At 10 feet 2 inches and $140,000, it is 14 1/4 inches longer and almost $50,000 more expensive than a Steinway concert grand.

Part of the problem was the museum's small music room and his big Steinway concert grand.

How do you take a Steinway concert grand up to the height of the Olympian gods?

The sounding board, more than any other of the 12,000 parts that make up a Steinway concert grand, will largely determine whether No.

The standard is straightforward: If there are fewer than 10 grain lines to an inch, the wood is not good enough for a Steinway concert grand.

And Mr. Charlap had a specific piano in mind: a nine-foot Steinway concert grand.

It contained a fine Steinway concert grand, a few chairs and music-stands, some shelves of music and books, and that was all.

Gabriela Montero played a Steinway concert grand piano, model D-274.

Mr. Dichter started playing his nine-foot Steinway concert grand.

The mechanism that will make the keys on Steinway concert grand piano No.