Steinway & Sons’ pianos, based on Frederick Matushek’s sweep-scale system, win the First Prize of the Metropolitan Mechanics Institute Exhibition, “for best two- and three-stringed pianos”, at Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. It’s the first time the company exhibits its pianos in the United States, and it wins – even though, at that time, Washington, D.C. isn’t a very important place, and the exhibitions held there are not very prestigious.