William Steinway’s response to the most recent “Music and Drama” report is printed in the same publication: “As one of the results of the strike in the piano trade in February and March 1880, Messrs. Steinway, in the summer of 1880, established a branch factory in Hamburg, Germany. […] To be perfectly independent as concerns the export trade, at least, of the oftrecurring long strikes in the United States, and for the purpose of properly preparing the Steinway Piano for the extreme humidity of the European climates… All the Grand and Upright pianos produced in the Steinway factory at Hamburg are first made and brought to a certain state in the New York and Astoria factories […] shipped to the Hamburg factory and there finished, mostly under the personal supervision of Mr. C.F. Theodore Steinway of New York, the inventor of all the late important features which distinguish the Steinway Piano. The instruments produced in the American and Hamburg factories are thus precisely alike, of the same scale and make, and fully warranted. […] A few of them have been imported into Canada by A. & S. Nordheimer of Toronto, and have given the same perfect satisfaction that all Steinway pianos give.”