Author: James Barron
Publisher: Times Books
Keywords: grand, concert, steinway, making, piano
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2007-05-29
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0805083049
ISBN-13: 9780805083040

“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, wh

Author: Miles Chapin
Publisher: Amadeus Press
Keywords: amadeus, piano, steinway, making, keys
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2006-10-15
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 1574671529
ISBN-13: 9781574671520

More than 500 people are involved in the creation of just one of the world’s greatest pianos, the Steinway. From the selection and aging of wood to the delicate voicing of the finished instrument, this special reissue of 88 Keys - The Making of a Steinway Piano relates the story behind the instrument’s intricate formation, as told by Miles Chapin, a fifth-generation descendant of Steinway’s founder, Henry Engelhard Steinway. Readers will learn about how the piano gets its trademark curve, the "belly men" who fit the metal harp to the wooden frame, the carvers who shape the p

Author: James Gibbons Huneker
Publisher: Amadeus Press
Keywords: composers, paintings, collection, steinway
Number of Pages: 54
Published: 2005-12-01
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 1574671154
ISBN-13: 9781574671155

Music lovers will delight in the beautiful color paintings and eloquent prose portraits in The Steinway Collection: Paintings of Great Composers. Chopin, Wagner, Liszt, Beethoven, Berlioz, Mozart, Verdi, Mendelssohn, Handel, and Schubert are among the composers celebrated in this historic book, which was originally printed in 1919 as an in-house publication of Steinway & Sons but has never before been released to the public. The paintings by esteemed American artists and accompanying essays by the brilliant critic James Gibbons Huneker are intended, in Mr. Huneker’s words, to "evoke