Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
The Steinway Saga The Steinway Saga D. W. Fostle The place was Manhattan, where none were more despised than Germans, and there the man who called himself a farmer planted the seeds of a legend that still lives nearly one and one-half centuries lat… OL17318781W
Piano Piano James Barron This book is an exploration of the people and the legendary craftsmanship behind a single Steinway piano. Alone among the big piano companies, Steinway still crafts all of its pianos largely by hand,… OL178454W
The music box The music box Suzanne Guy The story of Bartolomeo Cristofori, the Italian harpsichord maker who invented the piano while working in the city of Florence about three hundred years ago. OL1899384W
Steinway & Sons Steinway & Sons Richard K. Lieberman The first book based on the rich archive of Steinway business and family papers at LaGuardia Community College in New York, as well as on interviews with family members and company employeees in the … OL2919404W
Piano 300 Piano 300 Cynthia Adams Hoover "On March 8, 2000 the National Museum of American History opened Piano 300 in the Smithsonian's International Gallery in Washington, D.C. Celebrating the tricentennial of the piano's invention in Flo… OL8695430W