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Grand pianoA grand designed by Steinway and Sons and built in Japan by Kawai, for players who want that design thinking at a price a home can justify.
Steinway and Sons created the Boston line to offer instruments below its own name at a lower price. The design is Steinway’s and the grands are built for it at a Kawai factory in Japan.
It is its own instrument rather than a Kawai with a different name on the fallboard. One difference a player feels straight away is the action: a Boston uses a traditional all wood action, where Kawai fits a composite one to its own grands. The Boston in these photographs was taken on our viewing gallery floor at IMM.
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The same four we check ourselves before an instrument goes on the floor. Every instrument is an original used piano. Not reconditioned, not rebuilt. Ask us about any of them on a specific piano and you get a straight answer.
Two grands from two different traditions. The Boston is a Steinway design built in Japan, the Schimmel a German instrument from a firm founded in 1885. Which suits you is a question of touch and tone, and the only way to settle it is to play both.
Both, back to back, in the same room on the same afternoon. That is a fifteen minute job at the viewing gallery and it settles the question far better than any page can.
It is designed by Steinway and Sons and sold under the Boston name, but it is not a Steinway branded instrument. The grands are built for Steinway by Kawai in Japan. Think of it as Steinway design at a lower price rather than a Steinway at a discount.
No. Kawai builds it, but to Steinway’s design, and the two differ in ways a player can feel. The Boston uses a traditional all wood action, for example, where Kawai grands use a composite one.
It depends on the size, the year and the condition, so a single figure would be a guess. Ask about a specific instrument and you get a specific price. If there is no Boston on the floor we will tell you, and tell you what is close.
Yes, and you should. Come to the viewing gallery at IMM, sit down at it, and play it against another grand on the same afternoon. Bring your teacher if that helps.
All grands
180 cm and up
The size people ask for by name is around six feet. It is long enough to behave like a proper grand and short enough to place in a home or a small hall, which is why it is the most requested length we see.
Read about grand pianos →Yamaha
161 to 186 cm
The grand most people in Singapore mean when they say they want a grand. The real question is less which maker and more which length.
Read about it →Kawai
166 cm
Two years old, 166 cm, from Kawai’s GX BLAK series, and the most recent grand on our floor. The model and the serial are both cast and stamped into the plate, so that age is a matter of record rather than an estimate.
Read about it →Schimmel
A German grand from a maker that has built pianos since 1885. The one we photographed carries Made in Germany on its keyboard and the Schimmel crest inside the case.
Read about it →Message us with the model and we will tell you what is in, what condition it is in, and what it costs. If we have nothing suitable we will say that instead.
