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                        RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION

                                          OF

                          STEINWAY MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, INC.


         The name of the corporation is Steinway Musical Instruments, Inc.  The
date of filing of its original Certificate of Incorporation with the Secretary
of State of Delaware was July 8, 1993, and it was originally incorporated under
the name Selmer Industries, Inc.  This Restated Certificate of Incorporation
restates and integrates and does not further amend the provisions of the
corporation's Certificate of Incorporation as heretofore amended and
supplemented.  This Restated Certificate of Incorporation was duly adopted by
the Board of Directors in accordance with Section 245 of the General Corporation
Law of the State of Delaware.

         FIRST:    The name of the corporation is Steinway Musical Instruments,
Inc. (the "COMPANY").

         SECOND:   The address of the registered office of the Company in the
State of Delaware is The Corporation Trust Company, 1209 Orange Street,
Wilmington, Delaware 19801, County of New Castle.  The name of its registered
agent at such address is the Corporation Trust Company.

         THIRD:    The purpose of the Company is to engage in any lawful act or
activity for which corporations may be organized under the General Corporation
Law of the State of Delaware.

         FOURTH:   The total number of shares of capital stock that the Company
shall have authority to issue is 100,000,000, divided into 5,000,000 shares of
Preferred Stock, par value $0.001 per share ("PREFERRED STOCK"), and 95,000,000
shares of Common Stock, par value $0.001 per share ("COMMON STOCK").  The
Company is authorized to issue two classes of Common Stock, designated
respectively as Class A Common Stock ("CLASS A COMMON STOCK") and Ordinary
Common Stock ("ORDINARY COMMON STOCK").  The total number of shares of Class A
Common Stock that the Company shall have authority to issue is 5,000,000, and
the total number of shares of Ordinary Common Stock that the Company shall have
authority to issue is 90,000,000.

         FIFTH:    The express terms and provisions of the various classes of
capital stock are as follows:

    A.   COMMON STOCK.

         1.   DIVIDENDS AND DISTRIBUTIONS.  Subject to SECTION B of this
    paragraph, the holders of Common Stock shall be


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entitled to the payment of dividends when and as declared by the Board of
Directors out of funds legally available therefor, after payment of such
dividends on the shares of Preferred Stock as set forth in SECTION B below.

         2.   VOTING RIGHTS.

              (a)  NUMBER OF VOTES.  Each holder of shares of Class A Common
         Stock shall be entitled to a number of votes equal to the number of
         shares of Class A Common Stock held by such holder multiplied by 98,
         and each holder of shares of Ordinary Common Stock shall be entitled
         to a number of votes equal to the number of shares of Ordinary Common
         Stock held by such holder.

              (b)  VOTING AS A CLASS.  The Class A Common Stock and the
         Ordinary Common Stock shall vote together, without distinction between
         classes, except as set forth herein.

         3.   AUTOMATIC CONVERSION OF CLASS A COMMON STOCK.  If, at any time,
    any share of Class A Common Stock shall not be owned by either Kyle
    Kirkland or Dana Messina, either directly or through wholly-owned
    subsidiaries, such share of Class A Common Stock shall automatically
    convert to Ordinary Common Stock based on the conversion ratio of one share
    of Class A Common Stock for one share of Ordinary Common Stock.  Any holder
    of Class A Common Stock required to convert the same into Ordinary Common
    Stock under this subsection shall, upon written request from the Company,
    surrender any certificates for shares of Class A Common Stock held by such
    holder.  The Company shall, as soon as practicable thereafter, issue and
    deliver to such holder a certificate or certificates for the number of
    shares of Ordinary Common Stock to which such holder shall be entitled as
    set forth herein.

    B.   PREFERRED STOCK.  Shares of Preferred Stock may be issued from time to
time in one or more series.  The Board of Directors of the Company is hereby
expressly authorized to establish and designate one or more series of the
Preferred Stock from time to time, to fix the number of shares constituting such
series, and to fix the designations, the terms of any sinking fund, rights upon
liquidation, winding up or dissolution and the powers, preferences,
qualifications, limitations, conversion, redemption, special voting, dividend
and other rights of the shares of each such series and the variations of the
relative powers, rights and preferences, qualifications, limitations and
restrictions as between such series, and to increase and to decrease (but not
below the number of shares of such series then outstanding) the number of shares
constituting each such series.  Such determinations may be fixed by a resolution
or resolutions adopted by the Board of Directors.  The Common Stock shall be


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subject to the express terms of any series of the Preferred Stock issued and
outstanding pursuant to this Restated Certificate of Incorporation.  Upon any
liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Company, after payment in full of
all creditors of the Company, and after the holders of any series of Preferred
Stock issued and outstanding at the time shall have been paid in full the
amounts, if any, to which they shall be entitled, the remaining assets of the
Company may be distributed pro rata to the holders of the shares of Common
Stock.

         SIXTH:    A director of the Company shall not be personally liable to
the Company or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary
duty as a director, except for liability (i) for any breach of the director's
duty of loyalty to the Company or its stockholders, (ii) for acts or omissions
not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation
of law, (iii) under Section 174 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, or (iv)
for any transaction from which the director derived any improper personal
benefit.  If the Delaware General Corporation Law is amended after the date of
the filing of this Restated Certificate of Incorporation to authorize corporate
action further eliminating or limiting the personal liability of directors, then
the liability of a director of the Company shall be eliminated or limited to the
fullest extent  permitted by the Delaware General Corporation Law, as so
amended.  No repeal or modification of this paragraph SIXTH shall apply to or
have any effect on the liability or alleged liability of any director of the
Company for or with respect to any acts or omissions of such director occurring
prior to such repeal or modification.

         SEVENTH:  To the fullest extent authorized by law, the Board of
Directors, acting on behalf of the Company, shall indemnify or advance costs of
defense, or commit the Company to indemnify or advance costs of defense in the
future, to any person who is made, or threatened to be made, a party to an
action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative,
investigative or otherwise (including an action, suit or proceeding by or in the
right of the Company) by reason of the fact that the person is or was a
director, officer, employee or agent of the Company or a fiduciary within the
meaning of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 with respect to
any employee benefit plan of the Company, or serves or served at the request of
the Company as a director, officer, partner, trustee, agent or employee, or
fiduciary of an employee benefit plan, of another corporation, partnership,
joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or other enterprise.  This paragraph
shall not be deemed exclusive of any other provision for indemnification of
directors, officers, fiduciaries, employees or agents that may be included in
any statute, bylaw, resolution of stockholders or directors, agreement or
otherwise, either as to action in any official capacity or action in another
capacity while holding office.


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         EIGHTH:   The Board of Directors may amend or repeal the bylaws of the
Company.

                             STEINWAY MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, INC.


                             By:  _____________________________
                                  Dana D. Messina
                                  Chief Executive Officer


                             By:  _____________________________
                                  Dennis Hanson
                                  Secretary


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