O piano Essex incorpora as mais recentes especificações de design e padrões de engenharia da Steinway & Sons, utilizando os melhores materiais e fornecendo um nível de performance musical anteriormente inatingível na sua faixa de preço.
Os pianos Essex são mais largos na cauda do que a maioria dos outros pianos do mesmo comprimento. Isto permite uma maior área de ressonância, produzindo uma sonoridade mais rica.
De acordo com o compromisso estabelecido pela Steinway & Sons, a mesma presta assistência técnica para a produção de pianos Essex, para garantir que estes são feitos com as especificações estabelecidas pela Steinway.

DIMENSIONS

Height: 100 cm (39¼")
Length: 155 cm (5' 1")
Width: 151 cm (59¼")
Net Weight: 289 kg (636 lb)

technical SPECIFICATIONS

Rim/Backframe
Outer rim is made of laminations of European Maple (Acer platanoides) and inner rim is made of laminated European Beech (Fagus sylvatica). Wide tail design (similar to Boston). 22 mm outer rim width, 38 mm inner rim width.

Braces/Posts
Steinway-like radial bracing. 3 braces.

Pinblock
Laminated multi-directional Maple. Thickness: 36 mm.
Soundboard Solid Spruce. Linear taper. Vibrating area: 1.07 m² (1,657 in²)

Ribs
Ribs notched into inner rim (no floating ribs). Ribs made of spruce and staggered/graduated. Number of ribs: 11

Bridges
Vertically laminated maple base with solid maple cap.

Scale
Designed by Steinway. 17,661 kg (38,854 lb) tension.

Plate
Cast iron, painted with Steinway Gold.

Tuning Pins
Carbon steel nickel coating.

Duplex Scales
Front and rear duplexes Designed by Steinway.

Strings
Roslau wire. Number of sizes of treble strings: 14. Lowest tenor note: 27. Number 1 speaking length: 112 cm (44.0")

Hammers
Designed by Steinway. Weight of topfelt: 7 kg (15 lb).

Action
Designed by Steinway. Angled whippen heel. All wood (no plastic) for all moving parts. Extruded aluminum action rails with Steinway rosette shape

Keys
Steinway design. Spruce.

Keybed
Spruce

Pedals
Brass. Una corda, full sostenuto, and sustain (damper) pedals.

Features
Slow-fall fallboard. Fold-down fallboard lip. Bench: Matching veneer-topped bench for bubinga pianos; matching cushioned bench for all other finish pianos.

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