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This article is a list of piano brand names from all over the world. This list also includes names of old instruments which are no longer in production. Many of these piano brand names are "stencil pianos", which means that the company which owns the brand name is simply applying the name to a piano manufactured for them by another company,
Jesse French Piano & Organ Company: Tennessee and Indiana: US 1885 - 1902 Jesse French first built pianos from 1875 - 1885 for the Dorman, French & Smith company. In 1902 firm became Krell-French when Albert Krell joined. In 1905, Krell left and the firm was renamed "Jesse French & Sons." In 1955, The P. A. Stark Piano Company bought the firm ...
Brook Mays was founded by its namesake investor, Brook Mays, who saw the opportunity to open a piano dealership in Dallas, and opened the chain's original store in August 1901. At the time, it dealt exclusively in pianos, and became the largest such dealership in its region.
Before Austin was trumpeting itself as the Live Music Capital of America, it hosted a number of important music scenes, many of which only later had relevance out of town. In the early '70s, during the heyday of what was then called 'progressive country', the place you bought the records of the artists you heard in the clubs was Inner Sanctum ...
By 1915, Starr had retail stores in major cities such Detroit, Michigan; Chicago, Illinois; and San Diego and Los Angeles, California while Jesse French chain stores carried Starr pianos in their South and Southwest stores. [1] The company had a showroom inside the Nashville Jesse French Piano Building at 240-242 Fifth Street North. [6]
In 1872 he began a sheet music business in Nashville, and in 1875 he became a partner in the Nashville piano retail firm of Dorman, French & Smith. [1] [4] In 1885 he founded the Jesse French Piano and Organ Company, a piano manufacturing company, in Nashville. [1] His sons Horace Edgar French and Jesse French Jr. joined the business.
Samick, a South Korean manufacturer of musical instruments, trademarked the name in 1997 [87] and used it in some markets for pianos sold elsewhere under the Samick brand. [88] By 2010, pianos bearing the name Conover Cable were available only by special order. [89] In 2012, Samick stopped selling pianos under the name. [90]
Chopin's last piano made by the Pleyel company (no 14810) displayed in the Fryderyk Chopin Museum in Warsaw; Chopin played and composed on this instrument in 1848–49. Pleyel et Cie. ("Pleyel and Company") is a French piano manufacturing firm founded by the composer Ignace Pleyel in 1807. [2] In 1815, Pleyel's son Camille joined him as a ...