WITH STEINWAY & SONS’ BESPOKE SERVICE, THE ONLY LIMITATION IS YOUR IMAGINATION

As the world’s preeminent piano maker, Steinway & Sons has helped numerous purchasers notice the customized piano of their desires. Excess of simply an beautiful instrument, a Steinway piano is an instrument of the best expression and creativity, and it may be as distinctive as you and your private home.

No matter you think about your perfect Steinway to be, you may convey it to life with Steinway Bespoke. With the inventive help of Steinway’s group of extremely expert craftspeople and designers, your Steinway generally is a singular murals – handcrafted and made to order solely for you.

Bespoke pianos may be so simple as an artwork case that includes work from world-class artists – a reimagining of Monet’s Water Lilies, as an example, or Katsushika Hokusai’s The Nice Wave off Kanagawa positioned on the inside lid or outer rim of the piano. Or they are often as ornate as the primary White Home piano that was offered as a present to President Theodore Roosevelt in 1903. The #100,000 piano, celebrating 50 years of Steinway and now residing within the Smithsonian, may be meticulously replicated with even the small print of the golden eagles on the legs of the piano that appear to carry the instrument up.

Rob Polan, Vice President of Steinway Customized Pianos, says making bespoke and artwork case pianos dates again to the very starting of Steinway & Sons, which was based by German immigrant Henry Engelhard Steinway in 1853 in a Manhattan loft. Over the subsequent 30 years, Henry and his sons developed the trendy piano, constructing their devices one after the other and making use of expertise which have been handed down ever since.

As we speak, each Steinway & Sons piano is constructed with expertise many years within the making by artisans who take delight and time to humanize a piano nonetheless made by hand, who try for and obtain steady innovation and enchancment. Each Steinway grand and upright is a masterpiece of expertise consisting of greater than 12,000 particular person elements and taking a 12 months to make from begin to end. Every Steinway additionally has its personal musical character and is as distinctive as the person who performs it.

“To reply to the rising demand for bespoke Steinways,” Polan says, “we expanded our group of expert craftsmen to create actually distinctive, one-of-a-kind pianos, and we’re thrilled to discover the untapped potential of what a Steinway can seem like.”

The primary head of Steinway’s artwork case division was J.B. Tiffany of the famed Tiffany household. Bespoke and artwork case Steinways have been designed and crafted in each conceivable fashion, using a variety of treasured stones, unique woods, gold portray and gilding, hand-painted art work, hand carving and extra. In line with this custom, designs huge or small may be customized constructed for any Steinway grand piano.

From clear traces and natural shapes to pure finishes and supplies, Steinway provides a spread of up to date designs to suit your aesthetic. Bespoke devices may incorporate treasured stones like diamond, malachite, lapis lazuli and mom of pearl, in addition to conventional strategies of marquetry and inlay. You would additionally go for gold, silver, and different treasured metals and finishes, plus hand-selected leathers and customized colours.

The countless potentialities proceed with Spirio, Steinway’s best high-resolution participant piano system. Providing an ever-expanding library of music with a whole bunch of hours of performances by famend artists throughout all genres, Spirio lets you get pleasure from Steinway in your house irrespective of your ability stage – even for those who’ve by no means performed piano.

To study extra about Steinway’s vary of bespoke companies and customized choices, go to steinway.com/bespoke or contact Steinway’s specialists to debate how they will notice your imaginative and prescient.