Resources
Steinway & Sons has a large library of resources spanning music education, administration, and performance.
Steinway & Sons Spirio | r
Spirio | r permits artists to record and listen to performances in stunning state-of-the-art acoustic high resolution — capturing all the nuance, power, and passion on display.
Native to the Spirio app, the Spirio editor provides the world’s only advanced iPad–based high resolution editing capabilities to spirio files, allowing users to edit every nuance of their Spirio recordings.
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Spirio | r is designed to give artists and engineers powerful tools to record, edit, play back, search, and save their performances — leaving them free to focus on the music.
Spirio | r
The Steinway Spirio | r is the world’s finest high resolution player piano capable of live performance capture and playback. A revolutionary blend of artistry, craftsmanship, and technology, Spirio | r provides powerful new tools of expression and new ways to access, share and experience performance — enriching connection and intimacy.
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Steinway | Quality
Spirio | r stores and plays music and videos directly from the instrument, with immediate response and uninterrupted playback. Spirio | r captures the most nuanced musical
passages, precisely reproducing the loudest, softest and fastest notes.
Craft & Science
First and foremost, Spirio | r can be played like any other Steinway, the instrument artists have chosen for over 165 years for its broad palette, warmth and depth of tone, powerful resonance, and unmatched touch response.
Much like the megapixel revolution of the digital camera, Spirio | r offers exclusive high-resolution recording, preserving all the music: every nuanced dynamic level from infinitesimal gradations of hammer velocity, and every shade of resonance from proportional pedaling — now at your fingertips.
The artisans at Steinway & Sons seamlessly install Spirio | r technology at the time of manufacture, ensuring no alteration in the musical performance nor compromise in the instrument’s beauty.
high resolution Recording
Spirio | r permits users to record and listen to performances in stunning state-of-the-art high resolution — with all the nuance, power, and passion on display.
Simple, intuitive controls offer the ability to save and share user-created recordings in multiple file formats:
• Spirio high resolution
• midi
• mp3 high quality sampled audio
World Class Music Library
The thousands of performances from current Steinway artists as well as Spirio Sync videos are available at the touch of a button on the included iPad. Every month the library expands, automatically updated from the Cloud. In addition to today’s greatest musicians, historic performances by Steinway Immortals are available, including Duke Ellington, Glenn Gould, Arthur Rubinstein, Art Tatum, and many more.
High Resolution Editing
Native to the Spirio app, the Spirio editor provides the world’s only advanced iPad–based high resolution editing capabilities to Spirio files, allowing users to edit every nuance of their Spirio recordings.
Spirio editing features include the ability to:
• modify note velocity (dynamic)
• modify note duration (start- and end-times)
• correct wrong notes (remove or replace)
• modify pedal data (sustain and shift)
• delete or add time
Available Models
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Model D
As 8' 11¾" (274 cm) in length, the Spirio | r is available as a majestic Model D, the pinnacle of concert grands and the overwhelming choice of the world’s greatest pianists and for anyone who demands the highest level of music expression.
Complimentary iPad Pro® included.Length — 8' 113/4" (274 cm)
Width — 613/4" (156 cm)
Weight — 990 lbs (480 kg) -
Model B
As a Model B, this Spirio | r is a magnificent 6' 11" (211 cm) grand, often referred to as the “perfect piano.” It’s a wonderfully balanced and versatile instrument that does extremely well in intimate settings, teaching studios, and mid-sized venues.
Complimentary iPad Pro® included.Length — 6' 11" (211 cm)
Width — 58" (148 cm)
Weight — 760 lbs (345 kg)