• Steinway & Sons in New York builds and sells 5,601 pianos (of which number 3,406 are upright pianos, and 2,195 are grands). This is the highest number since 1926, and also Steinway & Sons’ all-time highest number of upright pianos.

• Steinway & Sons’ net profit is $142,612 (the company is making profit again, for the first time since the beginning of the Great Depression!)

• Two outsiders join Steinway & Sons Board of Directors: Jerome F. Murphy, president of M. Steinert & Sons, Steinway & Sons dealer in Boston, and Dudley P. Felt, from Robert Heller Associates.

– Squadron A of State National Guard where Theodore D. “Teed” Steinway serves as a volunteer cavalryman, is “federalized” (absorbed by the United States military), and dispersed. Teed is assigned to the 121st Signal Radio Intelligence Company, at Fort Meade, MD.