- Industry: Musical Equipment
- Number of terms: 919
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- Company Profile:
Steinway & Sons, Inc. engages in designing and crafting pianos for concert artists, ensembles, and physicists worldwide. The company was founded in 1853 and is based in Long Island City, New York.
A technical feature in Steinway grand pianos, in which the key balances on a rounded surface, rather than a flat surface.
Industry:Musical equipment
The internal mechanism of a piano, consisting of several thousand moving parts made of a wide variety of materials. action consisting of a system of levers that move a felt hammer to strike the strings when a key is depressed.
Industry:Musical equipment
The adjustment of action parts to their proper specifications.
Industry:Musical equipment
Small brass fittings, with holes through which the strings pass, screwed into the plate of some pianos to keep the strings perfectly spaced.
Industry:Musical equipment
The term for a one-of a-kind, specially decorated or embellished piano; often made by a noted designer or artist.
Industry:Musical equipment
The part of the piano factory where the soundboard and iron frame are installed into the wooden rim of a grand piano.
Industry:Musical equipment
A decorative technique where two pieces of veneer with the same grain formation are placed side by side to obtain a figured pattern.
Industry:Musical equipment
A wooden structure (between the strings and the soundboard) that transmits string vibrations to the soundboard.
Industry:Musical equipment
A small metal pin embedded in the top of the bridge against which the string presses; there are two for every string in a piano.
Industry:Musical equipment
