For most people a grand piano is black. The association is a large instrument with a shiny surface and 88 black and white keys. But the piano, too, allows many other possibilities of shaping and surface.
"Daen" - Emiko Kato, Tokyo - Bösendorfer Design Award 2006
Bösendorfer has always produced individual instruments. Bösendorfer customers have always valued the possibility of selection between various forms, types of wood, colour and finishing. Generations of sensitively demanding music lovers have enjoyed the thrill of possessing an individual, hand-built instrument of immaculate, unprecedented sound of quality.
Create your own piano
Pars pro toto we put the first limited Kuhn-Bösendorfer, which was unveiled in North Carolina, USA, in January this year, before the curtain.
The stunning 7´4´´ black Kuhn-Bösendorfer is inset with as many as 100-thousand hand cut, lead crystal jewels arranged in a glittering array of diamond patterns on the case, lid, legs and fallboard. The instrument has been a year and a half in the making and is a grand collaboration of Bösendorfer with the world´s foremost glass sculptor Jon Kuhn.
Jon Kuhn and his piece of art - 100.000 hand cut, lead crystal jewels on the Kuhn-Bösendorfer grand piano, available through Kuhn Studio and participating Bosendorfer dealers.
A piano manufacturer worthy of the name (Latin manus-hand, and factura-making) can also proof of its ability by building special models and one-of-a-kind instruments. We need not make allowances for conveyor belts and robots – at Bösendorfer, instruments are made of genuine craftspersons. With pleasure, they create the piano of your dream, the piano of your love for you.
