At the factory, two experienced workers, David Gonzalez and Joseph Guarascio, began taking the Cole Porter piano apart with help from their boss, Bill Youse. As they took the lid off and reached inside, one was tempted to steal a line from another Cole Porter hit. Eventually, they will cut that out, leaving the familiar curved rim and the legs, the skeleton of the Cole Porter Steinway, No. The Cole Porter piano, finished in 1907 and sold in 1908, was the 129,281st. Mr. McBrien described the room the piano was in as “cathedral-like.” It must have been, not just because No.

Source: New York Times December 16, 2018 15:11 UTC