Sherman Clay

A. Rosenberg music store and was located in San Francisco at the corner of Kearny and Sutter Streets.

Leander Schutzenbach Sherman (1847–1926), who had been working as a clerk for Rosenberg, bought out his employer in 1870 and took on Major Clement C. Clay (1836–1905) as a partner in 1879.

It had 28 stores in spring of 1965, all located in the three states of California, Oregon and Washington.

[8] The company soon began to expand beyond the West Coast, and by the mid-1970s it had "become a national chain, with stores from Manhattan to Kansas City and Seattle to Los Angeles.

[citation needed] In 2013, Sherman Clay announced it was exiting the retail business in California, its longtime home base, on May 31, 2013, after 142 years.

[10] Of the four remaining California locations at that time, the stores in San Francisco and Walnut Creek were sold to Steinway and Sons, to remain in operation as piano dealerships, while those in Roseville and San Bruno were to be closed.