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Steinway Piano: New York Upright Model 40 Maple: Serial No. 299937 (Case No. S3239), Sketch No.1052 "Colonial". According to the Steinway & Sons records the piano was completed on December 14, 1939, and delivered on December 20, 1939 as a loan to Jascha Heifetz of Reddington, Connecticut. The date of sale is listed as May 18, 1944.
The piano and the Heifetz family featured on the front page of the "Steinway News" of July-August 1951 where young Jay Heifetz [is shown] playing on his Steinway for an admiring audience of two - Frances and Jascha Heifetz. The newsletter and 2 later photographs accompany the piano, together with material from the Steinway & Sons company and the small wooden chair Jay sat on as a child.
While Heifetz maintained an impressive multi-storey apartment in Manhattan, he realized that he also needed a country getaway where he could be more casual and private, and his Connecticut farm residence provided those features for him. The Steinway piano was his "go-to" instrument, the one he used for creating all of his early transcriptions.
The piano has been in the family ever since: used as a teaching intrument for son, Jay, then at the Heifetz Malibu house, then back to Jay when the beach house was sold.
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