[13][10] Bolstered by Hobart Cable's reputation at Chicago Cottage, sales were brisk; by year's end, the company was sending boxcars full of pianos as far as California.

[19][17] The Music Trade Review wrote, "...it is intended by the Hobart M. Cable Co. to extend the capacity of the plant so as to enable them to double that output in less than a year.

[21] Months later, Cable would buy out the Brockmeiers,[22] who would create an eponymous (and short-lived) piano company that operated from 1908 to 1910[23] in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

[24] In November 1903, Cable broke ground on a new piano factory in LaPorte, Indiana ("59 miles from Chicago on the Lake Shore railroad—is a delightful little city of about 12,000 inhabitants"[18]).

(In an editorial, Music Trade Review ascribed the choice of exurban location to labor unrest in Chicago.

[18] "Mr. Cable stated to-day that the contractor has carefully followed all the specifications and that the plant is unquestionably the finest of its kind in the country," the Music Trade Review wrote.

[30] (Later that year, Cable began his fight to prevent a saloon, backed by the Pabst brewery, from starting up near his LaPorte factory.

[37] "I consider the organization of this Club one of the most important business events of my life," Cable Jr. said in an ad carried in the Hammond newspaper.

[39] In 1923, the company, represented by treasurer Edwin V. Schurz, took over LaPorte's bankrupt E. A. Couterier Band Instrument Co., saving it from dissolution.

[41] Hobart's business "rapidly declined" in 1929 and 1930,[42] and Morenus left the company after three decades to found his own eponymous piano-making firm.

[1] After Hobart M. Cable Co. shut down, the brand was transferred to piano makers Story & Clark, a venerable firm founded in 1884.

The pianos were made in Qingdao, China, using Alaskan Sitka spruce soundboards and Japanese hammer felt, according to the company.