The Steinway & Sons New York Factory

Dried Cabinets Wait to be Moved

Dried and Drying CabinetsAfter the rim-bending and drying, the cabinets wait to be moved into a longer-terrm curing storage area. There cabinets cure for several months.

The left photo shows the cabinet in a verticle position from the perspective of the front end where the arms and the keybed will be attached.

The cabinet will then be sanded and the ends will be squared. Then the soundboard, pinblock, keybed, action, strings and other vital parts will be added. At some point the parts will begin to equal a piano, but not just any piano. It will become a piano with a soul. It will become a Steinway.


 

 

 

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Text and Photography Sources

Photographs by Robert Callaghan, RPT

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Closson, Ernest. History of the Piano. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1944.

Fletcher, Neville H. and Thomas D Rossing. The Physics of Musical Instruments. New York,Springer, 1998.

Loesser, Arthur. Men, Women and Pianos, A Social History. New York, Dover Publications, Inc., 1954.