The Artists' Choice
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That you are considering bringing a Steinway into your life speaks of an appreciation of quality and a desire to enhance the pleasure you take from music. As you move forward with your decision, we invite you to apply a simple, revealing test. Sit down at the keyboard of a Steinway, bring your most loved music to mind, and play.
It is the way the world's most accomplished pianists have selected their performance instruments for over a century.
Their choice has been Steinway, because the quality of the sound and responsiveness of touch is simply unsurpassed.
The Steinway Artists
Today, more than 90 percent of the world's active concert pianists — over 1,300 artists — bear the title "Steinway Artist". Each owns a Steinway. All choose to perform on Steinway pianos exclusively. Importantly, none are paid to do so; their only inducement is the unrivaled sound and responsiveness of their Steinway pianos.
The Choice of Music Educators
Many of these artist received their essential musical training on Steinway pianos, for Steinway pianos are also the instrument of choice at the world's most prestigious music schools — a large number of Steinways are currently in use, for example, at Juilliard, Oberlin College, Yale University, The Curtis Institute of Music, Carnegie Mellon University, Hochschule fur Musik und darstellende Kunst Stuttgart/Germany, Hochschule fur Musik Cologne/Germany, Conservatorio S. Pietro a Majella, Napoli/Italy, Conservatoire de Lausanne, Lausanne/Switzerland, Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris/France, Conservatoire National de Region, Toulouse/France, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester/U.K., Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Glasgow/U.K., Tokyo University of Music & Fine Arts, Geidai/Japan, and Toho Music University, Tokyo/Japan.
In some institutions, Steinway is the only piano used in concert halls and practice rooms.
For good reasons. The unsurpassed sound and response, which so enchant concert pianists, also permit longer practice with less fatigue and allow students unbridled freedom of musical expression. The Steinway pianos are both superb musical instruments and durable enough to sustain years of intensive use with grace.
For almost 150 years Steinway has set the world standard for piano quality. And, Steinway & Sons is as dedicated as ever to bringing that standard to life through a careful combination of steady innovation and skilled craftsmen working with the finest materials.