- 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 laminated wooden plank that sits at the keyboard end of the piano in which the tuning pegs are embedded; also know as the pinblock.
Industry:Musical equipment
Process of making adjustments to the action to compensate for changes due to wear and environmental changes.
Industry:Musical equipment
A small assembly of wooden levers, springs, felt, buckskin cushions that is part of the grand piano action. There are 88 repetitions in an action.
Industry:Musical equipment
Wooden bracing glued to the soundboard to strengthen it and support the transmission of sound across the grain.
Industry:Musical equipment
The curved, laminated wooden structural framework that supports the soundboard, iron frame, and keybed, etc., in a grand piano.
Industry:Musical equipment
A scale design in which the ends of the strings (usually muted with cloth) are allowed to vibrate, adding tonal color.
Industry:Musical equipment
The name for the least reflective buff finish available. This finish is found most commonly on the Steinway Crown Jewel pianos.
Industry:Musical equipment
In a piano, the basic layout of the strings, bridge, and hammers relative to one another and to the overall size of the instrument.
Industry:Musical equipment
A complete section of tree trunk that has been sawed into thin pieces of veneer and is shipped as one unit.
Industry:Musical equipment
The mixture of iron ore and composite materials that is melted together and poured into a mould to create a piano's metal frame; also known as cast iron.
Industry:Musical equipment
