The world's best piano brands are characterized by high-quality, unmatched quality, and a unique, unmistakable sound. Some of the best-known manufacturers of pianos and grand pianos are centuries-old owner-managed family companies, which keep the complicated craft even today in honor.
Wondering what brand of piano is the best, is based on hard quantifiable criteria such as timbre, tonality, playability, workmanship and company history. This makes a decision, which manufacturers the most convinced you purely subjective and highly individual.
Based on years of experience, we have compiled the following list, the five best (in our opinion) wing, and piano brands.
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Steinway & Sons
Steinway & Sons are the probably the world's best-known manufacturer of pianos and grand pianos top class. Each tool consists of more than 10,000 items and is manufactured by skilled masters in countless steps over many months.
Steinway & Sons were founded by a German immigrant named Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg m years 1853 in the United States. After his emigration, he had to write his last name in English in Steinway, was the Namensgebend for the company.
Steinway & Sons have more than 125 registered patents, which also more than 150 years after its foundation the company make unique on upright and grand pianos. The company is located in New York and Hamburg and manufactures still keyboards as well as wings.
In addition to its high-quality standard series, Steinway & sons also published new special editions on certain occasions which are designed or created based on a historical event by famous designers.
While most elaborately finished instruments for the upper-class market are offered under the series name Steinway, the Essex and Boston series directed more to target groups, the entry into the high-end piano- and wing market they are looking for.
The company online: https://eu.steinway.com/de/
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Bösendorfer
Bösendorfer, an Austrian manufacturer, founded in 1828, however, is even older than Steinway & sons. The invention of the Bösendorfer Imperial Grand Piano with 97 instead of the ordinary 88 key made the brand to the manufacturer of one of the most famous concerts grand piano in the world. On 97 cores, it can be played all 8 octaves that offer plenty of room for improvisation.
Bösendorfer offers luxurious pianos in several designs. In the range are both pianos and concert grand piano produced in most precise hand work.
Bösendorfer pianos are known for their rich, full sound and are intended for the high-end market.
The company online: https://www.boesendorfer.com/de
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Fazioli
Fazioli is a recent, highly successful wing brand. The company of Fazioli was founded in Italy in 1981 by Paulo Fazioli. He was a distinguished concert pianist, who grew up in a family of instrument makers. With his past as a passionate musician, the Italian has made is to create the best wings in the world.
Unlike most manufacturers of pianos, Fazioli focuses exclusively on the production of wings with a high-quality standard.
Fazioli instruments have therefore also their price. Even in the not just favorable market for the best wings in the world, Fazioli truncates awards between (about) 80,000 and €250,000 in the top segment.
Fazioli has succeeded as a second company, managed themselves in a relatively short time since its inception, to position itself as one of the world's best piano brands.
The company online: http://www.fazioli.com/de
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Bechstein
Bechstein also belongs to the is established for a long time manufacturer of pianos. The German company headquartered in Berlin produces pianos as well as wings for different price segments since 1853. The companies Bechstein sold under the guise of a total of four brands their unique instruments: C. Bechstein, Bechstein, W.Hoffmann, and Zaki are they.
While C.Bechstein rather manufactures Produtkte for the end of the flagpole, the company offers some cheaper options with Zimmermann.
The company online: www.bechstein.com
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Blüthner
The Blüthner company had its headquarters in Leipzig and was founded in the same year as Steinway & Sons, in 1853. The German family business is run today by the descendants of Julius Blüthner and is still known for the exceptional quality.
The company's history is marked by ups and downs: while even the Hindenburg with a Büthner wing was equipped and many of the most famous composers of the world a Büthner owned or had played at least on one, was the production site the company during the second world war greatly devastated.
After the reconstruction of the factory in Leipzig, the large expansion of the company Büthner began. Nowadays Büthner achieved a large part of its sales abroad and has business centers in cities such as London, Moscow, Vienna, and Tokyo.
The company online: http://www.bluethnerworld.com/index.php/en/