![]() Steinway presented Lyon & Healy with a painting for its Centennial in 1964. ![]() 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. Lyon and Healy had been dispatched by Boston music publisher Oliver Ditson to start a sheet music shop as an outlet for his publications.
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