Publications about Sohmer
name: label: Names
content: Pratt, Read and Company
label: Names
content: Sohmer, Hugo
label: Collection Author
content: Falcone Custom Grand Pianos
label: Collection Donor
content: Pratt, Read and Company
label: Collection Creator
content: Sohmer & Company
place: label: Place
content: New York
setName: label: See more items in
content: Sohmer & Co. Records
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1883-1986
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0349, Series 11
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Clippings
label: Type
content: Reprints
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Clippings
label: Genre/Form
content: Reprints
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Publications About Sohmer, dating from 1883 1986, include trade paper reprints, newspaper clippings, and copies of magazine articles.  They provide contemporary and historical accounts of the company and the family.  While the stenographic account from the 1894 Musical Courier about the Sohmer v. Sommer case is colorful and informative, testimony regarding advertising costs and costs of building and selling a piano is also revealing.  While Sohmer & Co. never entered into the competition for artistic endorsements, Hugo testified that he had spent $500,000 in advertising costs between 1872 and 1894.  This declaration mirrors the importance which Sohmer & Co. attached to advertising. 

Publications of the 1980's relate to the sale of the Sohmer Piano Company to the Pratt Read Company, and to Pratt Read.