WALTHAM, Mass. – Steinway has been sold for about $499 million and will again become a private company. The company struck a deal with Paulson & Co., the investment firm founded by John Paulson, for ...

Pianos. People love having them around. My dad's a prime example; he doesn't think a house is a home until it's got a piano in it. Never mind the fact that he can barely play chopsticks – his own ...

The latest grand piano from the legendary Steinway company uses an iPad which allows you to record your performances, correct any mistakes and then play back the perfect version on the piano itself.

Deep in the basement of the Steinway Piano factory on Steinway Street in Astoria, Queens, a man presses his thumb to a small biometric scanner attached to the wall in a darkened hallway next to a ...

When Henry Engelhard Steinway immigrated to the U.S. from Germany in 1850, he certainly had ivories on the mind. But it’s doubtful the Steinway & Sons founder imagined a $2.5-million piano, much less ...

It doesn’t matter how many hundreds of thousands of dollars you shell out for an audiophile-grade home stereo, a recorded piano performance will never sound as good as a live one on an actual piano, ...

The black and white keys move so fast it’s hard to tell if Jenny Lin is even touching them. Lin, a classical pianist known for virtuosic speed, is sitting at a grand piano in Steinway’s New York ...

When Steinway & Sons announced it was selling Steinway Hall, its flagship home on West 57th Street for nearly 90 years, to make room for a luxury condominium tower in 2012, not everyone was happy. "It ...

Steinway Musical Instruments -- the venerable maker of pianos and other classical-music instruments -- is celebrating its 160th anniversary this year and has given itself the gift of a new owner. The ...