Projected:​ A history of celebrated Canadian piano manufacturer Heintzman & Company.

Vintage Heintzman decal, c. 1900.

​Part of the mythology of North American piano manufacturers is the idea that Heintzman & Co. founder, Theodor Heintzman, and Steinway and Sons founder, Henry Steinway, may have crossed the Atlantic on the same ship when they emigrated from Germany in 1860. Steinway settled in NYC, Heintzman in Toronto. Both brands are legendary, at this point Steinway more universally known. That said, Queen Victoria praised a Heintzman grand in the Royal Albert Hall, and the world's most expensive piano, the Chinese-made Heintzman Crystal Piano, was auctioned to a private bidder in 2009 for twenty-two million yuan (US$3.22 million, CDN$4.28 million). 

​On the topic of pianos, this is, in my view, the best piano version of the Beatles' Now and Then (this one performed on a Steinway grand): 

https://youtu.be/xCUad-j6XfI