Unique German Upright at a Desirable Price (April 2012)

Posted on Apr 16, 2012 in Featured Products, Piano Blog, Piano of the Month | 0 comments

Perzina GP-122 (48-Inch) Professional Upright

Beauty in tone and cabinetry meets moderate pricing in this offering from Germany’s Perzina Brothers. Originally founded in 1871 the company recently celebrated 140 years in fine piano making. This 48-inch model is adorned in exotic African Bubinga wood combined with traditional Polished Ebony.

Superior grade hammers give it a rich, mellow tone which performs at any dynamic level without distortion. A unique “floating soundboard” design yields surprising power in the bass register by increasing the flexibility (flux) of the board’s movement near the bass bridge – similar to a large speaker cone which floats freely in a suspended coil. The resulting tone makes the Perzina a delight to play!

Other impressive features include all-wood pedal works (eliminates potential for unwanted rattling), slow-close key cover, hand-made European action, deluxe artist bench and world-class Austrian White Spruce soundboard.

Brodmann Professional Edition 6 (February 2012)

Posted on Feb 1, 2012 in Piano Blog, Piano of the Month | 0 comments

Brodmann Professional Edition 6’ 2” Grand

The instrument that outperforms Bösendorfer at a third of the price of a Steinway.

Never before, has a piano offered so much for so little. The Brodmann Professional Edition pianos are comparably priced with the better mid-priced instruments from Yamaha, Kawai and Boston, yet far outperform them. Why? Because none of these pianos have the same quality of materials, or European scale design.

Features that set Brodmann apart from other mid-priced pianos:

• German Duplex Scale from the finest designers in the industry. Pianos with German duplex scale designs sing with much more harmonics than others.
• Top Quality German slow-growth white Austrian spruce soundboard and ribs by Strunz. These soundboards are made from woods that grow in a higher altitude and extremely cold climate. Trees from this region are hundreds of years old, grow slower and produce wood that is exceptionally dense. The more dense the wood, the better tone projection and sustain will be. Strunz soundboards are the choice by most German piano builders because of their superiority.

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Tuning and Adjustment: Piano Care Tip #11

Posted on Jun 6, 2011 in Piano Care Tips | 0 comments

Pianos are delicate instruments which need professional attention periodically. Basically there are two types of professional piano care: tuning and adjustment. Tuning means correcting the pitch of every note by re-tightening the strings. Each piano string is normally stretched to a pressure of about 90 kilograms (198 ½ pounds), but eventually it will stretch further with use and lose some of its tension, causing the piano to lose its correct pitch.

The strings need to be tuned once or twice a year to restore them to their proper tension. Adjustment involves the entire piano action, keyboard, and pedal movements. Proper adjustment is especially important for grand pianos. Whether the piano will perform properly or not depends on how accurately the adjustment is made. Tuning and adjustment should only be done by an expert. When your piano requires either one, call a specialist.

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