Why Do People Love Steinway Pianos?

Technicians & Artists Will Tell You

"Steinway is indisputably the benchmark by which all other pianos are measured," says Michael Sweeney, a piano craftsman for over 30 years. "I love working on Steinway grand and baby grand pianos because there is a consistency of quality I've found in every Steinway piano I've ever worked on, and this is true even after the abuse of time and customer neglect."

Sweeney goes on to say that, in his 30 plus years of bringing older grand pianos back to life through repair and restoration, he estimates that over 95 percent of the artists he has had as clients, as well as the technicians he has employed, prefer Steinway over all other piano brandnames. "If they don't own a Steinway," says Sweeney, "chances are they dream of having one someday."

"What makes repairing or rebuilding a Steinway so enjoyable is that the company has brought all the very best design features and technological advances together into a single machine. Such quality actually gives the instrument character, personality. Steinway pianos are truly works of art."

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Can You Name It? / Parts of a Steinway Piano

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