Description
Steinway & Son’s Vertegrand Upright Piano – This piano has been fully refurbished and is absaloutly stunning, we don’t think it will last long in our showroom so we would suggest early viewing to come try it.
The pianos has been refurbished and comes fully regulated, serviced and tuned ready for its new home.
The Model K or “Vertegrand” is an upright piano introduced in 1903 by Steinway & Son’s. It is the oldest essentially unchanged upright piano design currently in mass production. Although production was interrupted from about 1939 until its reappearance in 1982, the structural design has remained essentially the same for well over a century.
Production history
Model K (1903–1943)
The Steinway Vertegrand, also known as the Model K, was designed by Steinway director Henry Ziegler and introduced in 1903. The name “Vertegrand” displayed along the top of the iron frame reflected the instrument’s size relative to Steinway’s then-current lineup; at 52 inches (132 cm), it was smaller than the 54.3-inch (138 cm) “Upright Grand” scale (Model I in New York; Model R in Hamburg) introduced in 1894, but larger than the 49-inch (125 cm) scale that would later become the Model V.
The American Model K was discontinued in the wake of the Great Depression in 1930, but the Hamburg factory continued making the model, although by the 1930s the term “Vertegrand” had disappeared from the casting of the iron frames of the Hamburg pianos and was replaced by the hand-painted comment Erzeugnis der Steinway-Werke Hamburg-Altona, which translates to “Product of the Steinway Factory in Hamburg-Altona.” Production continued in Hamburg until the Hamburg Steinway factory was seized for war-related production around the time of the allied firebombing in 1943, which destroyed all of the factory’s records.
