- Settore: Musical Equipment
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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.
A large, thin, wooden diaphragm that amplifies the vibrations of piano strings.
Industry:Musical equipment
Pianos originally made for and the sold in Japan, then later sold as used pianos in America.
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The middle pedal that sustains only those notes being played at the moment the pedal is pressed.
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The principal segment of a piano's string, whose vibration gives the instrument the greater part of its sound.
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The mallet that strikes the piano strings, made of very dense felt wrapped around a wooden core.
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Piano bears the decal different from the company that actually manufactured the piano.
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The process of reshaping the hammers and removing worn layers of felt.
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An alternate name for the iron frame fastened to the piano's inner rim to which the strings are attached; it enables the strings to be held under tremendous tension.
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A stringed keyboard instrument, forerunner of the piano, first described and still in use.
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