Steinway

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A piano made by Steinway & Sons, a German-American piano company founded in 1853 in New York City by German piano builder Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg.

    "After supper — which is a lengthy, spoon-fed, dribblesome business — he likes to play Schubert or Brahms on the Steinway in the conservatory."

Etymology

From the surname of the piano maker, a German immigrant to Manhattan whose original surname was Steinweg.

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