Model 290
Imperial
The commanding flagship
Eight full octaves
Originally built following a
suggestion by composer Ferruccio Busoni, the Imperial has 97
keys, i.e. eight full octaves. This expanded range allows
faithful performances of a number of compositions by Bartók,
Debussy, Ravel and, not least, Busoni.
Combining a very powerful sound-board and a high proportion
of sound-spruce from the Fiemme Valley in the South Tyrol,
this piano’s sound is almost orchestral. The Bösendorfer
“resonating box principle” which views the entire instrument
as a cohesive whole, generates unsurpassed power and a
poignantly full tone. Model 290 is our only standard grand
piano model to have acquired an epithet when it was first
built in around 1900: Imperial (lat. imperare, to order,
command).
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