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...Mary writes to Castelnau thanking him for a portrait of her son. Compared with earlier pictures, he looks different....
..., and the American maker Steinway & Sons....
...So with a Spirio R piano and a big TV, the illusion of a virtuoso playing live for you is not far off complete....
...The living suite is furnished with a Steinway grand piano – Arnault is himself an accomplished player, and his second wife, Hélène Mercier, is a concert pianist (she sometimes plays with her sons Alexandre...
...But we had a gem, with a butler’s pantry full of Waterford crystal, Wedgwood and exotic tea sets of the thinnest porcelain; original Stickley furniture in the dining room; the two Steinway concert grands...
...The Steinway & Sons grand piano (estimated at $30,000 to $50,000) that the couple bought in 1949 is one of the highlights of the sale and was played to accompany artists such as Nat King Cole, George Burns...
...It was the Steinway & Sons piano showroom, built in 1925 and just across from Carnegie Hall. Rachmaninoff once played there. A historic landmark, the building was protected from development....
...Not grand or materialistic at all.”...
...At the end facing the garden sit two Steinway grand pianos, covered with more portraits of Waterman hobnobbing with the great and the good....
...My family have long been fans of this grand pub, with its outside tables, views to Thieveley Pike and a patch of field for games....
...But, as Sabine Höpermann continues, making Steinway grand pianos is a perfect art. So why change it?...
...A Steinway grand piano. But I’d need a big enough room, and the time to learn to play properly. What’s your biggest extravagance? I like a nice suit. Otherwise I’m pretty monk-like....
...Dressed in an open-necked, white shirt and navy suit, Barzun leads the way into the main drawing room, adorned with exquisite Chinese wallpaper, deep sofas and a Steinway grand piano once played by Nöel...
...Neither, but as a musician, I do like to have a good piano. I have one of the three Steinways I know of in the world that have been through both the American and German factories....
...There is a white Steinway “John Lennon” grand piano, and glass-lined lifts. One corridor in pseudo-medieval style with a suit of armour is lined with mosaics....
...grand piano maker....
...US hedge fund manager John Paulson has entered into a bidding war for grand piano maker Steinway Musical Instruments, according to people familiar with the matter, leaving private equity group Kohlberg &...
...Grand piano sales in China, the largest piano market in Asia, have increased annually since 2005....
...But he has hitherto rented a favourite piano from Steinway’s showroom or flown in an instrument from Italian company Fabbrini....
...Pianomania () is about an overworked international piano tuner. Now there’s an idea for Sylvain Chomet....
..., Inc’s only link with the family is the surname, retained for marketing reasons along with the famous Steinway & Sons lyre logo....
...Most of the great pianists of the past century have been here to choose from Steinway’s vast range of concert grands....
...baby grand....
...They must be interested in or willing to learn music (a Steinway grand piano is being shipped to Erzurum), and must sit final examinations set by Cambridge University....
...Simultaneously, renowned instrument makers such as Steinway & Sons have boosted their China operations. In developed countries such as Japan, up to a quarter of households own pianos....
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