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D-274 (or D) is the model name of Steinway & Sons' largest concert grand piano[1] It was first built in its current version in 1884 and in its modern design has a length of 274 cm and a weight of 500 kg.

Super Bowl XLIV on February 7, 2010, featured a music video involving Rihanna, Jay-Z, E.S. Posthumus, and the Rutgers Symphony Orchestra. The D-274 grand piano seen at the beginning of the video was provided by Steinway's Concert & Artist Division, located at Steinway Hall in Manhattan.

At the 2009 Nobel Prize ceremony for U.S. President Barack Obama on December 10, 2009, Steinway artist Lang Lang played Franz Liszt's "Liebesträume" on a D-274.

Barack Obama's inauguration ceremony on January 20, 2009 featured a performance of John Williams' composition "Air and Simple Gifts" by cellist Yo-Yo Ma, violinist Itzhak Perlman, pianist Gabriela Montero and clarinetist Anthony McGill. Gabriela Montero played on a D-274.

On the Ellen DeGeneres Show on November 17, 2008, the then seven-year-old Emily Bear played her own composition Once Upon A Wish, which she had dedicated to the marriage of Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi, on a D-274.

On NBC's "Today" show on October 18, 2007, Lola Astanova played a D-274.[34][35]
In a commercial aired in the fall of 2007, Texas Christian University used its status as an All-Steinway School to promote itself. The commercial featured a D-274.