Sound of Harmony
Sound of Harmony is one of the world's most expensive grand piano, a Steinway & Sons art case piano built by Steinway's factory in Hamburg, Germany, in 2008 for €1.2 million.[1] At the time it was the world's most expensive initial purchasing price for a piano, however it has since been overtaken by at least two other Steinway grand pianos: the Fibonacci Piano in 2015 and ‘Pictures at an Exhibition’ in 2017, both of which cost roughly twice as much as Sound of Harmony.[2] It took Steinway about four years to build the piano.[1] The piano is decorated with inlays of 40 different woods, including the lid which replicates artwork by Chinese painter Shi Qi.[3][4] The piano is owned by the art collector Guo Qingxiang and was chosen for use at the Expo 2010 Shanghai China.[1][5]
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- ^ "Sound of Harmony" Archived 2012-09-22 at the Wayback Machine, Steinway & Sons Official Website. Retrieved August 16, 2011.
- ^ "'Sound of Harmony' piano to make Expo music". Expo 2010 Shanghai China. Tencent Inc. November 29, 2008. Retrieved August 29, 2011.
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