| TEACHER'S GUIDE | |
| Introduction | |
| Lessons Overview | |
| The Great Migration | |
| Kleindeutschland-Little Germany | |
| Letters from America | |
| The Age of Improvement & Piano Production | |
| The United States in 1860 & A House Divided | |
| The Life Story of Piano 2166 & Family Stories | |
| Steinway Success | |
| Sales Agent Training Course | |
| Steinway Workers | |
| Steinway Village | |
| Educational Resources | |
| NYC History-General | |
| Immigration | |
| Population & Kleindeutschland-Little Germany | |
| The Age of Improvement & Piano Production | |
| Piano 2166 | |
| Steinway Workers, Steinway Village & Queens | |
| Schedule a Tour | |
| Ó 2001 La Guardia and Wagner Archives Web Designer: Kate Zou | |
LESSON: THE LIFE STORY OF PIANO 2166 & FAMILY STORIES
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| Piano 2166 at the LaGuardia and Wagner Archives. |
These two lessons use documents, artifacts and oral history to trace the path of piano 2166 over time and place, from New York to Kentucky, and then back to New York, where it is now part of the Steinway & Sons collection at the La Guardia and Wagner Archives. Students will be challenged to read the handwriting in the section of the Steinway "number book" that records the construction and sale of piano 2166. They are guided to the 1860 map to locate the piano’s destination, Kentucky, and to place that state in historical context, as described in "A House Divided."
| A Tale of Two States in 1860 | ||
| New York | Kentucky | |
| Population | 3,880,000 | 1,156,000 |
| Capitol | Albany | Frankfort |
| Commercial Center | New York | Louisville |
| Population | 837,000 | 68,000 |
| Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, and Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy, were both born in Kentucky. | ||