Boston and Essex Pianos Designed by Steinway & Sons
On Sale Now Through November 9
Grand Pianos from $189 Per Month, No Down Payment*
For Cash Buyers, Ask About Our 6 Month Same as Cash Option
Upright Pianos from $107 Per Month, No Down Payment**
Responsiveness. Rich tone. Intuitive grace. Pianists and piano teachers consistently remark that the Steinway-designed Boston and Essex pianos are the most musical, best-playing pianos at their price point. Crafted from the same design principles that have made Steinway synonymous with musical excellence for over 170 years, here are some of the unique features that make Boston and Essex the pianos of choice for use in the home, as well as countless conservatories, universities, houses of worship, and music studios around the world.
• Low-Tension String Scale, designed by Steinway: The low-tension string scale produces a longer-sustaining tone and gives longer life to the entire piano. By using the lowest tension possible to achieve the desired tone and pitch for each note across the soundboard, Boston and Essex pianos produce a fuller, richer, and wider sound by allowing more partials to sing. This design produces more sustain, greater power, and a wider dynamic range, with an incredible palette of color suitable for all genres of music. You can hear the Steinway difference when comparing it to the overly bright, brittle, dark, or limited sound of other manufacturers’ pianos at similar price points.
• Steinway Wide-Tail Design: The wide-tail design is a special innovation by Steinway & Sons, employed in their performance pianos, that creates more surface area in the soundboard than other pianos of the same size. This enriches the sound, giving the pianist the power and range more typical of a larger piano.
• Steinway-designed Tapered Solid-Spruce Soundboard: Only high-grade, straight-grained, quarter-sawn spruce is used for its resonant qualities and high strength-to-mass ratio. Boston and Essex soundboards are made of solid (not laminated) spruce for the best resonance and projection of sound. Boston and Essex soundboards feature a tapered thickness from bass to treble. Less mass to move in the bass area vibrates more freely to produce a richer, fuller tone, while a thicker, more supportive soundboard in the treble allows for greater focus and tonal projection in the melody range. Pianos with soundboards of uniform thickness simply lack the complexity and interest of sound found in Steinway-designed pianos.
• Steinway-patented Duplex Scale: Steinway & Sons’ patented duplex scaling adds harmonic dimension and longer sustain to each note. When a string is set in vibration, partials or overtones are produced simultaneously with the fundamental tone, giving a complex and singing quality to each note. In the original patent, this design, combined with the low-tension scale, produces a fuller, richer, more powerful tone with longer sustain. These two design features work together to produce the best results.
• Steinway-designed All-Wood Action: Designed by Steinway’s engineers in New York and Hamburg, Boston and Essex employ an action geometry inspired by Steinway design principles, including angled whippen heels for improved feel and action performance. The actions of these pianos are characterized by faster repetition, greater stability, and heightened responsiveness, allowing the pianist to play with maximum expression and control. Boston and Essex actions are made only from wood – not plastic – to yield the best musical response.
Act now – all Boston and Essex pianos are on sale – for a limited time only.
For more information about the sale or the unique features and benefits of owning a Steinway product, call 877-577-4266 or complete the online form below.
*With credit approval, no down payment required. Terms of repayment: 120 monthly payments of $189. Annual Percentage Rate is 8.99%. Cash price: $14,900
**With credit approval, no down payment required. Terms of repayment: 120 monthly payments of $107. Annual Percentage Rate is 8.99%. Cash price: $8,450
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