His status is so well-known that iconic piano-maker Steinway specially commissioned a Lang Lang-branded piano.
Steinway Hall opened in 1925 and is located on West 57th St. in Manhattan.
Most attribute Steinway's success to clever marketing as well as to the quality of its pianos.
An 1866 Steinway grand piano sits under the 40-foot cathedral ceiling in the great room.
In 1932, the eminent pianist Josef Hofmann came to America and chose the Steinway as his piano.
Steinway, blue jeans peddler Levi Strauss, real estate wheeler-dealer Donald Trump and electrical industry pioneer George Westinghouse.
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How do you make an instrument as recognizable as a Steinway concert grand come alive in unique fashion?
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The result was Steinway's crowning achievement, the 1876 Centennial, which became the prototype for all future Steinway concert grands.
Aspects of that action were later incorporated by Steinway into their new instruments.
Some aficionados believe the result is a softer, more intimate sound than an American Steinway or a Japanese Yamaha.
Lang played the red Steinway grand, which he was auctioning off on his Web site to raise money for earthquake victims.
In corporate news this week, Steinway Musical Instruments (LVB) announced on Wednesday that it was no longer putting itself up for sale.
In this session, you'll hear a Steinway grand like never before.
Theodore Steinway, was in Europe in 1873, Liszt asked him for a piano that had the greater volume and sound quality he wanted.
When you walk through the front door, you're immediately in our living room where we have two Steinway grand pianos and Corky's two harps.
Sweeney said that over the next year or so the company will be working on creating plans for a new Steinway Hall in Manhattan.
It takes about a year to build a Steinway from 12, 000 components and eight different kinds of wood including maple, birch, spruce and poplar.
Meanwhile, Steinway thrived in America, establishing a near-monopoly in concert grands.
He already has endorsement deals with Audi, Montblanc, Sony Electronics, Adidas, and Steinway, and in August he will be seen advertising their wares, on television and on billboards.
And yet, the Titanium interior is pretty artful, a sinuous composition in soft-touch materials, alloy-like painted trim, textured fabric, that piano-black plastic assuming your Steinway is made by Mattel and lots of electrons.
The Quin in Midtown, has foregrounded luxury and art in its promotion, with a comparatively subdued midcentury aesthetic, drawing structural inspiration from both nearby Carnegie Hall and the Steinway piano showroom.
Not only do students receive a full scholarship but, like all keyboard students, Lang got his own Steinway grand in his rooms a far cry from the unheated hovel in downtown Beijing.
A. system on a cruise ship as it passed through the Panama Canal, and written on the history of bourbon whiskey and the making of Steinway pianos, among many, many other things.
On his instructions, Steinway's chief technician shaved the piano's hammers so they would be even lighter, and rearranged some parts so that a single note could be repeated in an almost machine-gun-like fashion.
An MTA spokesman said late Monday night that water had reached into all five subway tubes that stretch under the East River between Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn and the Steinway tube between Midtown and Queens.
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And if we look at the names that loom large in American history, Frederick Steuben, but many leading leaders of the German -- of the American business community, Guggenheim, Steinway, Strauss, Singer -- all of these German names.
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Worldwide his influence has inspired millions of children to take up the piano -- it's called the " Lang Lang effect" -- and a variety of highly sought-after goods now bear his name, including Steinway's only personally-branded piano.
The deal gives Steinway, which is best known for its pianos, the right to occupy the building rent free for 14 months after closing and to extend the occupancy an additional four months subject to an agreed upon rent.
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