1916

  • Steinway & Sons business in America recovers: the war has brought prosperity. The gross profit from Steinway & Sons sales in the United States is over $1,100,000.
  • Steinway & Sons has manufactured 6,561 pianos this year, the highest number of pianos in Steinway & Sons’ history.  
  • There’s no contact between Steinway & Sons in New York and Steinway Pianofabrik in Hamburg.
  • Frederick “Fritz” Vietor, the grandson of Albert Steinway, joins the elite Squadron A, New York National Guard cavalry unit, and is deployed to the Mexican border to fight against Pancho Villa’s “División del Norte”.