Morning journal and courier., 1889-03-21
A NOTED MUSICAL HOUSE.
one of the Largest and Most Ceft brated In the United States-Une1 ampIed Prosperity.


 brated In She United States-Unex-
 ampIed Prosperity.
 The following is taken from the New York Musical Courier of March 13:
 The ffty-seventh birthday of M. Steiuert, the head of the house of NJ. Steinert & Sons,
 was celebrated last Saturday at his home in New Haven, and it is therefore appropriate to congratulate him and his firm on the ex- traordinary success attained by Steinert, ST., and his sons in their various establishments. When the ,Steinerts, after a successful career with their New Haven, Bridgeport and Providence houses, opened in Boston, it was predicted that so extensive an establish ment could not succeed in the face of the opposition, and the enormous prestige of the Chickering's in the retail piano trade in Bos- ton. Fremont street was at that time not a piano avenue at it now is. There were, out- side of the Mason 6 Hamlin warerooms and the Chickering warerooms, only a few scat tered piano stores on that street, and Mason & Hamlin pianos were unknown-the ware- room of that company being an organ ware room. A few years later the exodus from Wash- ington street to Fremont street began, and in that section of Washington street, where retail piano rooms occupied the ground floors, none are now to be seen. Neither was it long before the Steinerts occupied the whole lower floor of the Hotel Boylston building, and thus made it one of the most complete piano warerooms in the United States. It cannot be denied that the stimu- lus to the retail piano trade as conducted -oYv o1, Tram afraaf dua fo fha aY. traordinary energy and backbone of the Steinerts, who, undismsyed by unpleasant forecasts and ignoring the intrenched power of the Chickering's. established 8 retail piano trade in Boston that has since developed into sn amazing success. The crowning act of the Boston branch was the
 building of Steinert Hall, 8 genuine music hall, and not merely piano wareroom trans- formed into temporary recital room and called 8 hall. This Boston branch was from it's beginning, and is to-day, managed by AL exander Steinert and his brother Frederick. After the success of the Boston branch was established, M. Steinert 6 Sons sought new fields for conquest and series of predictions were made about this new enterprise. It was sure to fail; there was no room in Cincinnati for another piano house; competition was too great. etc. And yet within few years only M. Stelnert & Sons not only established remunerative business in Cincinnati, but actually devel- oped into one of the largest retail piano con- cerns of the West, and were forced to lease 8 whole building, in which they have also opened a Steinert music hall. The Cincinnati branch is conducted by Henry Steinert and his brother William. In the face of these pronounced successes it must be acknowl- edged on all sides that M. Steinert & Sons are business men and fnanciers of more than ordinary ability and that their conspicuous position in the music trade entities them to rank among the leading and influential con- cerns in the piano industry of the country. Men like these Steinerts force a re- cognition of their ability even from the fercest and most bitter competitors, and that they have infused en- ergy and activity into the piano trade of every section where they have located, should not only be admitted, but should be consid- cred an excellent thing for the piano trade thus affected There is also a system and principle at the bottom of all this success. They carry, as far possible, the same lines of pianos in each store or branch. The Stein way, Gab!er and the Peass pianos are their representative pianos, and they sell in the aggregate an enormous number of these in- struments.