Steinway & Sons, manufacturer of the world’ s finest pianos, announced the company’ s most significant product innovation in over 70 years: Steinway Spirio, the world’ s finest player piano system, available exclusively on select Steinway grand pianos.
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Steinway & Sons, manufacturer of the world’ s finest pianos, announced the company’ s most significant product innovation in over 70 years: Steinway Spirio, the world’ s finest player piano system, available exclusively on select Steinway grand pianos.
A masterpiece of engineering, Steinway Spirio provides the unrivaled musical experience that Steinway’ s customers expect, producing the most accurate reproduction of live performances ever achieved on a Steinway & Sons piano. Delicate pedaling, subtle phrasing, soft trills, and thundering fortissimos present no difficulty for Steinway Spirio. Damper and keyshift pedaling are replicated with unparalleled accuracy, following the pianist’ s depressions and releases smoothly and precisely over the entire range of motion.
Steinway Spirio is the product of Steinway & Sons’ partnership with Wayne Stahnke, building upon his decades of work as the world’ s foremost innovator in the field of modern player pianos. The system’ s superior playback results from the combination of numerous patented developments.
To take full advantage of Steinway Spirio’ s unique capabilities, Steinway & Sons is recording an entirely new catalog of music for the system, featuring the roster of over 1,700 Steinway Artists performing a wide range of genres, from classical to jazz, standards to contemporary. All pieces in the catalog are recorded, edited and released in high-resolution, using a proprietary data format that captures the finest details from each artist’ s performance. Steinway’ s entire catalog of performances will be provided to Steinway Spirio owners at no additional charge – a first for the player piano industry.
According to Michael Sweeney, CEO of Steinway & Sons,“ Since the founding of Steinway & Sons over 160 years ago, innovation and craftsmanship have served as the core tenets of the company. In today’ s marketplace, brands like ours must continue to innovate in order to remain relevant to the world around us, but that doesn’ t mean that quality and craftsmanship can suffer.” Sweeney added,“ After years of exploration, Steinway & Sons has created in the Steinway Spirio a high-resolution player piano that is rich with emotion and depth. Even the Steinway Artists that have recorded on the instrument agree that the Steinway Spirio captures the true essence, nuance, and soulfulness of a live performance, allowing us to bring artists and their audiences closer than ever before.”
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