The Steinway Mansion was recently put up for sale for $3.5 million in 2011.

He sold the estate to William for $127,500. The Mansion overlooking Bowery Bay on Long Island Sound was owned by Benjamin T.

In 1871, William purchased the Steinway Mansion.

In 1867, Steinway became the first American manufacturer to receive the “Grand Gold Medal of Honor” at the Paris piano exhibition.1867, William Steinway estimated that 90% of American Piano output was square pianos, 5% were uprights and 5% were grand pianos, he also characterized that grand sales were 'scarce as angels' visits.'.Steinway & Sons opened the first Steinway Hall on 14th Street in 1866, which had an auditorium of 2,000 seats.In 1863, Henry Steinway became an American Citizen.

By 1859, Steinway's least expensive piano sold for $275.for the Overstung Plate, where by the longer bass strings were drawn over sections of other strings. On December 20, 1859, Patent #26532 was granted to Henry Steinway Jr.This piano, Serial #1225, is believed to be the first ever Steinway Art Case piano. In 1857, a piano was created with a lavishly carved case and legs.By 1856, Steinway & Sons sales rose to 208 pianos for the year, from 74 just 2 years before in 1854.By 1854, just a year after founding the company, Steinway & Sons was making 2 pianos a week, and sold 74 pianos for the year.It is now displayed at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. 483, was sold to a New York family named Griswold for $500. In 1853, the family decided to Americanize their name to “Steinway” The company’s first piano, serial no.In 1853, the family decided to Americanize their name to “Steinway”.On March 5, 1853, Steinway & Sons was founded, setting up shop on Varrick Street on the West Side of Manhattan, manufacturing square grand pianos.Heinrich Engelhard Steinway and his family would emigrate to the United States in 1850.Heinrich would build 482 pianos over the next decade.The piano is currently on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In 1836 Heinrich Englehard Steinway built his first piano in the kitchen of his home in Seesen, Germany which is commonly reffered to as the “Kitchen” piano.159 Facts About Steinway And The Pianos They Build

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