For the first time in America, Steinweg family attends a concert: the debut of Jenny Lind, “the Swedish Nightingale”, in New York’s Castle Garden. Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg, upon seeing a Chickering & Sons grand piano, custom-built for Jenny Lind’s pianist and husband-to-be Otto Goldshmidt, runs to the stage and subjects the piano to “such careful examination that he nearly had to be hauled away so the concert could begin.”