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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,
They built a full line of upright pianos, player pianos, and grand pianos. It was acquired circa 1910; went out of business in the Great Depression. Beale Piano: Sydney: Australia 1893–1975 Becker Brothers: New York: US 1892–1940 They Also built pianos under the Bennington name, and player pianos under the Mellotone and Playernola name as well.
PLG150-AP — sampling grand piano, based on Yamaha NEW CFIIIS; PLG150-DR — drum sound, equivalent to drum part of Motif; PLG100-DX — plug-in board version of DX7; PLG150-DX — successor of PLG100-DX, compatible with DX7; PLG150-PC — percussion sound, based on Latin Groove Factory/Q Up Arts; PLG150-PF — PCM piano sound
Made for the mid-level piano market, the Wilhelm Schimmel brand consists of two grand pianos and four upright piano models in different designs. [10] The brand is named after Wilhelm Schimmel, the company's founder. The instruments are made for young piano players, offering them pianos of high quality to an affordable price. [10]
In the 1920s, when many Canadian piano manufacturers were struggling, Heintzman & Co. also took over the Nordheimer Piano Company, and in later years produced pianos under the Nordheimer name. Heintzman & Co. also produced foot-pumped player pianos although a number of electric pianos have been found to use the Welte reproducing system as well ...
One Blüthner piano owned by the Abbey Road Studios in London was used on some tracks of The Beatles' Let It Be (1970) album, most notably, in the hits "Let It Be" and "The Long and Winding Road". Blüthners were also used in the films Gaslight (1944) and The Sting (1973), [ 19 ] and one was played by Hannibal Lecter in the movie Hannibal .
Cavendish Classic model piano Emmanuel Vass plays Chopin Nocturne on Cavendish Contemporary model piano Cavendish source their skills and materials from the Yorkshire area. [ 3 ] The firm has organized and works with a network of local craftsmen who produce key parts of the pianos, which they call a "craftsman's co-operative". [ 4 ]
Some have compared the Lyon & Healy grand pianos to other high end brands of the time such as Steinway & Sons, Wm. Knabe & Co., and Sohmer. Lower cost pianos were sold by Lyon & Healy under various other brand names. Like most other Golden Age piano companies, they stopped making pianos during the Great Depression.