 Artur Schnabel complained once that "Steinway refused to let me use their pianos [i.e., Steinway pianos owned by Steinway] unless I would give up playing the Bechstein piano – which I had used for so many years – in Europe.They insisted that I play on Steinway exclusively, everywhere in the world, otherwise they would not give me their pianos in the United States.That is the reason why from 1923 until 1930 I did not return to America.