Description
Why buy from us? We have been in the piano restoration & tuning business since 1953, expertly restoring, repairing and tuning pianos for Radio 4, music colleges, and were former County Council contract school piano tuners and repairers for Dorset, Hampshire, West Sussex, Harrow and Bucks. Our experience and expertise is second to none. Our expert knowledge can be traced back 100 years. We sell only Pianos; your piano purchase is special to us and would love to continue the after care for years to come!
Whats included.
• Expert in house multi point check by one of the UK’s most experienced piano restores.
• Part exchange welcome.
• Two free tunings after delivery to secure its stability in its new home.
• Free delivery and installation to ground floor, most UK (no steps).
• 5 Year parts Guarantee.
• Matching adjustable piano stool, fully assembled.
What has been restored?
- New German Heller bass strings producing a new bright full bass.
- New weighted touch throughout keyboard.
- Hammer rollers producing a even sensitive as new touch.
- Refaced hammers producing an even surface to the strings producing an even tone.
- Finely voiced hammer felts for soft, medium and loud playing.
- Key bushings producing even and as new touch.
- Wippen chushions.
- Fine regulated.
- Balance and front rail pins all lubricated with our secret technique.
- Tuned to concert A440 pitch.
A rare opportunity to purchase this just 36 year old Bluthner baby grand piano. It’s in perfect condition both inside and out, with a wonderful Mahogany modern high gloss finish with no fading. It sounds just like a Bluthner should mellow and multi layered. The touch has been newly weighted to 53gms down weight and a 20gms up weight, extremely responsive with wonderful repetition. We have fitted new Bass strings made in Germany by Hellerbass who supply many piano manufacturers and premium piano manufacturer Grotrian Steinweg. The Bass is so rich and powerful for such a small baby grand, it is a must to arrange a viewing here at Dorset Pianos Ltd, it was well worth the new Bass strings. This piano easily competes with our new piano stock for longevity and surpasses with sound and professional touch.
This Bluthner is a fine example for the time during the mid 1980s, the quality of the key wood is perfect with no degeneration and other action aspects such as the Whippens have the Bechstein type design of double wing springs that can be easily regulated with a grub screw. All the centre pin bushings are also regular in motion and the action overall was easy to regulate unlike earlier Bluthner models from after the war up to around this time, this Bluthner represents a rare find.
The above wave form graph is a Db meter reading from this model XI Bluthner grand piano compared to our new Kawai GL30 grand piano, the top graph is from the Bluthner and the bottom graph is the Kawai GL30. This test was done with middle C held down for 16 seconds using the same down force and allowing the note to decay naturally (resting ambient microphone noise just before large spike of note strike), note how on the Bluthner the decay is far smoother in its decay, whereas on the Kawai the decay is more rough and abrupt. The difference in decay is because of the shape of the soundboard on each piano and the different density of Spruce wood. The differences are in this instant quite large and to the human ear would render a more mellow tone on the Bluthner and harder tone on the Kawai.
Please feel free to contact us at our Dorset piano showroom to arrange a viewing and play.
We can offer finance and accept credit cards or BACS etc.
No quibble 14 day return policy or exchange, customer is responsible for return.
