Since 1885, it has been Schimmel’s passion to employ their artistic craftsmanship and knowledge to enable uncounted people, famous, well-known and unknown, to achieve their keys to happiness.
Since becoming the Exclusive Authorized Dealer for Schimmel in Utah, the relationship between Schimmel and Baldassin Pianos has continually grown stronger. Niklaus Schimmel wrote that the Baldassin’s “possess an outstanding level of integrity and expertise for the piano.” Through the Baldassin’s efforts, Schimmel was named the Official Piano and Grand Prize of the 1999 Gina Bachauer International Young Artists Piano Competition. Schimmel proudly held this same honor in 1996 and 1997.
Classic Series
Konzert Series
What sounds like a pedantic obsession with detail is the basis of rich tonal worlds for the piano experts at Schimmel: all 88 hammer-heads of each upright and grand piano are pricked with voicing needles several ten thousand times by hand in a painstaking process to form the versatile tonal coloring of our instruments.
For many people, thirteen is a mystical number. This number certainly provides Schimmel instruments with a magic gloss. This is because we utilize a traditional piano varnish which is applied in thirteen work phases with around one and a half kilogram per square meter and is primarily further processed by hand to produce high gloss. This is how we produce the unique gloss and the special depth effect which are so characteristic for our instruments.
At Schimmel, the characteristics of the hammer-head felts which have an influence on the composition of the tone are examined meticulously. The density and weight of the felt, its tension and simultaneous flexibility, the type of wool utilized and how this wool is processed, the correct way of cutting the felt and the way in which it is moulded: these aspects are all vital to ensure that our hammerheads transfer the energy of the player's touch to the resonating strings in an optimum manner.
