Presto

PRESTO TIMES
Established 1884—THE AMERICAN MUSIC TRADE
NUMBER 2272
&To^". 3£? cn .^^^^
JOURNAL—
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CHICAGO, ILL., APRIL-MAY, 1934
50TH
YEAR
ADMIRING A GREAT CREATION
Josef Hofmann, world renoivncd pianist, slwzani here at the keyboard of a piano made almost a century ago,
demonstrates the instrument for the grandson and the (/••cat-grandson of the maker, Henry Engelhard Sicinzvay.
The piano, the first grand mq£c by the draftsman, was finished in 1836. It ivas recently brought to this country
from Europe, zvherc it was discovered. With Mr. Hofmann arc shown Theodore Stcinway and his son, Frederick.
NEWYORK
AST»t,
THE
INSTRUMENT
OF THE
IMMORTALS
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