1.   All pianos today are made with full cast-iron plates.

2.   Hederman smokes fish, which is a little like saying Steinway makes pianos.

3.   Such advancement has made the piano, the third largest household investment, appreciate in value even more than it has throughout time.

4.   The square piano is made like the clavichord, where the strings run lengthwise.

5.   Which makes the piano he designed for it doubly important, as a design triumph as well as a souvenir of an epoch-shaking moment.

6.   Yamaha is not the only company that makes computerized pianos.

7.   The senior Steinway, along with sons Henry Jr., William and Charles, began making pianos by hand in a Varick Street loft.