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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...
...Piano from Mozart to Bartok (Beveridge Webster; Perspective). The house of Steinway's 100th anniversary this year gives a chance to lump a music-hall variety program (Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Weber, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Liszt, Brahms, Debussy, Bartok) on one disk. Versatile Pianist Webster runs the gamut without stumbling and with considerable brilliance...
...tall and weigh 67 Ibs. When I stand sideways I disappear."). But the big deal in the show comes when Red takes his "raving microphone" and interviews his hepcat audience against a background of teen-age screams. Most of his fans identify themselves with Blanchardisms (e.g., "I'm Steinway Bogardus, the poor man's Liberace" or "I come from Parumph, the biggest city in the world, very nervous and mixed...
Borge uses one prop-his piano-and as he says, "The Steinway people have asked me to announce that this is a Baldwin." Borge may begin by playing "Happy Birthday" as Bach, Brahms, or Berlin would have written it, or he may ask for requests. In the latter case, he will make appropriate substitutions for the numbers he can not play: the lady who asked for "Doggie in the Window" had to be content with "Trees...
...Models. Their first big move was to introduce the small, low-priced ($500 and up) spinet, which has almost entirely replaced the oldfashioned, lumbering upright and the high-priced grand piano. (Manhattan's famed Steinway & Sons, however, still concentrates half its output on grand pianos, from $2,700 up, for the carriage and professional trade.) The second big step was to offer a wide selection of pianos. Chicago's mass-production piano makers, such as Wurlitzer, Kimball, and Story & Clark, now offer from 30 to 50 different styles and finishes apiece. Story & Clark, which last year brought...