Our August Förster Selection
The characteristic warm, harmonious AUGUST FÖRSTER sound and the voluminous tone development of your instruments are the result of profound experience acquired in a continuous improvement process lasting more than 160 years. A particularly noteworthy result is the soundboard, which has been designed with great care and is unique in the Förster style. The strong cast iron plates of AUGUST FÖRSTER instruments effortlessly absorb the tensile load of the strings (up to 20 tons!). Although the special shape - going back to a patent by August Förster from 1866 - guarantees torsional rigidity to the greatest possible extent, you also build in a solid detent as a strong wooden construction. This results in the proverbial good tuning of your instruments.
More than almost any other company in the world, almost everything at AUGUST FÖRSTER is made by hand. The best materials are used. Legs, consoles and lyres for the pedals are elaborately cut from wood. The detents for the grand pianos are made in a star shape, and the different parts are connected exclusively with wooden dowels. The soundboards, cut from soundboard wood, are ribbed, fitted and installed by skilled craftsmen. The bass strings are spun by hand just as the cast iron plates are drilled, sanded, filled and varnished. Each instrument is thus an individual art product, perfected under the hands of the intoneurs. Specialized and with decades of experience, they give each instrument the unmistakable "AUGUST FÖRSTER sound".
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An AUGUST FÖRSTER instrument is assembled from more than 12,000 individual parts with precision craftsmanship. Many thousands of hand movements, including tricks of the trade that have been handed down over the years, result in a master instrument of the absolute top class - harmonious in form and sound - in a manufacturing process that takes months.
Since 1859, AUGUST FÖRSTER has bundled and refined the experience, the knowledge of the desired variety of sounds, the different playing styles and touch dynamics to convey the soul of the AUGUST FÖRSTER instrument as well as the sound ideas of famous players, which give the instrument its growing value.
The characteristic warm, harmonious AUGUST FÖRSTER sound and the voluminous tone development of your instruments are the result of profound experience acquired in a continuous improvement process lasting more than 160 years. A particularly noteworthy result is the soundboard, which has been designed with great care and is unique in the Förster style. The strong cast iron plates of AUGUST FÖRSTER instruments effortlessly absorb the tensile load of the strings (up to 20 tons!). Although the special shape - going back to a patent by August Förster from 1866 - guarantees torsional rigidity to the greatest possible extent, you also build in a solid detent as a strong wooden construction. This results in the proverbial good tuning of your instruments.
