![]() Achieving the perfect piano black is an exacting process. This is evidenced by the fact that the majority of piano sales today are finished in high polish black.īut how do they achieve this mirror finish? Piano parts are not dipped in some magically smooth plastic coating and come out looking this way. In recent decades, with the advancement of technology and engineering, piano finishes have been perfected and there is now an association with “modern piano” as being black. ![]() But jet black has been overtaken by “piano black” as the example for the deepest, darkest, smoothest finish of comparison. It was referenced as the benchmark for black as early as the 1700’s. Have you ever heard someone describe an object as being “jet black”? Jet is derived from the French word “jaiet”, a process that dates back to the 1300’s where lignite (a type of coal) was polished to a deep sheen.
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