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3: Hammer in check
Steinway
Model
D concert
grand
most
performance
modern
concert
purposes.
in 1857, although
f)
"
e
Sreinway
unique
technique
the entire
to the instrument's
between
countries,
the
instruments
have a different
(USA),
to the individual
4D
period
16 moulded toe
171eg
18 leg cap
19 bent side
20 heel
21 rim or case
22 short stick
23 prop stick
24 front half, front top
2S top hinge
26 music rest
27 music desk
28 straight side
29 action
30 action standardl
hanger
(the
introverted
brighten
with
that
about
150
(Germany)
and
slight
differences
originating
in
the
two
suited
Some players
Key
from
unique sound.
produced
rim
for
of wood - a feature
traditionally
York
it was
1 balance weights/key
leads
2 keys
3 front baize/key bottom
4 front rail
S balance rail
6 balance pin
7 back rail
8 cheek
9 lyre post
10 una corda pedal
11 sostenuto pedal
12 damper pedal
13 lyre
14 lyre brace
1S castor
piece
contributes
G
6)0
its
manufacturing
single
for
model appeared
~
used
pianists
1920s
and
1930s),
which
for Steinways
darker,
more
the preferences
whose expectations
This characteristic
other respects,
now started
of the recording
industry
concert-going
public
recordings.
and of a modern
that
these have
of the great
European firms.
Tonal purists
when
considered
beauty
above
instrument,
20
the manufacturer
inadequate
all else,
was using
and rather
or who
make
However,
only
modest
choice.
action'
and beauty of
a more primitive
unreliable.
subtlety
type of action,
now
demands
of the