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...first Steinway piano took eleven years to build; it was just a sideline for Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg, cabinetmaker in the German town of Seesen after the Napoleonic wars. But it turned out to be the best piano in Seesen. Heinrich Steinweg and his sons gave up cabinetmaking and decided to make the best pianos in the world...
Double Tension. Founder Heinrich and four sons moved to New York a little more than a century ago, changed Steinweg to Steinway, and set out to win a U.S. reputation. A second-generation Steinway was responsible for some 45 pioneering patents, some of them so revolutionary that one of his pianos caused almost riotous excitement at the Paris exposition of 1867. The Steinway's most important innovation: the combination in a grand piano of a rigid cast-iron frame with "overstringing." The first permitted near doubling of string-tension. The second carried the treble strings diagonally across the center...
...wing of the party, calling itself the Reformists, realizes the danger and is battling the old-guard bureaucrats for control. Reformist Chief Heinrich Al-bertz, a Protestant pastor and minister in the Lower Saxony Cabinet, would junk the old Marxist catch phrases, and pattern the SPD roughly after the British Labor Party. Albertz argues: "We have good ideas; we are on the right road, but we are unable to speak to the people in their own language. The policy of the present party has as little to do with Marxism as Copernicus does to the 20th century...
...about his empire, pontificated about whatever came to mind. Hitler's Secret Conversations is the stenographic record of these ramblings in the Führer's East Prussian and Russian headquarters between July 1941 and November 1944. They were taken down in shorthand by trusted party officials, Heinrich Heim and Henry Picker, then corrected and preserved by the Führer's factotum, SS Leader Martin Bormann.* Samples...
...which he returned after a military leave of absence in Air Force intelligence. His wartime cover stories include Alexander Novikov, Russia's air force chief, and a Nazi trinity: Heidrich, Rommel and Himmler. Of all his cover stories, says Stockly, the one he enjoyed doing most was Heinrich Himmler: "It was a real witches' brew...