Story and clark piano review series#
The Signature Series also comes in both vertical and grand models. The Heritage Series is a popularly priced line of verticals and grands with a Storytone II soundboard—Story & Clark’s name for a veneer-laminated, all-spruce soundboard. Story & Clark offers two series of pianos, each series including verticals and grands made to its specifications by various Asian manufacturers. of old.) QRS, historically the nation’s major source of music rolls for traditional player pianos, now manufactures an electronic player-piano system, called PNOmation, that can be retrofitted into any piano (see “ Buying an Electronic Player-Piano Systemâ€).
(Ironically, QRS itself was founded in 1900 by Melville Clark, of the Story & Clark Piano Co. In 1993 Story & Clark was purchased by QRS Piano Rolls, Inc., now QRS Music Technologies, Inc. Over the years, pianos were manufactured under a number of different names, including, in recent years, Story & Clark, Gulbransen, Hobart M. The business settled in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 1901, where it remained, under various owners, until about 1990, when a new owner moved the company to its present location in Seneca, Pennsylvania. Hampton Story began making pianos in 1857 and was joined by Melville Clark in 1884. Jump in your car and get here as fast as you can….you don’t want to miss out on this piano! See you soon.Pianos made by: various Asian manufacturers
When you go figure that a player system alone is around $7500, you will realize this piano is a terrific bargain at just $11,888! You are either not paying much at all for a “like new” baby grand, or you are nearly getting the player system thrown in for free. Here are some highlights:īill Joel, Barbra Streisand, Neil Diamond, Hits of the ’80s, the Beatles, Barry Manilow, Yanni, Elton John, Frank Sinatra and LOTS MORE! There is plenty of fun in here for everyone! The attached speaker will fill up your room with all of the background accompaniment, too….drums, guitars, woodwinds, strings, brass and more. While we’re talking about sound, this Story & Clark piano is equipped with a QRS Petine player system and over 20 CDs…many of which aren’t even opened. The piano also has a solid spruce soundboard, which is responsible for cranking out the sound! If a company was wanting to save money in the manufacturing process, this is a place they could have skimped (and probably nobody would have ever noticed). As it turns out, the thing is reinforced with steel to keep it from sagging or warping. When we removed the music desk to take photos of the tuning pins, we noticed how remarkably heavy it was. This is really nice if you have little fingers around the piano and you don’t want them to get smashed. There are quite a few features on this piano, including a soft close fallboard (keycover). The polished ebony cabinet, the strings, the tuning pins, the keys……everything shines like brand new! This piano has had very good care and it shows. Purchased new in 2006, this Story & Clark baby grand comes complete with a QRS player system and a bunch of disks.
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