From 1996 to 2013, Steinway Musical Instruments was traded at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the abbreviation LVB, for Ludwig van Beethoven.

Through acquisitions and mergers, the company has acquired a large number of musical instrument brand names and manufacturing facilities.

Conn French horns, Leblanc clarinets, King trombones, Ludwig drums, and Selmer saxophones and woodwinds.

[4][5] The company sells its products through a worldwide network of dealers to professional, amateur and student musicians, as well as orchestras and educational institutions, under dozens of different brand names.

It holds exclusive distribution rights for Selmer (Paris) wind instruments and Yanagisawa saxophones in the United States.