In 1864 William Steinway, the son of Henry E. Steinway who is credited with establishing Steinway's remarkable success in marketing, built a set of elegant new showrooms housing more than 100 pianos on East 14th Street in Manhattan, New York City.

Georges Ammann, concert technician with Steinway's factory in Hamburg, said, " We were getting a lot of complaints from pianists all over the world – they said that getting their pianos tuned was a disastrous process every time and that the local technicians were hopeless.

The film presents Steinway's chief piano tuner and concert technician for the Vienna-area, Stefan Knüpfer, in his work with pianists such as Lang Lang, Alfred Brendel and Pierre-Laurent Aimard.

Steinway's contract with Rubinstein called on him to give 200 concerts at the then unheard-of rate of 200 dollars per concert ( payable in gold — Rubinstein distrusted both United States banks and United States paper money ), plus all expenses paid.

More than a third of Steinway's patented inventions are under the name of Theodore Steinway.

In 1903 the 100, 000th Steinway grand piano was given as a gift to the White House ; it was decorated by the artists Thomas Wilmer Dewing and Maria Oakey Dewing under the supervision of the head of Steinway's Art Piano Department, Joseph Burr Tiffany.

In April 2005, Steinway celebrated the 125th anniversary of the establishment of Steinway's factory in Hamburg, Germany.

Some of Steinway's most notable art case pianos are the Alma-Tadema grand piano from 1887, the 100, 000th Steinway piano from 1903, the 300, 000th Steinway piano from 1938 and the Sound of Harmony from 2008.

Boston pianos incorporate some of the features of Steinway pianos such as a wider tail design ( a feature of the Steinway piano models A-188, B-211, C-227 and D-274 ) resulting in a larger soundboard area than conventionally shaped pianos of comparable sizes, a maple inner rim, and Steinway's patented Octagrip pinblock.

Some great pianists of the past and some active pianists today have expressed a preference for Steinway pianos produced at Steinway's factory in New York City or at Steinway's factory in Hamburg.

The New York and Hamburg factories exchange parts and craftsmanship in order to " make no compromise in quality ", in the words of Steinway's founder Henry E. Steinway.

The soundboards found in Steinway pianos are double-crowned and feature Steinway's Diaphragmatic design.

The Steinway Artist program has been copied by other piano brands, but Steinway's program is still unique in that a pianist must promise to play pianos of the Steinway brand only to become a Steinway Artist.

Since 1936, Steinway too has arranged competitions and festivals such as the Steinway Young Artist Competition in Chicago, Steinway's piano competitions in Hamburg and Berlin, and the Steinway Piano Festival in Denmark, which is a part of the International Steinway Festival.

* The world's most expensive grand piano is a Steinway art case piano built by Steinway's factory in Hamburg, Germany, in 2008 for € 1. 2 million.

* William Steinway's diary, family tree of the Steinway family, photos and more in The National Museum of American History

More recently, Fazioli has modified Theodore Steinway's original idea by creating a stainless-steel track, fixed to the cast iron plate, on which aliquots slide.

A modern piano manufacture, Fazioli ( Sacile, Italy ), has blended Steinway's original ideas by creating a stainless-steel track, fixed to the cast-iron plate, on which individual aliquots slide.

* Boston: made for the general mid-ranged piano market at lower prices than Steinway's name brand.

The pianos for the " piano bank " are selected by Steinway's experts.

* The world's most expensive grand piano sold at auction was built by Steinway's factory in New York City in 1883 – 87 ; it sold for $ 1. 2 million in 1997 at Christie's in London.

Steinway's pianos won several important prizes at exhibitions in New York City, Paris and London.

The first address of Steinway's factory in Hamburg was at Schanzenstraße in the western part of Hamburg St. Pauli.

Steinway's factory in New York City produces six models of grand piano and three models of upright piano.

Steinway's factory in Hamburg, Germany, produces seven models of grand piano and two models of upright piano.

The collection consists of grand and upright pianos in Steinway's traditional design, but instead of the traditional ebony finish the pianos of the crown jewel collection are made in veneers of rare woods from around the world.

Steinway's 88 keys are made of Bavarian spruce.

When these fields are surveyed together, important patterns of relationship emerge indicating a vast community of reciprocal influence, a continuity of thought and expression including many traditions, primarily literary, religious, and philosophical, but frequently including contact with the fine arts and even, to some extent, with science.

Amadee may have owed this partly to his relationship with the king, but Othon, who at sixty seems still to have been a simple knight, merited his position solely by his own character and ability.

The controversy now revolves mainly around the number and geographic origin of the deputies of the Secretary General and, more particularly, around the nature of his relationship with them.

It seems to me that N.C., in his editorial `` Confrontation '' ( SR, Mar. 25 ), has hit upon the real problem that bothers all of us in a complex world: how do we retain our personal relationship with those who suffer??

Du Pont, he said, had proposed disenfranchisement of its General Motors stock along with other restrictions on the Du Pont - General Motors relationship.

The chief experience is the sensing of communion, and in the higher religions, of a harmonious relationship with the supernatural power.

For example, the level of improvement noted in a recent experiment with a short course of immediate treatment for parent-child relationship problems compared favorably with the results reported by typical child guidance clinics where the hours spent in purely diagnostic study may equal or exceed the number of hours devoted to actual treatment interviews in the experimental project.

Similarities to the approach which I have described are evident in the prompt establishment of a helping relationship, quick appraisal of key issues, and the immediate mobilization of treatment plans as the essential dynamics in helping to further the ego's coping efforts in dealing with the interplay of inner and outer stresses.

The newlyweds building homes on the same land with either set of parents, and the almost exclusive use of members of the population as sponsors for baptisms and weddings illustrate this supportive relationship.

When no medical problems exist, the newly married couple generally prefer to cope with the adjustments of their new relationship by themselves.

This dinner was the start of a new blatancy in the relationship between the gangs and the politicians, which, prior to 1924, says Pasley, `` had been maintained with more or less stealth '', but which henceforth was marked by these ostentatious gatherings, denounced by a clergyman as `` Belshazzar feasts '', at which `` politicians fraternized cheek by jowl with gangsters, openly, in the big downtown hotels ''.

The drama itself -- and this seems to be lavishly true of Biblical drama -- often has hardly any relationship with authenticity at all.

but the nicest thing about their relationship was her whisper to him, repeated some thousands of time, repeated with smiles and hope, `` People never live forever ''.

During this time most of what is known as ethnologie was restricted to museums, such as the Musée de l ' Homme founded by Paul Rivet, and anthropology had a close relationship with studies of folklore.

* Argument ( linguistics ), a phrase that appears in a syntactic relationship with the verb in a clause

Nobel's third and longest-lasting relationship was with Sofie Hess who was from Vienna, whom he met in 1876.

Japp is outgoing, loud and sometimes inconsiderate by nature, and his relationship with the bourgeois Belgian is one of the stranger aspects of Poirot ’ s world.

" These result from a direct contact with nature, and through nature a closer relationship to God.

In our current understanding of physics, the Bohr model is called a semi-classical model because of its quantization of angular momentum, not primarily because of its relationship with electron wavelength, which appeared in hindsight a dozen years after the Bohr model was proposed.

Recently, he has been concerned with the relationship between written culture as a whole and literature ( particularly theatrical plays ) for France, England and Spain.

Alder is particularly noted for its important symbiotic relationship with Frankia alni, an actinomycete, filamentous, nitrogen-fixing bacterium.

Angilbert's non-sacramental relationship with Bertha, daughter of Charlemagne, was evidently recognized by the court – if she had not been the daughter of the King, historians might refer to her as his concubine.