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 Measured duplex, low tension scale designed by Klaus Fenner.
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.
K. Gunnar Benson designed the beautiful French Provincial style Knabe piano with an eye to create a timeless design that reflects the romantic period of King Louis XV. Gracious curves and sculpted lines make a great piano an heirloom to be enjoyed for generations.
