Asymmetrically tapered and contoured solid spruce soundboard made of select white spruce.
Frame
Maple and oak rim with spruce beams, tenon joined to the rim with hardwood dowels.
Bridges
Select hard rock maple with a maple cap, shaped and notched using today’s most sophisticated CNC machinery.
Ribs
Full length, pre-crowned solid spruce ribs, notched into the inner rim.
Plate
Pure iron ore made in the traditional method of slow sand casting
Scale
Original low-tension Baltimore scale design with added duplex.
Action
Premium action made of European hornbeam.
Keys
Premium spruce keys, individually balanced and weighted.
Hammers
Premium German hammers, t-wired and individually voiced.
Strings
Music wire made in Germany.
Pin Block
16 ply, cross grained laminated hard rock maple.
Tuning Pins
German tuning pins made of rod steel.
Others
Slow close fallboard.
Hand rubbed lacquer finish.
Maple legs with iron interlocks.
Forged brass pedals.
Full sostenuto.
Solid brass hardware
(Nickel also available).