Word: heinrich
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Speakers will include Dr. Heinz L. Krekeler, the German Ambassador, Thomas Dudley Cabot, former State Department Director of International Security, and Dr. Heinrich Schneider, Professor of German literature...
...return to the workers' paradise in his homeland, was finding life less heavenly than ever. Already forbidden to grind out propaganda under his own byline, Eisler had now been kicked out of his imposing villa. The villa's new tenant: East Germany's Deputy President Heinrich...
...first Steinway piano took eleven years to build; it was just a sideline for Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg, cabinetmaker in the German town of Seesen after the Napoleonic wars. But it turned out to be the best piano in Seesen. Heinrich Steinweg and his sons gave up cabinetmaking and decided to make the best pianos in the world...
Double Tension. Founder Heinrich and four sons moved to New York a little more than a century ago, changed Steinweg to Steinway, and set out to win a U.S. reputation. A second-generation Steinway was responsible for some 45 pioneering patents, some of them so revolutionary that one of his pianos caused almost riotous excitement at the Paris exposition of 1867. The Steinway's most important innovation: the combination in a grand piano of a rigid cast-iron frame with "overstringing." The first permitted near doubling of string-tension. The second carried the treble strings diagonally across the center...
Production Policy. From the day old Heinrich set his sons to work, a Steinway has always stood at-the company's helm, with one or more others ready to replace him: all the men of the family are raised to the business, beginning with the requirement that every Steinway boy must take piano lessons. Steinway presidents do not retire. Four of the five top executives since 1853 have died in the job, and their successors were quietly chosen at family councils. Today there are seven Steinways of the third, fourth and fifth generations in various departments, led by Theodore...