The Steinway Piano Gallery of Michigan Newsletter
January 2010
Winter Clearance
In Progress Now
Quality Used Pianos, Trade-ins & Digital Pianos At Great Savings
The winter season is here and we’ve gone through our entire showroom marking down prices on all our high quality trade-ins, slightly used pianos, and pianos used in teaching studios and from musical venues throughout the city. We’re also selling off all Roland digital piano inventory at ½ of the retail price. We’ll have special financing available, too. There’s nothing like playing a piano inside a warm house or studio on a cold winter day. And while you’re playing, you’ll have a warm feeling knowing how much you saved during our Winter Clearance Event.
For more information call us at
248-560-9200.
Concert Raises Over $4,800 For Adrian Public Schools Piano Drive
Nearly 600 people attended Adrian Schools Educational Foundation’s benefit concert, “Isn’t It Grand!” to raise money needed to buy a grand piano for the Adrian High School performing arts center, much like the one loaned to them for the concert by the Steinway Piano Gallery of Detroit. See more details and video here!
Our Current Events
A Toast To The Nat "King" Cole Trio Live At Steinway Piano Gallery
On Wednesday, January 27, 2010 The Paul Keller Trio will present its new program:
A TOAST TO THE NAT "KING" COLE TRIO at the Steinway Piano Gallery!
String bassist Paul Keller, pianist Steve Richko and guitarist Ralph Tope will perform many of the Nat "King" Cole Trio's greatest hits (Sweet Lorainne, Little Girl), their intricate arrangements (Sweet Georgia Brown, Paper Moon), familiar standards (Mona Lisa, I Love You For Sentimental Reasons), and lesser known gems (Beautiful Moons Ago, I'm Lost, I Know That You Know) as well as a few of the PK Trio's nifty original charts of "King" Cole tunes (Nature Boy, Just You Just Me).
The members of the Paul Keller Trio enjoy singing in the "gang vocal style" popularized by the Nat "King" Cole Trio through songs like Straighten Up And Fly Right, Hit That Jive Jack, Bring Another Drink and The Man On The Little White Keys.
Admission to this event is $10.00 and the show is from 7:00 PM till 9:00 PM.
The Steinway Piano Gallery is located at 2700 E. Maple Road (at M-5) in Commerce Township, MI.
Detroit Symphony Autographed Steinway
The Detroit Symphony and Steinway Piano Gallery have partnered to create a very special Steinway Piano. The Piano is a Model A 6’2” Steinway in ebonized finish and is currently located in the Donor Lounge at Orchestra Hall.
All handcrafted Steinways are highly desirable, but this piano is unique because throughout the 2009-2010 season, it’s plate will be autographed by all the solo pianists performing with the DSO. Imagine owning a Steinway signed by these famous artists.
Already, the instrument has been signed by Grammy award winning artist, composer and band leader, Michael Camilo, The internationally renowned pianist, Joseph Kalichstein, and more recently Kirill Gerstein, 2010 recipient of the 2010 Gilmore Artist Award. This unique piano will be a priceless treasure for years to come and is available for purchase with a portion of the proceeds benefiting the Orchestra.
For more information about this very special piano, call Wilbur Miller at 313-515-3425.
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Steinway Model D 9 ft Concert Grand Selection Event-Hill Auditorium-
Ann Arbor, Michigan
On Wednesday, January 20th, Steinway Piano Gallery is leasing the stage of Hill Auditorium on the University of Michigan campus where the first-ever North American regional Steinway Concert Grand Steinway Selection conducted outside the New York factory will be held.
Steinway & Sons New York is shipping Steinway Concert Grands direct to the stage at Hill Auditorium with the goal of accommodating Michigan Institutions and individuals that were not able to schedule a workable January selection date in the New York factory.
The selection will also include four treasured Concert Grand pianos from the Michigan Concert & Artist Bank. These instruments include CD50, CD888, CD557, CD265 and have been played by some of the world’s finest pianists including Emanuel Ax, Michael Boyd, Alfred Brendl, Kazimierz Brozozowski, Kevin Cole, Harry Connick Jr, Richard Goode, Arthur Greene, Joel Hastings, Martin Katz, Lang Lang, Panayis Lyras, The Mack Sisters, Mark Markham, Louis Nagel, Garik Pederso, Flavio Verani, Menhem Pressler, Joel Schoenhals Peter Serkin, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, James Tocco, Ralph Votapek, Stephen Zegree and many, many others.
Selection Date & Hours: Due the Hill Auditorium schedule, we will only be able to accommodate a total of five selections at this event occurring every two hours on Wednesday, January 20th beginning at 9 a.m.
Reserve your time by calling Wilbur Miller, Michigan’s Steinway Institutional Director at 313- 515-3425 or sending us an email with the time you are requesting.
Ann Arbor Holiday Showroom Updates
In November we opened our temporary Ann Arbor holiday showroom and it’s been thrilling to meet so many piano lovers in the area and welcoming many new customers into the Steinway family. Our lease on the Ann Arbor temporary showroom is ending but before we move inventory back to our main showroom, we'll be conducting one final sale event where we’ll be selling all of the high quality used pianos recently taken in on trade and where you can still acquire a Steinway, Boston or Essex piano at factory-direct savings.
For information or details on the dates of this event, call:
734-327-8810.
Patent of the Month
#1214237 Sostenuto Pedal
Did you know…
This month in the year 1917, Theodore Steinway, son of founder Henry Steinway, received the patent for his new invention: the Sostenuto Pedal. A pianist himself and creator of many improvements to the instrument, Theodore added this third pedal to the grand piano in order to allow players to express a longer, more legato-style line in music. When depressed, the pedal sustains only those notes which are depressed at the same time, allowing future notes played to be unaffected. The sostenuto pedal can be found in the middle between the damper and soft pedals, and it is abbreviated in written music as “Sost. Ped”, “S.P.” or “ThP”.
“Steinway is the only piano on which the pianist can do everything he wants. And everything he dreams.” –Vladimir Ashkenazy
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