Steinway

Biography

Steinway appears in the author's concluding remarks as the advocate of the overstrung scale system, whose position is credited with provoking Chickering's years-long opposition to that same system. The anecdote is offered alongside the mention of Pleyel and Broadwood's alliance against Erard as evidence of the personal rivalries that shaped the piano industry's leading firms. No further biographical detail is given in this passage.

Highlights

• Described as an advocate of the overstrung scale system.
• His advocacy is said to have caused Chickering's long-standing opposition to the system.

Source

Alfred Dolge, Pianos and Their Makers, Vol. I (1911).

Public domain.