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...today's conflicts, friendly fire is a growing risk. In the last Gulf War, 35 of the 146 Americans killed in action, or 24%, died at the hands of their allies. In previous wars, the percentage was much lower. Although precise data are hard to come by, Kenneth Steinweg, a U.S. colonel who studied U.S. Army War College records, estimated in 1995 that comparable rates, based on the best-documented battles, were 16% in World War II, 11% to 14% in Vietnam and 13% in Panama...
...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...
...Since 1850 when Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg left Germany to set up business in New York, the House of Steinway has been a closed corporation, run by men who were either Steinways by birth or marriage. The first piano Heinrich made had two strings. He gave it to his wife for a wedding present...
...Josef Hofmann exquisitely played his own "Sanctuary" (composed under the name of Dvorsky); millions listened on the radio. Among the guests, with bustling pride, moved four gentlemen who have made their money in the piano business-Henry, Theodore, William, Frederick Steinway (TIME, June 29), grandsons of the original Heinrich Steinweg...