- The Minutes of the Board of Directors of Steinway & Sons register the fact that even top Steinway Artists (such as Artur Rubinstein) now have to pay for repairs done by Steinway & Sons technicians to the pianos they own.
- The same document also indicates that Steinway & Sons management has discovered that Yamaha “pirated three of our young voice-tuners, whom we trained from apprentices” (as reported by Henry Z. Steinway to the Board of Directors). Steinway & Sons will protest at the Hamburg’s Chamber of Commerce, and the arbitration that follows will conclude with the agreement that “there will be no pirating either way”.