Steinway Adopts Stockholder Rights Plan

Steinway Musical Instruments, Inc.

, today announced that its Board of Directors has adopted a Stockholder Rights Plan under which stockholders will receive rights to purchase shares of a new series of preferred stock. The rights will be distributed to all stockholders of record of the Company's common stock as of October 7, 2011. The plan was adopted to insure the fair and equal treatment of Steinway's stockholders in connection with any initiative to acquire effective control of the Company. It is intended to reduce the likelihood that any person or group would gain control of Steinway by open market accumulation or otherwise without paying a control premium for all common stock. Because the rights may be redeemed by the Board under certain circumstances, they will not prevent the Board from considering any transaction that is determined by the Board to be fair, advisable and in the best interests of all of Steinway's stockholders.