Steinway & Sons Model B
Custom-built to play better than new, at a fraction of the cost.
$89,500
What Performance-Grade Means
Designed, Not Just Restored
A factory piano is built to production tolerances. A Performance Grade piano is built to a design. We took this pre-war New York Steinway B down to the rim and remanufactured every major system to our own specifications, then set up the touch and tone for this one instrument.
Tone by Design
Touch by Design
Features
A new Sitka spruce soundboard designed from the original scale, and a full rescale with Stephen Paulello hybrid wire for a better-balanced voice from bass to treble.
Front weight, balance weight and strike weight set to spec, key by key. The result is an even, controllable touch that production keyboards rarely match.
Keyboard and action laid out to ideal geometry with a true line of convergence, using Steinway and Renner parts set up for optimized friction.
Model
B
Built
1936, New York
Size
6' 11"
Serial
288583
Case
Finish & Hardware
Traditional ebonized lacquer finish, hand-rubbed to a satin luster sheen
All hardware nickel-plated
Traditional black suede buttons that do not disintegrate like the modern rubber ones
Structure
Soundboard, Pinblock, Plate, & Strings
New custom-designed Sitka spruce soundboard
Custom-made Steinway-style Hexagrip pinblock
Plate primed and gilded with hand-lettered enamel, new nickel-plated hitchpins, duplex bars and scarlet felt
Rescaled with Stephen Paulello nickel-plated hybrid wire, which resists corrosion and gives a better-balanced scale
Action
Keyboard & Touchweight
New keyboard with spruce keysticks and German beech keybuttons and shoes
Keys balanced for optimized front weight and balance weight
New white oak balance rail and front rail inserts, new balance rail pins and backrail cloth
New Steinway topstack rails with Steinway and Renner parts, set up for optimized friction and strike weight
New keyend felt, backchecks and anodized aluminum capstans
Action and keyboard custom-designed to ideal geometry, with a true line of convergence
Dampers
Damper System & Pedals
New damper system with Renner backaction, new damperheads, felts and wires
New trapwork and adjustable pedal rods