Green-Wood Historic Fund-PIANO speak walk

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The Green-wood Historic Fund presents:

James Barron’s Piano: The making of a Steinway
concert grand
Saturday, December 2, 2006 at 1:00 PM
The Historic Chapel @ Green-Wood Cemetery

The Green-Wood Historic Fund proudly presents New York Times
staff reporter James Barron, author of the newly published and acclaimed book Piano: The Making of a Steinway Concert Grand.

In Piano, Barron tells the story of one Steinway & Sons piano’s creation from raw lumber to finished instrument—an 11-month journey through the Steinway factory where tradespeople carry on traditions begun more than 150 years ago by the immigrant family who founded Steinway & Sons. Each piano, handmade in Steinway’s “anti-manufacturing” process, is proof that time-honored techniques continue to create
the gold standard of musical instruments in today’s automated world.

Barron’s presentation will be followed by a walk, led by the author and Green-Wood Historian Jeff Richman to the Steinway family mausoleum.

Admission is free but space is limited.
Call for reservations (718) 768-7300.

The Green-Wood Cemetery: Main entrance is located at
500 25th Street (on 5th Avenue) in Brooklyn. Via subway, take the R to the 25th Street station