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Steinway & Sons is a piano maker, founded 1853 in New York City, with a second factory established 1880 in the city of Hamburg, Germany. Both Steinway factories have undergone great changes, and still make Steinway & Sons pianos today.
Founded by the Steinweg family of piano manufacturers, having first arrived in the United States from Germany in 1850, the company grew quickly after its founding in 1853. It was forced to move to a new premise within a year, and occupied its own factory by the early 1860s. In 1880 a Steinway Village was founded as its own town in what is now Long Island City, providing a new factory with its own foundries, post office, parks and housing for employees. Its early successes have been credited both to the high quality of its instruments as well as the brilliant marketing behind the company, including its showroom and the Steinway Hall. Steinway Street, one of the major north-south thoroughfares in the Astoria and Long Island City neighborhoods of Queens, is named after the company.
The company is currently known as one of the world's premier manufacturers of high-quality pianos. After merging with the Selmer Company in 1995, its current affiliates include the Boston and Essex lines of pianos.