Steinway Pianos

Steinway Pianos is a page provided information about the Steinway brand, history, and piano types of the brand.

Steinway Pianos are a Piano manufacturing company based in the US and Germany. The popular piano manufacturer Steinway & Sons touts a handcrafted instrument utilizing high-quality craftsmanship and materials.

The brand was established in 1853 by Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg, who had moved from Germany to the US in 1850. Steinway Pianos opened a factory and employee village is what is now called Astoria in Queens, New York City. The company subsequently opened a factory in Hamburg, Germany in 1880.

Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg's slogan was: "To build the best piano possible". Steinway had three core values at the heart of the brand, these were:"Build to a standard, not a price", "Make no compromise in quality", and "Strive always to improve the instrument".

1. Legendary Collectionhttp://www.steinway.com/steinway/legendary_collection.shtml
2. Art Case Collectionhttp://www.steinway.com/steinway/artcase_collection.shtml
3. Limited Edition Collectionhttp://www.steinway.com/steinway/limited_edition_collection.shtml
4. Crown Jewel Collectionhttp://www.steinway.com/steinway/crown_jewel_collection.shtml
5. Grand Pianos and Verticalshttp://www.steinway.com/steinway/catalogue/models.shtml

Steinway makes two more affordable budget brands, Boston Pianoshttp://www.steinway.com/boston/ and Essex Pianoshttp://www.steinway.com/essex/. Essex is the least expensive of the two and is produced in Korea and China. The Boston brand offers grand pianos and upright pianos. Around 5,000 are produced each year out of Kawai's factory in Japan.

The following list provides the worldwide retail locations of Steinway Pianos:

1. Steinway Hall, 109 W 57th Street, Manhattan, New York, NY, 10019, USAhttp://www.steinwayshowrooms.com/steinway-hall
2. Steinway Piano Gallery, 314 N. Robertson Blvd, West Hollywood, California 90048, USAhttp://www.steinwayshowrooms.com/spg-hollywood
3. Steinway Piano Gallery, 501 Post Road East, Westport, Connecticut 06880, USAhttp://www.steinwayshowrooms.com/spg-westport
4. Steinway Piano Gallery, 4104 Ponce de Leon Blvd, Coral Gables, Florida 33146, USAhttp://www.steinwayshowrooms.com/spg-miami
5. Steinway Piano Gallery, 455 Route 17 South, Paramus, New Jersey 07652, USAhttp://www.steinwayshowrooms.com/spg-paramus
6. Used Piano Gallery, 505 Walt Whitman Road, Melville, New York 11747, USAhttp://www.steinwayshowrooms.com/spg-long-island
7. Steinway Hall, 44 Marylebone Lane, London, W1U 2DB, United Kingdomhttp://www.steinway.co.uk/
8. Steinway Haus-Hamburg, Rondenbarg 15, 22525 Hamburg , Germanyhttp://www.steinway-hamburg.de/
9. Steinway Haus-Berlin, Hardenbergstraße 9, 10623 Berlin, Germanyhttp://www.steinway-berlin.de/
10. Steinway-Haus Munchen, Landsberger Straße 336, D-80687 München/ Laimhttp://www.steinway-muenchen.de/
11. Steinway-Haus Dusseldorf, Immermannstraße 14 - 16, 40210 Düsseldorf, Germanyhttp://www.steinway-duesseldorf.de/

• Note: The following information is from Steinway & Sons

• Maintaining the Steinway Sound - Tuning Voicing and Regulating

• Living With Your Steinway Piano

• Steinway History

• Factory Tour