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One of the earliest pianos made in America. The first known piano by Albrecht is located at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. [66] Charles Stieff: Baltimore: US 1856–1951 Often referred to as "The poor man's Steinway". Chas. S. Norris: Boston: US 1930 Chickering and Sons: Boston: US 1823–1983 American Piano Company: Acquired in 1908 ...
Chickering brand piano pictured in an advertisement in an Indianapolis Maennerchor concert program, March 1912. Jonas Chickering made several major contributions to the development of piano technology, most notably by introducing a one-piece, cast-iron plate to support the greater string tension of larger grand pianos. He also invented a new ...
[109] [110] The technology in the Spirio pianos was created in 2007 by Wayne Stahnke, an Austrian engineer who has previously made digital player piano systems for other piano companies, like Yamaha and Bösendorfer. [111]
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Kimball International, Inc. is an American company which consists of furniture brands: Kimball, National, Interwoven, Etc., David Edward, D'Style and Kimball Hospitality. . It is the successor to W.W. Kimball and Company, the world's largest piano and organ manufacturer at certain times in the 19th and 20th centuri
Mason & Hamlin is an American manufacturer of handcrafted grand and upright pianos, currently based in Haverhill, Massachusetts.Founded in 1854, it is one of two surviving American piano manufacturers from the "Golden Age" of pianos (the other being Steinway & Sons), although some smaller piano manufacturers have since started in the United States.
It was founded as Q•R•S Music Company in 1900 to make piano rolls, the perforated rolls of paper read by player pianos to reproduce music. The company also produced shellac records in the 1920s and 1930s and radios beginning in the 1920s. Today, it makes modern, digital variations on the player piano and the recordings to drive them. [1]
In 1904, the company began to sell player pianos that used a "Master Player" mechanism of its own design. [ 1 ] Founded in the last decades of the Golden Age of the Piano , when the instrument had no competition from radio, recorded music, and the automobile, Winter & Co. outlived the vast majority of its contemporary pianomakers, and acquired ...