Robert Kammerer

secretary and director, George Steck and Company first secretary, National Piano Manufacturers' Association convention arrangements chairman

Biography

Robert Kammerer served as secretary and director of George Steck and Company, then a subsidiary of the Aeolian Company, after his election in 1905, and found in that post a rich field for his talents. Described as one of the most popular men in the piano trade, always ready to help and serve, he was elected to almost every office in the various piano-trade associations, organizations, and clubs in which he was active. As the first secretary of the National Piano Manufacturers' Association, organized in 1897, he did splendid work for several years, and his crowning achievement was managing that Association's great convention held eleven years later at the Hotel Astor in New York, where he chaired the committee on arrangements. A lover of athletic sports, he served twelve years as a governor of the New York Athletic Club and six years as a director of the Liederkranz Society of New York. Extensive travel gave him an urbanity that made him a most interesting conversationalist, and an affable, honest personality underlay his business success.

Highlights

First secretary of the National Piano Manufacturers' Association (organized 1897)
Chaired the arrangements committee for the Association's convention held eleven years later at the Hotel Astor
Governor of the New York Athletic Club for twelve years

Source

Alfred Dolge, Pianos and Their Makers, Vol. II (1913), p. 115.

Public domain.

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