Upon the closing of the Vienna Exposition, its organizers issue the statement, signed by all fourteen of the musical instrument jurors of the Vienna Exposition: “We regret that the celebrated inaugurators of the new system in piano-making, Messrs. Steinway & Sons, of New York, to whom the entire art of Piano-making is so greatly indebted, have not exhibited”. Steinway & Sons includes t he text of the statement into its advertisements, published in newspapers in numerous cities of the United States (including Boston, where Colonel Frank Chickering fumes over what he recognizes as Steinway & Sons’ stratagem).