Samick Piano Advantage

Discover a unique experience. The best of European engineering by Bechstein, combined with the Korean Manufacturing prowess of Samick has produced a range of unequalled grand pianos. We encourage you to come see and play the new SAMICK ‘NSG’ grand pianos. 

Samick NSG Pianos feature half-duplex scale design

In recent years performance pianists have been demanding more and more volume from their pianos. As a consequence, piano engineers developed the ‘duplex’ scale design. In technical terms, duplex is where the small section of the strings between the tuning pins and the agraffes is designed to add extra volume, with the hope that the extra harmonics will be in tune with the note that is being played.

The end result is that although full-duplex pianos do generate more volume, they also generate more extraneous noise and dissonant harmonics.  While extra volume is beneficial in a concert piano being played on stage, it becomes quite wearing in the typical home music teacher setting or in smaller studios

To address this important problem, the Samick NSG pianos have been designed with a half-duplex system.  If you look inside the Samick NSG grand pianos, you will see red felt woven through this section of the strings. The reason for the felt, is to stop the noise and dissonant harmonics that are generated in full-duplex designed pianos.

The Samick NSG pianos do not produce extraneous harmonics and consequently sound more like classic German grand pianos. We believe this is a sound that, as a music teacher, you can enjoy day in and day out without becoming tired and jaded from any extra unwanted harmonics.