January 23, 1891

Steinway & Sons trustees order Henry W.T. Steinway to submit his calculations of the cost of piano production to his brother Frederick T. Steinway, the Vice President of Steinway & Sons: “Resolved, that the Vice President Mr. Fred. T. Steinway be hereby empowered and directed to forthwith obtain possession of any and all figures, detailed or otherwise, pertaining to the calculation of the cost of any and all parts of pianofortes manufactured or to be manufactured by this company, from any employee or stockholder, and that two clean and detailed copies be at once made of such figures and calculations, one of which to remain in the New York factory of Steinway & Sons, and the other to be kept in the vault in from of the Steinway Hall building.” (This motion of the trustees will be completely ignored by Henry W.T. Steinway.)