Most pianos rely only on the soundboard, but a Bösendorfer is built like a violin. The entire body supports the sound. Craftsmen use 10 mm quarter-sawn spruce, specially grooved so it can be bent to the silhouette of the inner rim. This unique construction makes the whole instrument acoustically active, giving your music an incredible richness and brilliance.

The foundation of every grand is high-altitude spruce. Bösendorfer use over 80% spruce tone wood, more than any other maker in the world. This wood isn’t rushed; it is naturally air-dried for six years. The sun, wind, and seasons prepare the timber for its final purpose: to resonate with perfection.

This is the sound for the next generation. Bösendorfer VC technology provides vivid colors and energetic dynamics, giving you a mechanical action that is both powerful and incredibly precise.

Whether you are playing a whisper-soft pianissimo or a powerful fortissimo, the action is designed for optimal control. Developed alongside artists and technicians, it is built to capture every tiny nuance of your performance.

Bösendorfer doesn’t mass-produce their strings. Every bass string is spun by hand in the traditional Bösendorfer way, wrapping a steel core in copper to create that warm, deep bass sound.

Bösendorfer are the only manufacturer that uses a detachable, independent Capo d’Astro in the upper register. This allows us to make extremely precise adjustments, ensuring that the original, beautiful sound is preserved for generations.

Iron frames are forged using traditional sand casting in Austria and left to rest outside for six months to release internal tension. For tuning stability, the open pinblock uses three layers of quarter-sawn maple glued cross-grained, settled on a base of red beech and finished with walnut.