Word: steinweg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...