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The Link Piano and Organ Company was an American manufacturer of pianos, orchestrions, fotoplayers, and theatre pipe organs. [1] During the early 1900s, George T. Link was managing a small firm named Shaft Brothers Piano Company, which manufactured and sold pianos to the Automatic Musical Company of Binghamton, New York. When the Automatic ...
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
Other brands which have been manufactured by Wurlitzer are Apollo, De Kalb, Julius Bauer, Farney, Kingston, Kurtzman, Merrium, Schaff Bros. and Underwood. [10] 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.
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 ...
In 1835 or 1836 Lindeman began manufacturing his own pianos, and according to the 1875 article he employed a single journeyman. His initial address was listed at 48 William Street; [2] by 1836 he established a small factory at the corner of Bank and Fourth streets, but reportedly removed to work for piano makers Gerding & Simon on Long Island as a result of the bank crisis of 1837.
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 ...
On December 1, 1945, the Schiller Cable Manufacturing Co. was renamed the Conover-Cable Piano Co. [17] [84] In 1947, it was one of just seven piano manufacturers left in Illinois. [ 73 ] In 1950, [ 85 ] Winter & Co. was merged into the Aeolian Company , which sold pianos under the Cable brand until 1958, the Conover brand from 1960 to 1965, and ...
Theodor August Heintzman (birth name Theodore August Heintzmann) (19 May 1817 – 25 July 1899) was a German-Canadian piano manufacturer (Heintzman & Co.) and inventor, best known for founding the piano company which still bears his name.