Word: steinway
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...called on to interpret a work he can find the idea in his own mind, and yet he invariably realizes the ideal of the author. He always copies from a true model. If he wants to draw an old-fashioned spinet he does not paint a cut down Steinway Grand, but he gets the real article without any regard to trouble or expense. One great reason of his success is his innate personal refinement...
...This instrument was invented almost simultaneously, by three men of different nationalities, about 1715. It was the outcome of the impatience which was felt at the limitations of the other instruments, in which no variation of volume could be secured. After the lecture, Mr. Arthur Freidheim played on a Steinway Concert Grand a number of pieces by Chopin and Liszt, showing the remarkable superiority of the pianoforte over its predecessors, in the matter of varying the amount of tone...