- 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.
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
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 centre 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