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Piano: The Making of a Steinway Concert Grand

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Much More Than How a Piano is Built
The best thing about this book is that it actually makes riveting reading. I read it from cover to cover like one would a good novel and was disappointed when I got to the end. This is because it is written well and clearly, and the author brings in just enough of his own personal experiences and anecdotes to make it seem real and human. This book may be less meaningful to you if you are not a piano player, but I'm not a piano player and admit to a secret life-long curiosity about how pianos work. James Barron includes so much atmosphere and quirky character in his book "Piano - The Making of a Steinway Concert Grand" you will be as charmed as I was whether you know one note from another or not. This book not only demonstrates why each piano is as individual as a person, but also contains charming descriptions of the scores of people involved in its birth and development into a grand concert stage presence. This is a real treat of a book to curl up with in an armchair, and...
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August 1, 2006 (East Hampton, NY USA) | Helpful Votes: 27 | Rating: 5

A Must-Read for All Music Lovers and Others
I was afraid I was going to dread this book. I have absolutely no interest in building things or taking them apart, and I feared it was going to read like a really technical how-to manual. To my delight, it is not like that at all. PIANO reads like a novel or a good biography. It introduces the people who made that one piano and the people before them who designed it, and it talks about how that one piano turned out. I don't think you could do a book like this about other "machines"---for example, an airplane or a dishwasher. A piano is terribly mechanical, it turns out, but it's really an instrument. It has its own personality--different from every other piano ever made. I thoroughly enjoyed PIANO.
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August 15, 2006 (New York, NY) | Helpful Votes: 14 | Rating: 5

Excellent gift for your piano playing friends....
I am a pianist and was recently given a copy of this book. It is well-written with many fascinating stories that are of interest to anyone, but particularly to pianists who want to understand the mystique and history of the Steinway Concert Grand. This book follows a particular piano through the approximate 11 month period that it take to build the instrument. It describes the worksmanship involved in lucid detail that anyone would appreciate. This title also presents an interesting history of the ups and downs of the company. Any pianist or music lover would certainly appreciate this engaging book. It certainly raised my awareness and appreciation for why these instruments cost so much and sound so great!
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November 20, 2006 (Livermore, CA) | Helpful Votes: 15 | Rating: 5

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"Satisfying to the point of sensuousness."
--The New York Times Book Review

Like no other instrument, a grand piano melds the magic of engineering with the magic of great music. Alone among the big piano companies, Steinway & Sons still crafts each of its pianos largely by hand, imbuing each one with the promise and burden of its brand.

In this captivating narrative, James Barron of The New York Times tells the story of one Steinway piano, from raw lumber to finished instrument. Barron follows that brand-new piano--known by its number, K0862--on its journey through the factory, where time-honored traditions vie with modern-day efficiency. He also explores the art and science of developing a piano's timbre and character before its debut, when the essential question will be answered: Does K0862 live up to the Steinway legend? From start to finish, Piano will charm and enlighten music and book lovers alike.

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The Official Guide to Steinway Pianos

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great for me, maybe not for you.
I enjoyed finding this book, and am proud to include it with my collection of reference material. I restore Steinway grands professionally, so this book is very useful to me. It contains many hard to find facts and old production specs that have been debated for years. If you are a piano technician, you need this book. Buy it. If you are a pianist looking for a buyer's guide or interesting history book, do not waste your money. This book has no entertainment value at all. It does not translate well to layman's terms, and has no stories to tell. Allatoona Piano restoration.
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October 9, 2011 | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5

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The Official Guide to Steinway Pianos is a compendium from the archives of renowned piano maker Steinway & Sons to encompass - for the first time - reference material and details from 16 decades of Steinway piano making in New York. Thirty years of research and compilation by authors Roy F. Kehl and David R. Kirkland bring to light with thorough precision the production history of Steinway pianos. A "family tree" of Steinway production history provides in-depth, complete historical listings of every model produced and their characteristic details, with first/last serial numbers and production dates, individual scale studies for major models, highlights of important changes and events in Steinway piano production by serial number and date, a gallery of Steinway decalcomania by years, a table of Steinway patents, and tables of historic Steinway steel wire sizes. The Guide is an indispensable tool for piano technicians and dealers who need to determine the relationship of a particular Steinway piano within the historical framework of the company's overall production, as well as a means to help identify, establish the provenance of, and verify and preserve the originality of any given Steinway piano. Through compilation of pinpoint information, the Guide offers an accurate and fascinating resume of Steinway & Sons' ongoing production history. Top to learn more

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People and Pianos: A Pictorial History of Steinway & Sons (Amadeus)

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Published by Amadeus Press 180 Pages
Author: Theodore E. Steinway
A Pictorial History of Steinway & Sons by Theodore E. Steinway

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A remarkable narrative, especially recommended for piano enthusiasts
First written in 1953, People And Pianos is a chronicle of the history of Steinway & Sons, an institution famous for creating great pianos. The original edition was a memento to commemorate the company's 100-year anniversary; now a new edition is made available to the public, filled cover-to-cover with vintage black-and-white photographs and illustrations as well as an update by Bruce Stevens that continues the saga of Steinway & Sons to the present day. Personal reminiscences on maestros such as Ignace Jan Paderewski, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Josef Hofmann, Glenn Gould, Rudolf Serkin, Dame Myra Hess, and Arthur Rubinstein by Henry Z. Steinway, the last family member to be involved in the business, are included. A remarkable narrative, especially recommended for piano enthusiasts interested in knowing the inner details of an institution that took upon itself the task of creating great and complex musical instruments.
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November 5, 2005 (Oregon, WI USA) | Helpful Votes: 5 | Rating: 5

history of the Steinway piano and the companyy that made it
This is a reprinting of the book written by Theodore Steinway on legal pads that in 1953 was given to Steinway and Sons employees as a commemoration of the company's one hundredth anniversary in the U.S. The original book was reprinted in 1961 with minor additions. This reprinting expands the earlier limited-printing editions with a 40-page section with material by Henry Steinway and the president of Steinway and Sons Bruce Stevens recounting the history of the company over the last 50 years. Both old and new parts are heavily illustrated with photographs of noteworthy individuals and Steinway pianos from different eras. Readers learn why and how the Steinway piano came to be and continues to be the preferred piano by almost every top music performer and composer around the world.
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November 14, 2005 (Southport, CT) | Helpful Votes: 7 | Rating: 5

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This is the story of how the Steinway piano came to be the instrument of choice for the world's greatest pianists. In 1953, Theodore Steinway wrote this narrative in longhand on yellow legal pads as a tribute to his father and to commemorate the first 100

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An interesting scrapbook of Steinway
Relatively recently updated, this book is a brief and sugar coated, but very interesting history of the Steinway & Sons company, arguably manufacturer of the finest pianos in the world. The black and white photos (not terribly well reproduced) give a sort of scrapbook character to the piece. For the piano officianado who appreciates the character of a Steinway, it is a nice little history of the Company.
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May 12, 2007 (Akron, Ohio USA) | Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 4

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Hamburg Steinway Model D-274 Ebony Polish Concert Grand Piano

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Hamburg Steinway Model D-274 Concert Grand Piano
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Hamburg Steinway Model D-274 - (# 0720 - Located in New York City,)

(8' 10 1/2" 274cm) Concert Grand Piano Ebony Polish (Polyester) Brass Hardware, Brass Key & Lock, Red Plate Trim, Massive dual-wheel 50 mile radius of Pro Piano purchasing site, free tuning, on site regulation and voicing. This is basically the TOP PIANO IN THE WORLD... the one that artists will pay to play... the one that has a TRUE intrinsic market value... below which one cannot generally be purchased. (This IMV is UNIQUE in all the piano industry... and is basically a fact only when referencing the Hamburg Steinway Model D-274. "The price is the price.") Actually, D 0720 represents but one of nine to fourteen (9-14) Hamburg Steinway Model D-274s in our inventory (San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York). They range in age from 6 years to a little more than 7 months (2003 all the way to 2007). This Model D-274 is a serious concert piano, used regularly by the major artists of the world for recording, recitals, orchestral and chamber engagements, etc. Top to learn more

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Steinway and Sons

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The best book on Steinway's history and its pianos
Lieberman is the director of the archives that house the Steinway collection, and writes as a knowledgeable insider. The history of the family and its pianos is told, from its beginnings in Germany, up through the sale to CBS and the Birminghams (the sale to the Selmer Company in 1995 happened after the publication of the book.) As a bonus, there's a great history of Yamaha pianos and its fierce competition with Steinway. It's well-written and there are numerous photos. This is great reading, and a wonderful resouce for anyone interested in music or pianos.
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September 6, 2000 (Amherst, NH USA) | Helpful Votes: 11 | Rating: 5

Steinwway & Sons is a superb family and social history.
Steinway & Sons is a rich, absorbing history of a business dynasty that stayed vital over six generations. Lieberman astutely analyzes the twin forces of creativity and hard-nosed business sense that made and sustained Steinway's preeminence as the concert piano of choice. This richly anecdotal book does not shy away from the dark side of the family's history-- its contempt for the piano workers, its unthinking patriarchy, even its active cultivation of the Nazis in Germany during World War II. (In America Steinway emphasized its patriotism by draping its conert hall with American flags and publicizing the Steinway sons who were serving in the American armed forces.) In this balanced account, Lieberman takes pains to catalogue the family's numerous contributions to the conert piano's evolution, as well as its unceasing promotion of the finest artists. The Steinways' mixture of creative technical innovation, fine musical taste and ruthless business practices makes...
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March 28, 1999 (Framingham, Massachusetts) | Helpful Votes: 9 | Rating: 5

State of the Art
Steinway & Sons, by Richard K. Lieberman, is considered to be the ultimate treatise on the history of the Steinway piano at M. Steinert & Sons of Boston. (Lest there be any confusion, M. Steinert & Sons was a piano manufacturer in its own right before the Great Depression of 1929, retaining its name now as the oldest piano dealership in the nation.) Lieberman's book is suggested reading at every Steinway dealership in the world, and although I've been tuning and teaching for over 30 years, I just now decided to sit down and read this book that was released sixteen years ago. But what of that, as the story begins 214 years ago? The book is exceptionally well written and chock full of facts and historical information. It should be required reading in our history classes, for it covers the Napoleonic Wars of the early 1800's, the Civil War of 1861-65, WWI, riots, strikes, the Spanish Influenza of 1918, the formation of unions in the 1940's, WWII and the role a Steinway member...
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December 2, 2011 | Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 5

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The Steinway - once called the "instrument of the immortals" - is considered by many as more than the pre-eminent American piano. It is also a symbol of "Old World" craftsmanship combined with American capitalism, of technological innovation, and of remarkable family management. This study tells the story of the Steinway piano company and the people behind it. Based on the archive of Steinway business and family papers at LaGuardia Community College in New York, as well as on interviews with family members and company employees in the United States, Germany and England, the book describes the making and marketing of an American cultural icon. Founded in New York in 1853 by a German immigrant, the Steinway company quickly rose to prominence on the strength of the distinctive "Steinway sound". For five generations Steinways steered their company in the face of domestic and foreign competition, bitter labour disputes, temperamental musicians, a fluctuating economy, and wars. Members of the Gilded Age elite, the family also contended with adultery, alcoholism, emotional depression and long court battles over money. Lieberman discusses the company town the Steinways built in Queens in the 1870s, to "escape the machinations of the anarchists and socialists" in the city; the decision to manufacture in both New York and Hamburg, which led to Steinway factories supplying both sides in World War II; the improvements in piano technology that made the Steinway the envy of other piano makers; the company's creative marketing techniques, such as booking celebrated European pianists into American concert halls; the competition from the Japanese-owned Yamaha company; and the sale of the financially troubled company to CBS in 1972. Weaving together themes from social, music, business, labour and immigrant history, and illustrated with pictures from the Steinway archive, this text aims to cast light on American cultural history and on a family enterprise. Top to learn more

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Note by Note: The Making of Steinway L1037

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Fabulous
The title may be a little misleading, read as an 80-minute informercial, but it's not (disclaimer -- I prefer Kawai to Steinway). Instead, the movie is a touching and educational flick about the making of pianos in the heart of NYC. It celebrates the soul inherent in the handmade object. Personal stories are interspersed throughout, keeping us emotionally attached to the tradesmen who are part of the piano making process and the accomplished pianists, both young and old, who act as consumers. My favorite part is when one of the pianists explains how he first became enamored by the piano through watching Tom and Jerry cartoons and he plays a flamboyant rendition of a Liszt piece that will give you a good chuckle.
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September 26, 2009 (Tallahassee) | Helpful Votes: 15 | Rating: 5

The Making of a Miracle
This is a truly marvelous documentary that should appeal to anyone with musical interests. Even more than the celebration of a miraculous musical instrument, it is the honoring of the diverse, inner-city craftsmen and women who lovingly and skillfully craft these musical wonders called Steinway pianos. The building of this particular piano - unglamorously titled L1037 - is interspersed with episodes of some famous and diverse pianists dropping into the Steinway showroom to select just the right piano for their next performance. Featured are classical artists Helene Grimaud, Pierre-Laurant Aimard and Chinese dynamo Lang Lang (who is hilariously impromptu and impressive here) - as well as some jazz artists as Harry Connick Jr. I'm not a pianist, but I can easily imagine how special it is to play a Steinway Grand, especially one that ideally suits your tastes. (I suspect playing an Italian Fazioloi Concert Grand would also inspire the same). Seeing the...
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November 5, 2009 | Helpful Votes: 5 | Rating: 5

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NOTE BY NOTE:MAKING OF STEINWAY L1037 - DVD Movie Top to learn more

Not quite sure . . .
It is all going to depend on your expectations of the video whether you like it or not when you have finished viewing it. Is the video "made well"? Yes - in fact, it is a beautiful story. However, if your expectation of this video is thatyou will know: 1) how a piano is made from start-to-finish, and; 2) what differentiates a Steinway PIANO from other piano-shaped instruments, I think you may not be 100% satisfied. Owning a Steinway and having been to both the factory and Steinway Hall, there is a lot that this film is NOT. If you want to know about the heritage of the Steinway, if you want to see the generations of ethnic workers carrying on a tradition, you will probably like "the story". It is also a bit of an "infomercial" for Steinway, but I'd hope they wouldn't use it as a primary sales tool! So - if you are passionate about the piano or music and you want to add something to your library --- go ahead and it's probably worth what you'll spend for a USED copy (getting one...
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April 24, 2010 (Boulder, CO) | Helpful Votes: 14 | Rating: 3

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Steinway Piano

Steinway are often most recognised for their impressive grand pianos but they also make upright pianos, art case pianos and a selection of custom made pianos. Since 1853 some of the worlds most striking and high quality pianos have been made by the world renowned piano manufacturing company Steinway & Sons. As well as being the worlds most revered creators of some of the worlds most sought after pianos, the factory of Steinway and Sons is in itself a tourist attraction. It has been said that a Steinway Piano is the most intricate thing built by hand in the whole world, containing 12000 parts per instrument (Business Week). The privileged tour of the factory can take up to three hours and you will be able to witness the manufacturing of a Steinway and Sons piano from start to finish, all for free.

The collection of pianos that you can find from Steinway includes grand pianos, upright pianos, limited edition pianos and art case pianos. Steinway piano store also categorize their pianos according to where they are best suited as there are pianos for indoor functions like the ones that are used just for pleasure in the house, and those that are used for commercial purposes in... It is true that there are several piano stores from where people can get pianos, however the Steinway is a piano store of the kind where quality and performance are prime features. A great number of concert artists, pianists, composers and performers across the globe have always used Steinway pianos in their activities, mainly due to the versatility and style with which the pianos are crafted. That is why over the years, the Steinway pianos have remained the number one choice of pianos for many musicians across the world, both professional and recreational. As a piano manufacturer for the past one hundred and fifty years, Steinway is a renowned name for the creation of the most versatile and finest pianos in the world. Steinway piano has a wide selection of pianos that will find a fit for every need. With Steinway pianos, you surely will not be let down with the number of options and choices, as you realize that every piano is crafted with unique perfection.

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It is also worthwhile to note that Steinway piano stores provide different models of Steinway pianos and it would be wise of you to choose wisely. It is also worthwhile to note that Steinway piano stores provide different models of Steinway pianos and it would be wise of you to choose wisely. It would be better if you can play the piano for some few minutes before you purchase it so that you can have a feel of it. If you are very good at playing piano and are looking for a higher end piano, you should go with an expert who will help... Another important factor that you have to consider whenever you are looking for a piano at Steinway piano is the functionality of the piano. Make sure that you consider the features of the piano that you want to purchase from your Steinway piano store. Then make sure that you understand the cost of the different models of pianos that you find at Steinway piano. How To Choose The Best Piano From Steinway Piano For Music Production. How do you choose the right piano from the wide variety of Steinway pianos that are available on the market today. How do you choose the right piano from the wide variety of Steinway pianos that are available on the market today.

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THE PIANO MAN

“As an end result, you have a much better-sounding piano than those being mass-produced today. “We completely disassemble and restore vintage American-made pianos,” says Norris, hovering over a renovated 1920s Steinway & Sons grand piano.
Hyannis Library hosts Steinway piano Exhibit and lectures

By Anonymous Boston piano expert Philip Schoonmaker will talk on “The Evolution of a Steinway Piano” at the Hyannis Library on Tuesday, Feb.7,at 6:30 pm and again on Saturday, Feb. 25, at 11:30 am in connection with a traveling exhibit, “The Evolution
Crafted in Queens

BOROS: ":" Tour of the Steinway Piano factory at 1 Steinway Place in Astoria, Queens, today January 26, 2012. (Jeanne Noonan/ for ) BOROS: ":" Tour of the Steinway Piano factory at 1 Steinway Place