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: upright piano
- Brand: Steinway & Sons
- Serial number: 96625
- Date of manufacture: 1900
- Height: 137 cm
- Number of keys: 88
- Number of pedals: 2
CABINET
RESTORATION RANGE OF THE CABINET HAS BEEN DESCRIBED BELOW:
- Disassembling of the instrument
- Basic carpentry work prior to actual case finishing
- Case varnishing in transparent mat – closed surface pores with 30% gloss
- New sophisticated brass fallboard logo (regular size)
- Hardware brass coating
- New piano lock
- Re-veneering of the entire piano
- Flame mahogany veneer – used for re-veneering of elements
- Side varnishing (inside) in transparent mat
- Leather on music desk
- New red fallboard felt
ACOUSTIC PART
RESTORATION RANGE OF THE ACOUSTIC PART HAS BEEN DESCRIBED BELOW:
- Soundboard bleaching
- Soundboard restoration and varnishing in semi-gloss
- Soundboard restoration and varnishing in gloss – bottom side
- New bridge caps – 4 sections
- Bridge caps with graphite
- New bass strings of Heller
- New steel strings – Röslau
- New pin block – plywood
- New nickel tuning pins
- Iron frame restoration and varnishing in Steinway & Sons color
- Iron frame finishing in mat
- Frame depiction in black (brand name, serial number etc.)
- Steel string numbering in black
- Hitch pins restoration
- New frame cloths and string bearings – red
ACTION PART
RESTORATION RANGE OF THE ACTION HAS BEEN DESCRIBED BELOW:
- Complete action restoration and regulation (replacing all worn out felts, leathers, cashmeres, and restoration of wooden and metal elements)
- New hammer heads of Abel designed for Steinway & Sons pianos
- New genuine shanks of Steinway & Sons
- New wippens of Renner designed for Steinway & Sons (repetition levers)
- New hammer butts designed for Steinway & Sons pianos
- New damper levers designed for Steinway & Sons pianos
- New damper of Renner with damper buttons of Renner
- Pedal action restoration
- Keyboard restoration with genuine parts of Steinway & Sons
- Keyboard regulation after action regulation
- Key bushing – plywood
- New IVOPLAST key covers
- Sharps restoration
- Subtle voicing
