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Steinway & Sons, also known as Steinway (/ ˈstaɪnweɪ / ⓘ), is a German-American piano company, founded in 1853 in New York City by German piano builder Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg (later known as Henry E. Steinway). [2][11] The company's growth led to a move to a larger factory in New York, and later opening an additional factory in ...
Steinway Musical Instruments, Inc. is a worldwide musical instrument manufacturing and marketing conglomerate, based in Astoria, New York, the United States. It was formed in a 1995 merger between the Selmer Industries and Steinway Musical Properties, the parent company of Steinway & Sons piano manufacturers. From 1996 to 2013, Steinway Musical ...
Steinway Vertegrand. The Model K or " Vertegrand " is an upright piano introduced in 1903 by Steinway & Sons. It is the oldest essentially unchanged upright piano design currently in mass production. Although production was interrupted from about 1939 until its reappearance in 1982, the structural design has remained essentially the same for ...
D-274 that exemplifies the products of Steinway's factory in Hamburg, Germany. D-274 (or D) is the model name of a concert grand piano, the flagship of the Steinway & Sons piano company, [1] first built in 1884. [2] [3] It is generally described as the first choice of most concert pianists. [1]
Steinway New York introduced the "Upright Grand" scale design in 1894 with the 54.7" Model I, replacing the "Cabinet Grand" series consisting of the slightly smaller Model F and the slightly larger Model G. [1] Steinway Hamburg followed in 1897 with the nearly identical 138 cm Model R. In North America, the Model I competed with similarly sized ...
Sound of Harmony is one of the world's most expensive grand piano, a Steinway & Sons art case piano built by Steinway's factory in Hamburg, Germany, in 2008 for € 1.2 million. [1] At the time it was the world's most expensive initial purchasing price for a piano, however it has since been overtaken by at least two other Steinway grand pianos ...
Founding the piano company Steinway & Sons. Signature. Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg, anglicized name Henry Engelhard Steinway, (February 22, 1797 – February 7, 1871) [2] was a German-American piano maker who made pianos in both Germany and the United States. [3] He was the founder of the piano company Steinway & Sons. [4]
Gerhard Oppitz in 1989 recorded a complete traversal of the solo piano music of Johannes Brahms on an Imperial Grand. [33] Awadagin Pratt more recently recorded Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, his own transcription of Bach's Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 582, and Brahms's Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel on an Imperial ...