In shorter pianos the wire stiffness in the bass register is proportionately high and therefore causes greater stretch; on larger concert grand pianos this effect is reduced.
He used concert grand pianos and, occasionally, other keyboard instruments such as the harpsichord.
The individual pieces have been described as true concert works, being best served on a stage and with a concert grand.
This gives the concert grand a brilliant, singing and sustaining tone qualityone of the principal reasons that full-size grands are used in the concert hall.
Due to this construction the sounding board, responsible for the acoustic breadth of the instrument, is of double size of an ordinary concert grand piano.
Happily for pianists, the string stretch that accommodates inharmonicity on a concert grand also nearly exactly mitigates the accumulation of dissonance in the perfect fifth.
This company is especially popular for its high quality concert grand pianos.
