Sauter Grand Pianos | Upright Pianos Master Class | Microtone Piano
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Beauty in sound and sight..
Those who consider buying a piano today, are entitled to the highest standards available. First, sound is of the most importance, as music is, above all, a listening experience. Second, a piano’s visual appearance determines its overall beauty and sound. Pianos should harmonise with one’s environment and lifestyle.
These are the standards to which we build pianos so that our ambition and success is justified. Pianos by SAUTER are pleasing because of their sparkling sound, fine playing-experience, and high expressiveness. Additionally, they are an inspiration because of their first class appearance and perfect workmanship. Listen and see for yourself!
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The Master Class - SAUTER pianos providing concert quality
For sound perfection, SAUTER offers a series of master class pianos – our top-of-the-range piano manufacturing. These pianos by SAUTER hit ambitious music peaks, with tones of concert quality. Further inner qualities are added to this master class by SAUTER; with it comes the sostenuto pedal (sustaining pedal), which is usually only to be found in grand pianos. Hence, these pianos by SAUTER offer the sound quality of a grand piano.
Thanks to the patented construction of the sustaining pedal it is possible to adjust its function particularly well without any major effort. Hammerheads with a core of exotic woods enhance the good tone sensation and are ideally fine-tuned with the resonating body. For even better tone purity, we use only the finest spruce from the “Val di Fiemme” in the high region of South Tyrol, grown at an altitude of 1,100 metres, for the sounding board. This wood is free of tension and can be consequently worked very well, delivering, together with the unique “SAUTER Spherical Concavity®”, an unheard-of pleasure in listening.
Such legendary tonewood is preferred by Cremonesian violin makers like the ‘Stradivaris’ for centuries. Sharp tones made of ebony, award fabulous playing sensation. Our eye catching cast plates are hand-grounded and completed with a precious finish and our inner body and hammer rests are covered with maple heartwood to achieve the ultimate finish. High demands are made in piano-making and are being met with the Master Class made by SAUTER. Built for sophisticated pianists.
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MASTER CLASS 130 - Professionalism perfectly satisfied. polished black. 52"
Sound board made of finest Val di Fiemme tonewood. Sharp tones made of ebony, hand-grounded cast plate, hammerheads with walnut core and choice high-quality felts, double repetition action, sostenuto pedal* (sustaining pedal) as on grand pianos.
Lock, hygrometer, and brass castors. Solid string back. Inside of casing and hammer shaft covered with maple heartwood, hydraulic soft fallboard.
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MASTER CLASS 122 - For highest standards in sound. Polished black. 48""
An instrument of harmonious elegance and exceptional inner qualities.
An instrument of harmonious elegance and exceptional inner qualities: soundboard made of the finest Fiemme spruce from which the famous Stradivarius violins were made. With its balanced sparkling sound from the bass to the treble, the piano is a pure pleasure to listen to. Sharps of fine wood. Hand-ground cast plate. Hammerheads with walnut heartwood and choice high-quality felts for almost unlimited expressiveness. R2 grand piano technology. Sostenuto pedal (loud pedal) as on a grand. Lock, hygrometer, brass castors. Sturdy back. Inside of casing and hammer strip faced with real bird’s-eye maple.
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Microtone Piano
If the term “microtonality” means anything to you it is probably the attempt to divide up the generally accepted system of intervals which is based on whole tone and semitone steps.
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Sauter's 1/16 tone / microtone piano. Polished black. 48""
However, with microtonality it is much more an attempt to explore the areas between the semitones of the usual system and thus to activate new areas of tonality. In pianos this system has increasingly been the subject of schemes and structural activity for more than 100 years. Quarter tone instruments have already been around for a long time. Particular pioneers of these ideas were Charles Ives and the Czech Alois Hába who in turn extended his ideas to the 1/6 tone.
However, in 1895 the Mexican Julian Carrillo (1875 - 1965) worked on the problem of the 1/16 tone interval for the first time, as yet probably the smallest unit between the usual semitone step. In 1925 he devised an original notation for these ideas. Together with the conductor Leopold Stokowski he founded an “Orquesto Sonido 13”, in other words an ensemble which played microtonally and with which he and Stokowski even went on tour in the ’30’s. Then in 1940 Carrillo took out a patent on a project for 15 differently pitched pianos. He found the piano making company Piano Maker Carl Sauter in Spaichingen which was able to build him the relevant prototype pianos for his project. He presented his instruments built by Sauter in 1958 during the Brussels World Fair. These were pitched, according to the model, from whole tone down to the sixteenth tone. Success was not long in coming for Carrillo and the piano maker Sauter: the instruments went on to win a gold medal in Brussels. Today two of the instruments are in the Paris Conservatoire: one in the sixteenth tone and one in the third tone. Others are in the Conservatoires in Nice and Mexico City.
The sixteenth tone piano is pitched from key to key in 1/16 tone intervals so that a normal fifth on this instrument sounds like a semitone, missing out a 1/16 tone. From the bottom to the top tone there is a span of exactly an octave on this piano. The sound is remarkable as it does not have the traditional sound sensation of a piano but, due to the continually developing vibrations of the individual tones, completely new sound waves are produced. These tonalties result in new challenges for a pianist and also for the composer writing for this type of instrument. The piano stands 116 centimetres tall with 97 keys and 291 steel strings which are stretched trichordally (three strings per tone).
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