Steingraber

(shtin’-grap-ér), The odor, Neustadt-on-the-Orla, Jan. 25, 1830 —Leipzig, April 5, 1904; founder of Hanover mus.-pub. firm; from 1890 in Leipzig; wrote a pf.-method under the pseud. **Gustav Damm.” Stein’way & Sons, firm of pf.-makers, New York and Hamburg; founded by (:) H. Engelhard (shtin’-vakh), Wolfshagen, Harz, 1797—New York, 1871; journeyman ~ org.-builder, Seesen, ca. 1820; he worked at night on his first piano, which combined the good points of Old English and recent German instrs.; it made immediate succ.; after the Revolution of 1848, he emigrated to New York in 1850 with four sons, (2) Chas., Seesen, 1829— 1865. (3) H., Seesen, 1829—New York, 1865. (4) Wm.,, Seesen, 1836 —New York, 1806; (5) Albert, Seesen, 1840—New York, 1877; leaving the busine in charge of (6) The odor (Seesen, 1825—Brunswick, 1889). Father and sons worked in different factories till 1853, when they combined as Stein way & Sons. In 1865 The odor, who had moved to Brunswick, sold the busine to the firm Grotrian, Helferich & Schulz, The odor Steinwegs Nachfolger (i. e. “succe ors”’) (v. STEINWEG), and became a partner in the N. Y. firm, now the largest of its kind in the world.