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About Sherman Clay Piano Houston

San Francisco’s Barbary Coast was at its zenith-wide open, bawdy, brawling, brimming with uncivilized humanity. Painted dance hall girls flounced their way to fame and fortune as a rough-and-tumble assortment of miners, sailors and railroaders chugged the rawest whiskey in the West. All that remained of the Gold Rush was the savagery born of disillusionment.

The first piano handled by Sherman Clay was the Weber, made in New York. Later they imported the Mansfeldt & Notni from Germany, bringing the instruments around the Cape of Good Hope in sailing ships. In 1892 Sherman Clay acquired the agency for Steinway pianos. Every Steinway artist visiting San Francisco brought with him a letter to Sherman Clay & Co.

Mr. Sherman entertained most of the major artists who visited the city: Adelina Patti, Lillian Nordica, Moritz Rosenthal, Leopold Godowski, Edward MacDowell, Lillian Russell, Paderewski and others, many of whom gave performances under the sponsorship of Sherman clay in its own concert hall. “My good friend Leander Sherman,” wrote Paderewski, “always makes San Francisco a most delightful place to visit.”