability due to the optimum fit of the tuning pins in the wrest-plank

Information and image from Bosendorfer Homepage

Every house with a piano it’s a better house because it has a big potential to create harmony with people’s soul through music.

Every house with a piano it’s perfect if the piano it’s in a good shape and has a good tune.

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