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The Baldwin Company became the largest piano dealer in the Midwestern United States by the 1890s. [4] In 1889 or 1890, Baldwin vowed to build "the best piano that could be built" and subsequently formed two production companies: Hamilton Organ, which built reed organs, and the Baldwin Piano Company, which made pianos. The company's first piano ...
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
The spinet piano, manufactured from the 1930s until recent times, was the culmination of a trend among manufacturers to make pianos smaller and cheaper. It served the purpose of making pianos available for a low price, for owners who had little space for a piano. Many spinet pianos still exist today, left over from their period of manufacture.
This division started as a piano dealership in Chicago in 1857 as W.W. Kimball and Company by William Wallace Kimball (1828–1904). In 1864, Kimball moved from its earliest location in the corner of a jewelry store to sales rooms in the Crosby Opera House where Kimball sold pianos made by East Coast piano makers Chickering and Sons and others.
Dwight Hamilton Baldwin (September 15, 1821 – August 23, 1899) was a piano manufacturer in the United States, famous as the eponym and introducer of the Baldwin Piano. Born in Erie County, Pennsylvania , Baldwin began his career as a teacher of the reed organ and violin .
During the 1960s, while working as a development engineer, [5] Warner, with Eric Herz, designed harpsichords for the Cannon Guild, [6] founded by James H. Cannon, Jr. [7] [8] One of the harpsichords co-designed and built by Warner was the Baldwin Spinet Electric harpsichord [9] [10] which was used on The Beatles' song Because, [6] and for the ...
The 28-year-old model, who is the daughter of Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger, shared a revealing mirror selfie, wearing nothing but a bra and underwear, via Instagram on Wednesday, February 21.
Wm. Knabe & Co. was a piano manufacturing company in Baltimore, Maryland, from the middle of the nineteenth century through the beginning of the 20th century, and continued as a division of Aeolian-American at East Rochester, New York, until 1982. The name is currently used for a line of pianos manufactured by Samick Musical Instruments.