American Made Pianos

An Outstanding Manufacturing Tradition

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Steinway & Sons

Factory Location: Long Island City, New York
Serial Number Dates: 1865 - present

History:

The Steinway & Sons Piano Company is perhaps the best known and well respected piano company in the world. Its fame is well deserved, not only for the excellence of craftsmanship, but also for several technological advances in piano making (e.g. full iron plates, accelerated action, diaphragmatic soundboard, "Permafree" Action, "Hexagrip" pin block). The first factory was built in 1854 in New York City. The company also made square grands, but they were discontinued in 1923.

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Information source: Pierce Piano Atlas

The Resonance of a Continent: The American Piano Tradition

The American piano manufacturing tradition is a story of unparalleled craftsmanship meeting the boundless natural resources of a new world. At its heart lies the selection of materials—most notably the vast, old-growth spruce forests of the Pacific Northwest and the Northeast. These superior stands of Sitka and Adirondack spruce provided the tight-grained, resonant timber essential for crafting the world’s finest soundboards, offering a tonal depth and "singing" quality that European makers envied. Combined with a relentless spirit of industrial innovation, American makers refined the overstrung scale and the heavy cast-iron plate, creating instruments of such structural integrity and powerful projection that they redefined the modern piano.