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Pianos
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Centre pins
Musical equipment; Pianos
Small pins that form the precision pivot points of moving action parts. There are over 600 centre pins in a piano action.
Clavichord
Musical equipment; Pianos
An intimate and quiet-sounding stringed keyboard instrument in use from approximately 1500 until the early 1800's and again in recent years.
Closed-grained
Musical equipment; Pianos
The term for lumber with tiny, or non existent, pores. Can be finished without the use of pore fillers.
Colour matching
Musical equipment; Pianos
The process of staining by which the shade of the wood of the various parts of a natural-finish piano are made to match.
Crown
Musical equipment; Pianos
A slight dome given to the soundboard in order to withstand the down-bearing pressure of the strings and maintain its proper shape.
Pianoforte
Musical equipment; Pianos
The original name for an early version of the piano, in use from approximately 1700 to 1850.
Piano tuning
Musical equipment; Pianos
Is the act of making minute adjustments to the tensions of the strings of a piano to properly align the intervals between their tones so that the instrument is in tune.
