http://chicagopianoservice.com/did-you-know.html hourly 1 1970-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://chicagopianoservice.com/pc_url_10793667 <p class="plain"><img width="320" src='http://0101.nccdn.net/1_5/0ad/220/110/12681264261926532.png' bmargin="0" height="240" border="0" daid="5651956" tmargin="0" lmargin="0" rmargin="0"></p> <p class="plain">Steinway & Sons  still bends the inner and outer rim of their grand pianos by hand at the Steinway factory in Astoria Queens New York. In a method used for over a century, 18 layers of hard rock maple, each 22' in length are glued together then bent to the classic Steinway piano shape in an ingenious piano vise rim press. The press was patented in 1878.</p> <p class="plain"></p> <p class="plain"><a link="" target="_blank" href="http://www.steinway.com/factory/" class="plain">Photo courtesy of Steinway and Sons </a></p> chicagopianoservice 2010-03-09T01:21:20-08:00 Steinway & Sons