Couple gifts $143K Steinway piano to Sandy Springs
A gift to Sandy Springs from The McKenney Family Foundation headed by David and Sarah McKenney has made possible the purchase of a nine-foot, Steinway & Sons Model D concert piano valued at more than $143,000.
The piano is for the Byers Theatre in the new Performing Arts Center at City Springs, officials said. The McKenneys and a City Springs representative traveled to the Steinway factory in Queens in New York in March to select the piano.
Each piano has its own “personality,” and New York pianist Simone Dinnerstein accompanied the group and played five pianos before the final selection was made, officials said. The Model D, they said, is Steinway’s flagship model and “widely regarded as the finest concert piano in the world.”
“The visit to the Steinway factory to participate in the selection of a new concert grand piano was a superb educational experience for us,” David McKenney said. “We are sure that our musical mothers and grandmothers would have been as delighted with the process and with the legacy gift as we are.”
