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Simpson & Son Piano Co. Albuquerque, NM US 1940–1990 Simpson & Son was the only piano manufacturer west of the Mississippi during that time. They specialized in custom spinet upright pianos. Sohmer & Co. New York: US 1872–1996 Søren Jensen: Copenhagen: Denmark 1893–1921 sponagle Starr Piano Company: Richmond, IN US 1872–1950
Wurlitzer excelled in piano design. It developed the "Pentagonal Soundboard", "Tone crafted hammers", and other unique innovations to help its pianos produce a richer, fuller tone. In 1935, it was one of the first manufacturers to offer the spinet piano to the mass market. This 39-inch high piano was an instant sensation.
As of 1868, Charles Parker Company and related initiatives were described as comprising "four large manufactories, located at different places in Meriden and its vicinity, and some of them comprise so many departments for the manufacture of distinct articles that they might be regarded as several distinct establishments."
Georges Bizet – Variations chromatiques de concert for piano; Ignaz Brüll – Piano Concerto No. 2 in C, op. 24; Johannes Brahms. Ein deutsches Requiem, op. 45; 5 Lieder, op. 49; Anton Bruckner - Symphony No. 1; Camille Saint-Saëns – Piano Concerto No. 2; Johann Strauss II – Tales from the Vienna Woods; Peter Tchaikovsky. Songs Without ...
Alfred Dolge (December 22, 1848 – January 5, 1922) was a German-born industrialist, inventor, and author.. Originally an importer and manufacturer of piano materials he later founded his own factory, manufacturing felt products at Brockett's Bridge, Fulton County, New York, which in 1887 was renamed to Dolgeville.
Plays written or first performed in the year 1868. Pages in category "1868 plays" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. ...
Among these were Chicago-based The Cable Company in 1943, once the country's largest maker of reed organs; the Ivers and Pond Piano Company of Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1945; Kranich and Bach in 1946; [2] and Hardman Peck in 1953. [3] Mason & Risch of Ontario, Canada, was another. [4] Its longtime president was William G. Heller, a son of ...
Behr Brothers was a New York based piano company founded in 1880 and hailed as a major contributor to the piano industry of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Henry Behr of Hamburg , Germany initially established a piano company in New York alongside Leopold Peck (of "Hardman Peck Piano Company") in 1877, named "Behr & Peck ...