The keyboard and action play seamlessly with a medium touch weight and a quick repetition. It can be played gently for a dreamy like tone, but can equally fill a room with a very large and robust sound. You are able to bring out a wide range of expression from this piano.
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The bass is very full and well rounded (sounds reminiscent of many German made pianos), and the treble has a crisp, crystalic quality. Sorry for the history lesson, but this is a very unique piano, and I thought it worth the proper introduction.Įssentially this is a very well built piano containing the parts and materials of very notable top tier manufacturers. To ensure that these pianos were of the highest quality, Schimmel would select only the finest pianos from each manufacturing run to send back to their Braunschweig, Germany factory for the final processes of intensive keyboard and action regulation, string leveling, tuning and hammer voicing. The tone and action performance of these high quality parts becomes very evident in the pianos appearance, tone, and playing performance. These selected parts and materials are all standards for some of the finest pianos in the world. Strunz Soundboards of Germany (Tight grained source tone wood sourced from the alps.) The new line of May Berlin Grand pianos included: The new May Berlin’s were made with several top quality German parts and materials. These newly revamped May Berlin pianos were very well received in the piano community. Schimmel’s solution to this resulted in a partnership with an offshore factory, and the reintroduction of the May Berlin brand. The intention of this second line was to offer high quality upright and grand pianos with high quality German parts at a more approachable price point than their top tier Schimmel brand. In the early 2000s, Schimmel sought out to offer a 2nd line of pianos to their brand.
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After the closure, Schimmel retained ownership of the May brand, designs, and factory equipment. Schimmel carried on production of upright and grand pianos in the May factory Berlin factory until the 1990s when they finally (like many other manufacturers over the years) closed their doors. Schimmel went on to purchase the Berlin factory in the early 1970s. May Klavier of Berlin, like many other high end European piano manufacturers is a somewhat obscure brand here in the US, but very much recognized in Europe for their world class instruments.Īfter several decades (nearly a century) of production, May started a relationship with Schimmel as a supplier of piano parts for their production.