Steinway & Sons 5’-7” Medium Grand Piano.

  This 1943 Steinway & Sons grand piano is one of the finest musical instruments ever built, in the history of mankind. It is truly a historical piece of Americana. It was built during the golden era of American piano building and Steinway & Sons was the piano that every other was judged by. It is handcrafted and took a full year to build. The Steinway factory held nearly all of the important patents in the industry and the third and fourth-generation Steinway family participated in all of the significant operations of the factory. Modernizing and improving the manufacturing of pianos in the 19-th and 20-th centuries is nearly exclusively the responsibility of the Steinway company. Every consequential classical pianist played them, sometimes exclusively. Steinway has been in every concert hall and opera house in the nation, even to this day. In the world of musical instruments, there are pianos – and then there are Steinway & Sons.

The white Natural keys are authentic ivory and original. The black Sharp keys are lacquered wood and not plastic. We refurbished the core of the instrument and refinished it in a classic ebonized lacquer finish with a red mahogany-wood music rack, fallboard above the keys and inner rim inside the case. The company has a long history dating back into the 19th-century of creating Art-case pianos like this one. The nation’s White-house has a very intricate and regal one with large American Bald-eagles representing the three legs. A quick Google search will reveal pictures of that piano.

The Steinway & Sons piano action with its 12,116 individual and cataloged parts is the vanguard of piano actions. All of their grand piano models have the same number of cataloged action parts. Steinway has held most of the patents issued to piano manufacturers by the US Patent Office for action improvements including the exclusive “Accelerated Action”, which increases the speed of repetition. The patented Tubular Metallic action frame maintains proper alignment of the action parts, unlike other manufacturers that have components that can move out of regulation. The middle pedal is their patented Sostenuto. A proper grand piano action regulation requires 14 separate adjustments per key, so our talented 88 Keys piano technicians have been busy, and this action has been well-regulated and ready now for the next concert performance.

Historically, the model M is Steinway’s most popular model and features the classic “Steinway sound”; having a strong, sustained singing treble, a complex and rich tenor, and a powerful bass, rich in high harmonics. The duration of tone (sustain time) is lengthy, which enables legato phrases to be extended while new counter-point phrases are performed, providing a lush tonal experience. The dynamic range is wide, allowing the pianist to play the softest pianissimos and strongest fortissimos, expressively and emotively. The tonal color or timbre is neither overly mellow and dull or overly bright and tinny. The mid-treble, where most of the melody lines are played “sings” and doesn’t disappear under the background of an accompaniment, partially due to the Steinway patented Duplex scale. It has the power that most pianos aspire to but not the harsh, brash “loudness” that often results. This instrument is suitable for the serious pianist, classical performance venues, houses of worship and many school, teaching and institutional situations.

The inner rim is finished in red mahogany. Come in and behold its beauty!

Excellent condition structurally and aesthetically.