Note By Note: The Making Of Steinway L1037

It takes a year to build, it stretches 9 feet long, and it can be yours for the tidy sum of $100,000 and change. It’s the Steinway Concert Grand — specifically, the D model — the choice of concert pianists the world over. To call it the "Rolls Royce of grand pianos" would probably come as an insult to the men and women whose proud hard work — much of it done by hand — goes into each instrument they make. This unexpectedly charming documentary from filmmaker Ben Niles follows the construction of one such piano — factory number L1037 — from the bending and molding of the raw maple that will become the piano rim in workshops of the Steinway & Sons factory in Queens,...