- Organ manufacturer Votey, pianomakers Weber, Steck, Wheelock and Styvesant, and phonograph-making company Vocalion form a music instrument manufacturing syndicate “Aeolian Company”. Their key product is E.S. Votey’s automatic piano mechanism Pianola, invented a few years earlier and endorsed by Ignacy Jan Paderewski since 1901. Six years later “Aeolian Company” will contribute a great deal to Steinway & Sons’s success (see the corresponding 1909 entry).
- The “Alma Tadema Piano” is auctioned for $8,000, and moved to the Marin Beck Theater in Manhattan.