Used Charles Walter 1520 Riviera Oak Console

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$12,500.00
$4,995.00
$4,995.00
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One Private Owner



Console Specifications

We have listed some of the Walter 1520 unique features, but the pleasing tone, the playability, the excellent tuning stability and the ease of tuning, are also outstanding features and are impossible to photograph.


  • Number of keys
  • 88
  • Number of dampers
  • 72
  • Height
  • floor to keybed, 23 3/4"
  • Action
  • full size studio (direct blow) - Renner or Walter
  • Hammers
  • 14#, reinforced, mothproofed, Australian felt
  • Key
  • 16 3/16" long, 1" tall plus keybutton; individually weighted
  • Key material
  • basswood
  • Key covering material
  • white-ivorine (acrylic resin) black - Phenolic resin; longer grand size
  • Keybed thickness
  • 1 5/8" butcherblock construction
  • Keybed material
  • Poplar
  • Plate
  • grey iron casting finished in special bronze - O.S. Kelly - Ohio - Steinway owned
  • Speaking length of longest string
  • 48 1/2" (overall length 57 1/8")
  • Soundboard
  • close-grained Sitka or Bavarian Spruce (not laminated)
  • Size of soundboard
  • 37 3/16" x 56 1/4," 2090 square inches
  • Pinblock
  • 29 ply delignit
  • Tuning pins
  • 2/0 x 2 1/2," nickel plated head, blued thread
  • Pin torques
  • 100 to 200 inch pounds
  • Back posts
  • 5 (2 1/2" x 3 1/2") Sitka Spruce
  • Pedals
  • 3(soft, base sustain, full sustain)
  • Pedal material
  • solid brass
  • Casters
  • steel
  • Hardware
  • solid brass
  • Cabinet material
  • Mostly 5 ply lumbercore throughout
  • Mouldings
  • solid walnut, solid cherry, solid oak, solid mahogany
  • Lustrous cabinet finishes
  • numerous coats of stain, wood filler and lacquer, painstakingly rubbed by hand, produce the deep luster of Walter cabinets... comparable to the finish of the finest furniture.
  • Cabinet dimensions
  • Height 43 3/8," depth 25." Add 3/4" to depth and 1 1/4" to width for French Provincial and Queen Anne.