- Industry: Musical Equipment
- Number of terms: 919
- Number of blossaries: 0
- 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 piece of cloth that acts as a buffering between metal hardware and surrounding metal or wood.
Industry:Musical equipment
A metal bar attached to the underside of the iron frame of the piano, used in place of an agraffe in the treble notes to hold the strings in place evenly.
Industry:Musical equipment
Small pins that form the precision pivot points of moving action parts. There are over 600 center pins in a piano action.
Industry:Musical equipment
An intimate and quiet-sounding stringed keyboard instrument in use from approximately 1500 until the early 1800's and again in recent years.
Industry:Musical equipment
The term for lumber with tiny, or non existent, pores. Can be finished without the use of pore fillers.
Industry:Musical equipment
The process of staining by which the shade of the wood of the various parts of a natural-finish piano are made to match.
Industry:Musical equipment
A slight dome given to the soundboard in order to withstand the down-bearing pressure of the strings and maintain its proper shape.
Industry:Musical equipment
A felt cushion attached to a lever assembly that stops the vibration of the strings.
Industry:Musical equipment
A thinning of the edges of the soundboard so as to increase the potential for vibration where it attaches to the case.
Industry:Musical equipment
