Costs £16,200 new.
In pristine condition and a super bargain at <£10k
Insured delivery included to address on mainland GB or Ireland.

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This 2018 Boston UP132E is presented in a premium polished ebony cabinet and is designed and manufactured by Steinway & Sons Japan. Externally its polished ebony cabinet looks great. This piano has an excellent key action, nice and responsive with great dynamic range. The front top panel can be pivoted to allow a larger music rest; and also allows harmonics to escape at each side giving an extra tonal variation for you that is unique to pianos designed by Steinway & Sons. Many of the Steinway & Sons patents are used in this piano allowing it to produce the ultimate playing pleasure. This piano has a deep rich tone and is beautiful to play. This piano is excellent value and a lifetime piano for you.

Dimensions
Height: 132cm
Width: 154cm
Depth: 67cm
Net Weight: 302kg

More About the Boston UP132 Performance Edition Upright Piano
The largest Boston upright piano at a height of 52" (132 cm), the UP-132E PERFORMANCE EDITION provides a rich and powerful sound that rivals many grand pianos. Designed by STEINWAY & SONS, employing the unique patents and expertise that have made the STEINWAY heritage synonymous with musical excellence, the BOSTON line of grand and upright pianos captures the STEINWAY DNA and represents a singular achievement in instrument-building: a superior playing experience at a price level never before thought possible

Rim/Backframe
Mahogany foot-piece soundboard lining and backboard. Specially-designed grand-type mahogany closing rim; unequaled vertical strength and stability and improved acoustics. Backposts have staggered spacing to enhance tone and provide support where needed.

Braces/Posts
Full-length laminated mahogany posts assure that the backframe will remain straight and consistent and tuning will remain stable. Mahogany fill-blocks between posts at the top and bottom of the backframe, capped with a mahogany backboard for positive vertical alignment. Solid filler blocks (no hollow spots). 5 posts. Total cross sectional area: 477 cm2 (73.9 inches). Thickness of post: 9 cm (3 1/2 inches). Width of post: (3) 9 cm (3 1/2 inches), (2) 13 cm (5 1/8 inches).

Pinblock
Octagrip pinblock made of 11 layers of hard rock maple ΓÇô glued in different grain angles of 60 degrees ΓÇô affording the tuning pins greater stability under tension and enabling the piano to stay in tune longer.

Soundboard
Close and straight-grain solid (not laminated) Sitka spruce. Minimum 3 annual growth rings per cm (minimum 8 per inch). Tapered from treble to bass, to provide a rich tone in the bass, and a brilliant and crisp tone in the treble, creating a well-balanced and lasting tonal response. Tapered from 9 mm to 8 mm. Vibrating area: 1.14 m2 (1,767 in2). Closing rim evens out the soundboards response to all frequencies. Emulates shape of grand soundboard.

Ribs
Made from durable spruce to assure strong and constant support of the strings bearing down on the soundboard. Ribs are fully let-in to the liner to support the important soundboard crown and prevent the piano from losing its tone. Number of ribs: 11

Bridges
Treble: Solid maple, curved to fit the crown of the soundboard. Bass: Solid maple mounted to cantilevered base. Doweled, glued, and screwed to soundboard. One continuous base and treble bridge.

Scale
Overstrung: Lower tension scale for longer sustaining tone and longer life of the whole piano. 17,633 kg (38,875 lb) tension.

Plate
Cast from grey iron, bronze-painted and lacquered. Vacuum cast.

Tuning Pins
Nickel-plated steel, cut threaded.

Strings
Treble: Highest grade steel (in half size increments). Number of sizes: 13. Lowest tenor note: 30. Bass: Steel core wire wound with solid copper. Number 1 speaking length: 121.7 cm (47.9 inches)

Hammers
Premium wool topfelt over premium wool underfelt. Weight of topfelt: 9.4 kg (20.8 lb). Compression-wired to retain permanent shape. Mahogany moldings. Hammer-shanks from select resilient maple or horn-beam. Computer-designed pear-shaped hammers with reinforced shoulders result in superior tone, increased durability and greater voicing ability.

Action
Solid maple (all wood, no plastic) for all moving parts. Extruded aluminum action rails for increased stability and less frequent regulation. Dependable direct-blow design.

Keys
Genuine spruce, individually balanced and weighted. Synthetic ivory and ebony key covers. Length of key: 40.3 cm (15.9ΓÇØ).

Keybed
Made from laminated hardwood. Strong, rugged construction provides a solid mount for the keyframe and action allowing for precise and prolonged action regulation. Keybed thickness is 42 mm.

Keyframe
Spruce with hardwood inserts in the balance rail and front rail for added stability.

Pedals
Heavy solid castings. Soft (half-blow), damper (sustaining), and muffler.