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Bösendorfer Premium Pianos

Bouml;sendorfer Pianos

Bösendorfer's Austrian Showroom With a history dating back to 1828, Austrian piano maker Bösendorfer is one of the world's oldest and most revered. With their characteristic warmth and richness of tone, Bösendorfer pianos are incredible both to play and to listen to.

With our resident Bösendorfer specialist in store, Chappell of Bond Street is able to offer you the range of Bösendorfer pianos, with several exquisite models available to sample in our historic Novello piano hall.

Bösendorfer makes several ranges of piano; we've listed the Standard Model range here. If you would like to make an appointment to discuss the Bösendorfer range (including models outside of the Standard Model range), please click here to send us your contact details; we'll be in touch with you shortly. Alternatively, please call 07973 909310.

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The Standard Models


Model 130 CL Upright Piano	Model 170 Baby Grand Piano	Model 185 Baby Grand Piano	Model 200 Grand Piano
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Model 214 Salon Grand Piano	Model 225 Grand Piano	Model 280 Concert Grand Piano	Model 290 - The Imperial Concert Grand Piano
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The Standard Range

Model 130 CL Upright Piano

Bösendorfer make only one upright piano - but with its incredible depth of tone, it sounds very much like a grand piano.

Benefitting from the same exceptional level of expertise as given to its grand piano siblings, the 130 CL is considered by many to be the very best upright piano available.

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88 keys, Length: 5', Depth: 2'1 1/4", Height: 4'4", Net Weight: 656 lb

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Model 170 Baby Grand Piano

The Bösendorfer Model 170 is the most compact grand piano in the range, though, with a length of nearly 5', it still gives a remarkably warm and powerful sound.

The Model 170 is built by hand in Austria, using the highest-quality materials. The sound quality of the bass in particular and the range of tonal colours afforded by the piano are exceptional for an instrument this size. Its highly responsive action allows for the fastest of repetitions and the highest precision for pianists.

The Model 170 is traditionally finished in highly polished black, but is alternatively available in a variety of veneers including Bird's Eye Maple, Burr Walnut, Amboyna, Rosewood, Pyramid Mahogany, Pommele or other desirable finishes.

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88 Keys, Length: 5'8", Width: 4'11", Net Weight: 691 lb

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Model 185 Baby Grand Piano

The Model 185 brings two, usually separate worlds together: the intimacy, warmth and pleasure of playing at home, and the power, precision and projection of public performance.

Its sensitivity makes it ideal for more intimate performances for smaller audiences, whilst its sonorous sound is the embodiment of Bösendorfer's hallmark concert tone. The same craftsmen that create Bösendorfer's full concert grands are also responsible for making the Model 185 an exceptional piano.

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88 keys, Length: 6'1", Width: 4'11", Net Weight: 726 lb

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Model 200 Grand Piano

For over 50 years, Bösendorfer's Model 200 has been one of their most popular. In creating it, Bösendorfer have produced a piano whose tonal and dynamic abilities holds exceptionally under scrutiny against those of its larger brothers - which is why it is so often the choice of professional teachers at conservatories and music schools across the world.

Its compact size, however, means that it is equally at home in a private space and, as with all Bösendorfer pianos, it has the same famous, rich and moving Bösendorfer sound.

Playability, workmanship and mechanical design are all at the superior level we've come to expect from Bösendorfer.

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88 keys, Length: 6'7", Weight: 4'11", Net Weight: 753 lb

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Model 214 'Salon' Grand Piano

Designed and built to offer exceptional capability for concert performances in medium sized halls, Bösendorfer's 'Salon Grand' Model 214 is a joy for both pianist and listener.

Its fullness of sound, precision of touch and incredible dynamic control are a delight to play whilst its sustained, warm tonal character will be warmly applauded.

Salon grands rose in popularity at the start of the Bieder-meier period (the style in painting, literature and furniture from around 1815 to 1848). During that era, an important role was played in Viennese musical life by elegantly furnished salons where the foremost composers of their day would present their works. During the 19th century, salons developed into exclusive gathering places for Austria’s aristocratic and bourgeois society.

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88 keys, Length: 7', Width: 4'11", Net Weight: 826 lb

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Model 225 Grand Piano

Bösendorfer's Model 225 piano is built for the stage. Its inimitable sound results from Bösendorfer's trademark combination of experience, skilled craftsmanship, technological expertise, musicality and hallmark sound.

To play the Model 225 and to experience its expressive diversity and inimitably rich, moving sound, is something very special indeed.

Its size and construction affords a rich palette of sound colours, from the softest pianissimo to the loudest fortissimo. Four additional sub-bass keys also extend the bass range to bottom F.

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92 keys, Length: 7'4", Width: 5'25", Net Weight: 923 lb

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Model 280 Concert Grand Piano

Bösendorfer's constant contact with the world’s greatest pianists and most eminent conductors enabled them to draw up a detailed 'wish list' for a new concert grand model. Thanks to a combination of new technological development and Bösendorfer's natural musical heritage, that wish list is now a reality in the Model 280.

The Bösendorfer principle of construction views the entire instrument as a cohesive whole. This is what allows their pianos to achieve that uniquely rich tone colour palette and their characteristic singing timbre - and is what makes the Model 280 Concert Grand Piano so special.

A new model created for the 21st century, the Model 280 is multitalented. It can hold its own against the forces of a large orchestra, yet it has all the sensitivity required for an accompanying role in a chamber music setting. In the bass it has a clarity and fundamental tone that no instrument has achieved ever before.

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88 keys; Length: 9'2", Width: 5'3", Net Weight: 1.167 lb

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Model 290 Imperial Flagship Grand Piano

Of all the Bösendorfer grand pianos, Model 290 - the Imperial Flagship grand, carries the Bösendorfer heritage in its most pronounced form. Historically, the Imperial was the 19th grand piano model made by the Bösendorfer company.

Originally built following a suggestion by composer Ferruccio Busoni, the Imperial has 97 keys, ie eight full octaves. This expanded range allows faithful performances of a number of compositions by Bartók, Debussy, Ravel and, not least of all, Busoni.

Combining a hugely powerful soundboard and a large proportion of mountain spruce from the Alps, Model 290's sound is almost orchestral. The Bösendorfer 'resonating chamber principle' which views the entire instrument as a cohesive whole, generates unsurpassed power and a poignantly full tone. Model 290 is Bösendorfer's only standard grand piano model to have acquired an epithet when it was first built (around 1900).

Its commanding presence in some of the world’s great concert halls sets the standard by which other grand pianos are judged.

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97 keys; Length: 9'6", Width: 5'9", Net Weight: 1.255 lb

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Inspiring Composers

Due to its uncompromising, purely Viennese sound and its tonal range unsurpassed the world over, the Imperial has inspired composers to write piano works particularly for this piano. Here are some examples:

Béla Bartók: Piano Concerto No.2, Piano Concerto No.3
Ferruccio Busoni: Several original compositions, J.S. Bach transcriptions
Claude Debussy: La Cathédrale Egloutie
Ernst von Dohnányi: Piano Concerto (devoted to the first Bösendorfer Piano Competition 1889)
Frank Martin: Piano Concerto No.2
Modest Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: The Great Gates Of Kiev
Maurice Ravel: Jeu d'Eau, Scarbo (Gaspard de la nuit)
Roger Sessions: Piano Sonata No.2
Ralph Vaughn Williams: Pieces for Pianos
Richard Wagner: Parsifal: Bells of the Grail

Bösendorfer Imperial 290 provided by KIROV HIGH-END for JAZZ FM BIRTHDAY CONCERT

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