Etymology

Steinway

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Today it means: A piano made by Steinway & Sons, a German-American piano company founded in 1853 in New York City by German piano builder Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg. Full definition →

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The story

From the surname of the piano maker, a German immigrant to Manhattan whose original surname was Steinweg.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.