PETROF P173 Breeze
The Breeze has gentle and romantic caress. Its effortless touch renders it all the more inspiring and personal. If you let it, it will reach into the innermost recesses of your soul. With its kind assistance, you will dare to venture where previously you might have been afraid even to look. Its perfect proportions make it an enhancement to any stylish household or educational institution.
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Width - 1525 mm | 5'
Length - 1730 mm | 5'8"
Height - 1025 mm | 40 3/8"
Weight - 320 kg | 705 lb
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Sound board material Resonance spruce wood
Active area (m²) 1,293
Ribs (number, shape) 11, spherical
Soundboard construction wedgewise tapered 9 - 7 mm
Cast iron plate Wet sand casting
Surfacing of iron plate light gold metallic paint, diamond effect
Pin block - material Multiplex beech plywood, density 800 - 850 kg/m3
Inner rim material 9 laminas - beech, birch
Inner rim thickness 35 mm
Wooden frame posts 3 longitudinal
Descant post material spruce
Cut off bar (corner cross rib) straight, beech
Outer rim - material Sandwich, solid alder wood core, plywood coated, inner veneer Ebony Makassar
Bridge - treble solid maple wood
Bridge - bass solid maple wood
Bridge pins steel - round tips
Agraffes material - number brass, 1-53
Duplexes - front d2 - c5
Duplexes - rear ais - c5
Strings - material steel wire Röslau Germany, copper winding Degen Germany
Hitching of plain strings double
Dampers - number 1 - 68
Action standard RENNER - PETROF
Hammer heads The highest quality hammerheads made in Germany, individually voiced
Keyboard Tangential sawn spruce wood, individually balanced with lead
Black keys Ebony wood
Pedals left - Unacorda (Piano) pedal, middle - Sostenuto (Prolongement) pedal, right - Sustein pedal
Legs and castors thick legs, big braked castors
PETROF sign on right side wall PETROF
Felts colour red + black
Hydraulic slow close fallboard mech. yes
EMILIO SOLLA, PIANIST, MUSIC INVENTOR, NEW YORK
“I have hadclassical training in the piano in Buenos Aires for years, and then moved to Impovised and jazz related music. During all these years I believe I have developer a personal touch and sound, and that’s the main thing I look for in a piano: to be able to get my own sound, Instead of performing with the piano’s own sound. So my sound checks are not a show of notes, but sometimes I merely play one note, or one chord, to know what I am dealing with. In this occasion, that was enough to know everything was going to b ethere. I had no idea that Petrof’s big pianos planos would have such a warm, deep sound. I had a great time performing, and could find in the piano everything I needed, from crystal, Debussyan oriented passages to the strong attact of more traditional tango bass notes.”
- Emilio Solla
