The Signature series of Wilh. Steinberg pianos are designed and handcrafted in their factory in Eisenberg, Germany. The Signature series was developed and introduced in 2015 following design improvements and optimisations. The finest materials are used by skilled craftsmen to produce instruments with an exhilarating sound quality and intense tonal properties.
The largest upright in the Signature series, the S130 is a truly impressive piano. It is remarkable in its ability to offer a rich, full tone but to remain balanced and measured in its performance. The bass is powerful and resonant but not overbearing, it graduates beautifully into the middle section which, in turn blends effortlessly into the treble. A truly beautiful hand-crafted German piano of the highest quality.
A beautifully crafted piano that exudes quality and refinement. The tonal character is bright and lively without being in any way harsh. The skill of the German craftsman is evident in the crisp and resonant voice of this piano. As with all Signature series uprights the touch is beautifully weighted and precise giving the player superb control over musical dynamics.
RRP 12,290 In ShowroomAs with all Signature series pianos the fine quality of this piano is evident from the first note played. This piano has a beautiful, sweet, and enduring tone with a wonderful singing quality. A beautifully weighted action contributes to a playing experience of the highest quality.
As with all Signature series pianos the fine quality of this piano is evident from the first note played. This piano has a beautiful, sweet, and enduring tone with a wonderful singing quality. A beautifully weighted action contributes to a playing experience of the highest quality.
This beautiful, impressive grand piano is an exceptional instrument. As with the upright pianos in the Signature series, the quality of the piano is evident from the first note played. There is a solidity and reassuring quality to the action which has long been associated with fine German pianos. The texture of the key coverings is pleasing and further enhances the feeling of quality when playing. The tonal quality is of a high quality with an effortless transition from powerful bass to singing treble. This is a piano worthy of serious consideration at the highest level of quality and performance.
Wilh. Steinberg pianos feature top quality German hammer felt from Renner. Renner select the best wool from the happiest sheep to ensure the finest quality wool. Every hammer is voiced by the experienced German technicians at the Eisneberg factory In Germany to ensure the best tonal performance.
The upright and grand pianos of the Performance series are based on the German WILH.STEINBERG design, crafting techniques and technologies and manufactured under authorisation by the Yichang Jinboa Musical Instrument manufacturing co. ltd, China.
Every performance series piano is delivered to the German factory where it is held in storage. Following an appropriate settling period each piano is tuned, regulated and voiced by the German master technicians in the WILH.STEINBERG factory.
This the the largest model in the impressive Performance series line. The solid build quality and expressive musical performance offer a piano that is exceptional value. The rich and resonant tone is a testament to the skill and care taken by the voicing craftsmen in Germany to create an authentic European sound.
The Impressive quality and characteristics of the Performance series is further shown in the grand pianos. Every instrument has benefitted from the skilled set up and voicing from the master technicians in Germany. The touch response is light and accurate, it has a feeling of solidity that immediately inspires trust in the piano. The German voicing experts have achieved a characterful voice that has a crispness of tone yet with no hint of being harsh.
The Grand is a VST Instrument devoted to providing the sound of a ConcertGrand Piano in the self-contained, pristine environment of your computer.Its sounds are based on the sampled/modeled sounds of a real Grand Piano. As aresult it takes up over 1.3 GB of disk space! It also uses a large chunkof RAM (you can adjust how much sample is streamed from disk or loadedinto RAM). If you want that real piano sound instantly accessible andflexible enough to use in your computer sequencer, The Grand is anaffordable good deal! It is available for both Mac and PC platforms with VST 2.0compatible host applications.
The initial screen you see when you open an instance of The Grand is ofthe keyboard. You can click on the keys to play notes (or use MIDIinstruments connected to your computer). The Grand's 88-key keyboardemulates many of the characteristics of an acoustic piano. There arethree weighted key settings to choose from and adjustable velocitycurves individually adaptable to suit your personal playing style.Authentic functionality of sustain and sostenuto pedals is also built-inwith real re-pedaling resonance.
There are a couple options for shaping your Grand Piano sounds. There arefour basic Piano sounds: Natural, Soft, Bright, and Hard. A simpleAmbience effect can be dialed-in, adding a little reverb to sweeten' thesound. There are also hammer and string release parameters forauthentic-sounding damper and hammer action, adjustable polyphony andtuning, tempered and grand concert piano tunings. The Grand succeeds increating a darn good piano, rich in sound and with enougheditability to give you a broad range of feeling. Unfortunately,The Grand does not attempt to go beyond emulating the piano sound, sothere are no LFOs, no filters, nothing that can really modulate orchange the sound. Just rich, clean piano sounds instantly available andwith simple programmability. It's a great tool for composers who don'twant to deal with the troubles and expense of a real concert grand,and it's easier to use than any sampler.
When a grand piano is needed, and an advanced musician is involved, it's often prudent to consider larger sizes beyond a baby grand. Think of the "160 Stockholm" as the performance class to the "Sovereign". Similar in every way except size and power, the "160 Stockholm" (164 cm / 5'5") will never hold you captive musically. If you are considering a performance grand for a smaller space, make sure you have a chance to experience this piano. Its [entirely competitive] action and [much richer] tone will win you over with the first encounter.
Our aim was to achieve a sound that would "sing" brightly. A unique aspect to the CX Series is the focus that we applied to those areas that are vital to a piano, such as the construction of the soundboard, the tone that emerges from it, and the exterior of the instrument. Of all the lineup changes that Yamaha pianos have undergone over the last couple of decades, this series represents the most broad-reaching improvement, and as a result the musciality of these pianos has been greatly enhanced.
Basically, we want to provide instruments that want to sing, instruments that want to deliver sound. Rather than instruments that you really have to work to get a sound out of, we wanted to craft pianos with a soundboard and body that would actually want to sing, to make sound. In that sense, this soundboard, with its new structure, responds well to any input and we believe that it offers a much broader range of expression in its response.
Next, we had to decide upon what tone we should give this "singing" body, and this soundboard with its superb response. Two of the major factors in this sound were the strings and hammers. For this series, we selected music wire (strings) with beautiful overtones and clean harmonies, good sustain, and a tone that carries. We obtained sheets of felt, which we refer to as "raw cloth," and crafted the piano hammers in Yamaha. The felt used in the CX Series is checked carefully and is extremely resilient, giving it a full, deep tone. The combination of this music wire and hammer felt have further enhanced the uniqueness of CX Series pianos.
A piano is an extremely complex system made up of a large number of parts. Moreover, the sound of a piano is significantly affected by variations in the timber and natural materials from which it is made, and by the conditions in which it is played - even rainy weather will change the way a piano sounds. The sound of a piano will also change depending on who tunes it. When designing a delicate instrument like the piano, which is affected by so many variables, the key is to minimize the effect of factors fuch as the enviornment. It is therefore essential to understand how to address these factors, as well as to possess the craftsmanship and production skills to create instruments that do not vary.
It is also important to evaluate pianos correctly during the development process. This is not something that we do ourselves; instead we have top-flight pianists play them and offer their opinions. This sometimes reveals aspects that we, as developers were not aware of, so we emphasize the accumulation of this information. Making even a single mistake in this process can sometimes result in a piano with many good points receiving a bad evaluation. In order to keep the scope for mistakes at a minimum, I think that it is important to have the technical ability to obtain the same result from a production process - no matter how many times it is carried out - in order to obtain a positive and accurate evaluation of those good points.
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