Knabe Pianos®

WKG 58M

Soundboard	Tapered and contoured solid spruce soundboard made of select white spruce from Eastern Canada.
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	All Renner action made of European hornbeam.
Keys	Pratt-Reed Premium spruce keys, individually balanced and weighted.
Hammers	Premium Renner blue label hammers, t-wired and individually voiced.
Strings	Roslau music wire made in Germany.
Pin Block	16-ply, cross-grained laminated hard rock maple.
Tuning Pins	German Diamond brand 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.

The glory of the old European Empires inspired the case designers in the 1800s to create piano cases that could transform the parlors of turn-of-the-century American homes into uniquely styled music rooms. The Empire model 58M features cabinet detail not seen in grand pianos for almost 100 years.

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