April 23, 1996

Steinway & Sons employees Salvadore J. Calabrese, Henry A. Scarton, S. Frank Murray, Christopher M. Ettles, Warren C. Kennedy, Saim Dinc, Bessem Jlidi, and William Strong receive the United States patent #5,509,344, to the “Member With Synthetic Surface Replicating a Surface of a Specimen of a Natural Material”.