Ask any concert pianist whether they would rather play a Steinway & Sons piano or a Yamaha, and I’ll bet you a season ticket to the Opera House in London’s Covent Garden that they would nod for the former. When I chatted with just such a virtuoso several months ago, he was smitten with the Steinway. “It’s not that the Japanese brand is inferior,” he stressed. “It is world class, and the sound is …

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