Stein me away

As the end of the year draws to a close and juries, music theory finals and end of the semester recitals loom, I have been spending more and more of my time locked in the lovely practice rooms of Lewis and Clark College. As a college junior I have mastered the art of procrastinating, and thus, most of this time is spent not practicing for these very important examinations. This morning, as I was sitting in a practice room, wishing I were somewhere else, I began to stare at the Steinway & Son's logo, printed right above the keys on the rickety Steinway I had been practicing on.
The logo, which looks like this:



Baffled me for some reason. It may have been the many hours of practicing, but why is the logo a harp? Why isn't it some kind of pianoy thing? So I went in search of where this random logo came from.

Unfortunately, despite my finely tuned (pun intended) musicological research skills, I could not find the source of the logo. I did however find out many interesting facts about Steinway and Son's pianos. Such as:

-Each Steinway piano is completely handcrafted from start to finish, the strings are hand strung, and each hammer is calibrated by hand.
- All of the wood for one Steinway comes from the same tree (to guarantee continuity and sound)
- All the felt on a Steinway's dampers comes from a single long piece, each piece of felt is hand fitted to a damper by a trained Steinway technician.
- Each key is individually calibrated for a consistent feel

Find out more! Watch it happen!

http://www.steinway.com/factory/