Piano: The Making of a Steinway Concert Grand,
by James Barron
Surprisingly interesting biography of a Steinway concert
grand from raw lumber to its first appearances in a concert hall. The story of
its creation over an 11-month period, much by old-fashioned manufacturing
methods, is interspersed with a brief history of the piano, significant
changes over the years, and stories about the Steinway employees who built
this incredibly complex instrument, originally known as K0862 but changed to
CD-60 when the decision was made to put it on the concert circuit instead of
selling it. Its public debut was made by Jonathan Biss in the Irving S.
Gilmore International Keyboard Festival in Kalamazoo, MI. Currently it spends the concert
season at the Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium at the Met.
-Nancy
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