Ciresa,
the international tonewood
reference point
In a corner of the soundboard, above the right hand of the pianist sitting at a Resonance Piano, you can see the elegant logo Ciresa.
Perhaps outside the borders of our country there are not many people who know Tesero, the village in the Fiemme Valley that has been home to our artisan workshop for decades, but it is enough to name “Ciresa” to attract the attention of the most experienced musicians, piano designers and master luthiers from all over the world. You can in fact find the same logo on the soundboards of thousands of pianos and other musical instruments in the world: here, in the midst of the enchanting woods that are not by chance called “forests of music”, wood has been playing for a long, long time.
Seventy years of service
to natural music
The resonant spruces of the Fiemme Valley, the beautiful and over a hundred-year-old trees that rise up into the sky between the Lagorai chain and the Dolomites, were carefully selected already by Stradivari for the manufacture of his famous violins.
Ciresa could not but born here, among the enchanting pillars of this open-air music temple. The company was founded in 1952 by Enrico Ciresa, after valuable experience in piano companies such as Schulze Pollmann. At first, the attention of Enrico and his skilled craftsmen focused on the construction of keyboards for pianos, then of harmoniums, with a production that has been internationally appreciated for a long time. Subsequently, with the progressive decline of the demand for harmoniums, the company has specialized more and more in the selection of the best tonewood and in the making of piano soundboards.
Arch. Manuel Knycz di MANGO Design
e Fabio Ognibeni di Enrico Ciresa s.r.l.
The voice of the best pianos
Fazioli, Bechstein, Schulze Pollmann, Blüthner, Pleyel, Sauter, Kawai, Förster and Petrof: about two hundred thousand pianos in the world have played and continue to play through the soundboards skilfully and patiently produced here, by our expert craftsmen.
Passing through the timber yard, where the tonewood is naturally dried by the winds that run along the valley, and through the different areas of our workshop, it is possible to follow step by step the production of the soundboards. They are from time to time different, according to the needs and requests of the technicians for the different models.
An innovation in the wake of tradition
Today, thirty years after the death of the founder and the beginning of the second generation management, the Ciresa workshop continues to preserve the size and spirit of a small artisan reality, focusing every day on a production that is limited with the aim of the highest quality. It is precisely from the uninterrupted research on the properties of the precious tonewood that Resonance Piano is born, an intriguing evolution of what Ciresa has already done through the Opere Sonore. In both products the protagonist is the wood that plays, introducing a revolution starting from the past, with a innovative bridge between the digital and acoustic worlds.