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Ayars, Contributions to the Art of Music in America by the Music Industries of Boston (1937) — the Squier, Farley, Rettberg, Rockwell and Elias Howe matter, 1937
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1were the Jewett, Woodbury, Curtis and Berkshire. In all 60,000 were made of which 45,000 were Jewetts, and more of these pianofortes than of any other make have been sold in New England.27 Players have been put only in the Jewett uprights. No reproducing pianofortes have been made by this company. The Steinert pianoforte was originally called Hume after one of the company's salesmen. But in 1916 when only between 300 and 400 of them had been sold the name was changed to Steinert and it became a widely concertized pianoforte, which achieved a world-wide distribution.
3In 1932 the company ceased manufacture but retained exclusive distribution of Jewett and Curtis pianofortes made to their own specifications.
5The company is now one of the largest pianoforte houses in the world, with exclusive agencies for Steinway, Hardman, Krakauer, Mathushek, Jewett, Weber, Harrington, Steck, Stroud, Wheelock, Cable, Lindeman, Schubert, Brambach, Knabe, and Curtis pianofortes; the Estey and Aeolian organs; and the Hammond Electronic Organ.
7Steinert stores, serving the greater part of New England, are located in Boston, Worcester and Springfield, Massachusetts, and Providence, Rhode Island. The extent of the company's business is shown by the fact that it makes regular shipments almost monthly to every continent.
9Steinert Hall at [address hidden], which many consider the most perfect concert hall in Boston acoustically, was opened for general concert use on December 16, 1896, with a concert by the Kneisel Quartet. This organization gave most of its Boston recitals there. This hall has been the scene of some famous debuts, notably Harold Bauer's about 1900, Fritz Kreisler's upon his return to the United States as a young man, and Paderewski's first Boston recital. De Pachmann and other famous concert artists have played here to crowded houses.
11Up to 1920 when the radio began to take business away from concert halls the company operated New England's leading concert management bureau, with concert series in all large cities under direction of the brothers Rudolph and Albert Steinert.
13Morris Steinert was one of the founders of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra and his home was a musical centre. He
1527 Statement of Jerome F. Murphy, Jr. of M. Steinert & Sons Company, Inc.
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