The C. Bechstein Digital Solutions for Third-Parties

The complete one-stop solution for leading companies in the piano industry.

With the VARIO ecosystem, C. Bechstein offers a truly unique, highly modular and technically excellent package that can be customised exactly to your requirements.

Starting digitally made easy
Our portfolio is instantly ready for your sale: choose from our available products and start with a simple customisation.
Go Premium: Customization packages
Additional customizations available from hardware features up to your own exclusive sampling. Our service includes product management with a dedicated contact person and guaranteed long-term availability.
Service and new features
For continued success and maintenance of your product, we offer customized SLAs (Service Level Agreements, worldwide availability). If you wish, you can also benefit from our ongoing development of native apps for iOS & Android.
Expand your business online: join the VARIO Network
Become a selected partner and participate in C. Bechstein’s online features! Join our growing network and become part of an expanding world of services specifically for the piano market; with hybrid learning applications like doozzoo.com and dedicated cloud-features for your customers – plus in-depth insights into the use of your instruments.

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The VARIO silent system as in our Zimmermann lineup

The Mechanics

Silent Piano Mute- / Stop-Rail

Fully adaptive to your pianos hardware, also for older models
Super-close to the strings, < 2 mm; most musicians do not notice any difference to the touch of a purely acoustic instrument
For Upright pianos and Grand pianos on request

High quality components, made in Germany
Long-term availability

The Electronics

Best-in-class Digital System

1 GB of storage for your sounds
dozens of customizable sound-features (mechanical noises, damper behavior, equalization, ambience effects and much more)
Ultra-precise optical sensor system, captures even lightest movements of keys or pedals
3 pedal support: Soft, Sostenuto & Sustain, Half-Pedal-Support
Built in metronome & recording functions
Simple and intuitive One Button User Interface (UI)
Robust and low-latency MIDI via Bluetooth LE

The Software

Exceptional user experience for your customers

Complete Control of the Silent System: Sound-Selection, OTA-Firmware-Updates, Calibration-Modes and much more

App-Theming with custom UI-Elements: change all colors, use your logo, customize typography
Full support for iOS, iPadOS and AndroidOS mobile devices

Additional PREMIUM features

Your customers will love you!

Bespoke featureset available via Apps (for Android, iOS / iPadOS, macOS and Web)
Extensive collection of knowledge documents, product documentation (manuals, step-by-step instructions) for your end customers
Training material for technicians

Also available on request:

USB-C Power Delivery: 40 watts to external devices
USB-C connectivity (MIDI I/O)
USB-C connectivity (Audio I/O)
Enhanced Bluetooth connectivity: Audio-Input

Even more features

Optical sensor system, highly adaptive to your pianos hardware
88- and 85 keys calibration
Fully controllable via MIDI

Your developers will love you!

Custom Bluetooth-Name
Custom USB-Device name
Custom MIDI-Vendor-ID
Custom LED Color (RGB) on the Device’s User Interface (Control-Knob)

Optional: International apps roll-out service available
Optional: In-Depth, on-device analysis-features
Optional: In-Depth piano-usage-analysis (fully pseudonymised, 100%-GDPR compliant)

Your. Unique. Sound.

A complete digital piano sound-set is available: Grand, Upright plus all typical instruments like Organs, Strings, Choirs and exceptional Layered Combinations.

Plus: custom studio sampling plus sound-programming is offered by our highly specialized team in our exclusive C. Bechstein Recording Studio – working on premium piano sounds for more than a decade!

Contact our sales team

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