William Steinway’s diary: “Tretbar assumes his position with us”. Charles F. Tretbar, a Braunschweig-born son of Steinway family friends (according to an alternative account, William Steinway has hired Tretbar from the Steinway agent in Canada, Nordheimer & Company), will become one of the key people at Steinway & Sons. Charles F. Tretbar will almost right away become a secretary of Steinway & Sons’ board of trustees, will take charge of preparing the firm’s annual inventories, and with act as a witness to signing of wills and other similar legal matters. On the same year Charles F. Tretbar will become the head of Steinway & Sons’ “Artist Bureau”, later to be renamed “Concert & Artists department”.