This piano is now sold.
The instrument was restored completely including its cabinet, acoustic, action, and keyboard components.
All details regarding the piano and range of restoration can be found below.
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION:
- Type: grand piano
- Brand: Steinway & Sons
- Model: drawing room grand piano
- Serial number: 238508
- Date of manufacture: 1926
- Length: 180 cm
- Number of keys: 88
- Number of pedals: 3
CABINET
RESTORATION RANGE OF THE CABINET HAS BEEN DESCRIBED BELOW:
- Disassembling of the instrument
- Basic carpentry work prior to actual case finishing
- Complete set of square legs
- New lyre
- New music stand with prop
- New music desk
- New fallboard
- New key slip
- New upper lock rail
- New key blocks
- New double lid prop
- New brass fallboard logo (regular size)
- New brass casters for internal mounting
- New brass pedals (3 pieces)
- New modern leg mountings 4 pieces ( 3 legs, 1 lyre)
- New lock
- New brass key ring
- New continuous lid hinge
- New rim lid hinge 2 pieces
- New double lid prop hinge
- New wooden lyre braces
- New adjustable brass pedal rods
- Re-veneering of the entire piano
- European Walnut veneer used to re-veneering
- New lids
ACOUSTIC PART
RESTORATION RANGE OF THE ACOUSTIC PART HAS BEEN DESCRIBED BELOW:
- Soundboard restoration and varnishing in mat
- Soundboard restoration and varnishing in mat bottom side
- New soundboard of Strunz up to 1,8m
- New bridge caps 4 sections
- Bridge caps with graphite
- New bass strings of Heller
- New steel strings Röslau
- New pin block Canadian Maple 38mm
- New nickel tuning pins of Diamant
- Iron frame sanding
- Iron frame restoration and varnishing in Steinway & Sons color
- Iron frame finishing in semi-gloss
- Frame lettering in black (brand name, serial number etc.)
- Steel string numbering in black
- Agraffes restoration (polishing)
- New hitch pins
- New genuine frame felts and string bearings of Steinway & Sons
- New duplex scale 3 pieces
- New nickel-plated frame screws of Steinway & Sons
ACTION PART
RESTORATION RANGE OF THE ACTION HAS BEEN DESCRIBED BELOW:
- Building in and regulation of new Renner action
- New action of Renner
- New hammer heads of Abel designed for Steinway & Sons pianos
- New hammer shanks of Renner
- New wippens of Renner designed for Steinway & Sons
- New capstan screws designed for Steinway & Sons pianos
- New genuine backchecks with wires of Steinway & Sons
- New genuine dampers with wire of Steinway & Sons
- Damper regulation
- New genuine sostenuto action of Steinway & Sons
- New damper action
- New trapwork
- New keyboard of Kluge
- Orchestral voicing
