- Steinway & Sons builds 1,623 pianos.
- Steinway & Sons employs 400 workers.
- C.F. Theodor Steinweg persuades virtuoso pianist Hans von Bulow to play a Steinway & Sons grand piano publicly at a concert of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde. Hans von Bulow plays one of the instruments that C.F. Theodor Steinweg has built according to the blueprints he received from New York in 1862. After the concert, C.F. Theodor Steinweg offers von Bulow to arrange more performances. Von Bulow, however, will never play another recital on a Steinway & Sons piano.