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]