Steinway was an honorary pallbearer at Mr.Healy’s funeral in 1905 and Henry Z. This would become an important relationship for the company for many years – in fact, Charles H. While re-building they also acquired the piano business of another firm and became the sole representative in the Chicago territory of Steinway & Sons pianos. Lyon & Healy survived the Great Fire of 1871 merely because they had purchased enough insurance to rebuild themselves (they had suffered another devastating fire just the year before).
It did not take long for Lyon & Healy to expand into instrument selling and manufacturing. Only six days after opening the store, they ran their first advertisement in the Chicago Tribune, alongside an account of General Sherman’s dramatic march to sea. Ditson had warned the two young men that, with extreme luck, they might hope to do a business of $100,000 a year in ten years – the partners exceeded that in less than 12 months.
On October 14, 1864, the partners opened their doors in a little shop with a stock of music at the corner of Washington and Clark Streets. I pretty much nailed the date for 188018, but missed the other one by 5 months (probably a math error).Lyon and Healy had been dispatched by Boston music publisher Oliver Ditson to start a sheet music shop as an outlet for his publications. Martinola wrote:George beat me to the punch. And a fun time was had by all.įYI: here's a link for the latest data sheet. Next divide number of machines (16045) by the monthly production number (5708) and you'll get months elapsed (2.8). Next take your serial number 188018 and subtract the first known serial number (188018-171973= 16045) and this will give you the machines produced from the first known date. (12) divide machines produced by number of months (68503 divided by 12= 5708) and that will give you your monthly production. Subtract the serial numbers between the two to get the total number machines produced (68503). (Example: New style case introduced in November 1901.)įind a serial number before your target that has a date. It takes about 10 minutes or so because you'll have to scan the notes for known dates (courtesy George P.)or you'll have to look for feature changes that go with known dates. Tom - if you would like to try your hand at guesstimating, it can be done using the Standard Data sheet. I pretty much nailed the date for 188018, but missed the other one by 5 months (probably a math error).