Steinway pianos have appeared in numerous records and concerts. A few examples are:
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Ignacy Jan Paderewski performing on a Steinway grand piano waltz in C sharp minor, Op. 64, No. 2, composed by Frédéric Chopin. (Studio recording from 1917).
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Sergei Rachmaninoff performing on a Steinway grand piano waltz in E flat major, Op. 18, composed by Frédéric Chopin. (Studio recording from 1921).
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The White House's Steinway art case grand piano from 1938. Lin-Manuel Miranda (rapping) and Alex Lacamoire (piano) performing The Hamilton Mixtape, composed by Lin-Manuel Miranda, at the White House Evening of Poetry, Music and the Spoken Word. (Concert recording from 2009).
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Harry Connick, Jr. and his band performing When the Saints Go Marching In. Harry Connick, Jr. plays on a Steinway grand piano. (Concert recording from 2010).
“During the cattle drives, Texas cowboy music came into national significance. Its practical purpose is well known—it was used primarily to keep the herds quiet at night, for often a ballad sung loudly and continuously enough might prevent a stampede. However, the cowboy also sang because he liked to sing.... In this music of the range and trail is “the grayness of the prairies, the mournful minor note of a Texas norther, and a rhythm that fits the gait of the cowboy’s pony.”” —Administration in the State of Texa, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“He turned out to belong to the type of publisher who dreams of becoming a male muse to his author, and our brief conjunction ended abruptly upon his suggesting I replace chess by music and make Luzhin a demented violinist.” —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“We often feel sad in the presence of music without words; and often more than that in the presence of music without music.” —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)