EE Forbes Piano

According to his grandsons, the elder E. E. Forbes used to say, Musical instruments are made to be sold, not played. Considering that Forbes himself never learned to play the pianos and organs that made E. E. Forbes and Sons Piano Company an institution in Birmingham, Alabama, his philosophy might have smacked of commercialism. But Ernest Erastus Forbes never fit the image of a hardnosed entrepreneur, and he contributed far more to Alabama musicians than the instruments he sold.