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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,
Company Place Country Years active Acquired by Notes Atlas [1] [2]: Hamamatsu→Liaoning: Japan→China 1943–1986 2004–present. Atlas Piano and Instrument Manufacturing (Dalian) Co. Ltd is a musical instrument manufacturing company that Japan atlas piano manufacturing Co., Ltd. whole moved to China and invested and registered in Dalian Free Trade Zone.
This is the way the music ends. An unwanted piano sits in the driveway of Nate Otto's Anoka home, awaiting its fate. It was headed to the landfill, but ended up with Otto, a player piano restorer ...
The pedalier piano, or pedal piano, is a rare type of piano that includes a pedalboard so players can use their feet to play bass register notes, as on an organ. There are two types of pedal piano. On one, the pedal board is an integral part of the instrument, using the same strings and mechanism as the manual keyboard.
The extra keys, at the bass end of the keyboard, were originally hidden beneath a hinged panel mounted between the piano's conventional low A and the left-hand end-cheek to prevent their being struck accidentally during normal play; more recent models have omitted this device and simply have the upper surface of the extra natural keys finished ...
Most View-Master reels, even old ones, are very affordable today — even the more "valuable" three-reel sets generally sell in the $10 to $50 range — but some of them are far pricier.
A grand piano lies upside down after a Beverly Crest home was pushed off its foundation by a mudslide on Feb. 5. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)
Nineteenth-century piano innovation was, moreover, financed by a far more robust piano market than exists today. A few of the "innovations" discussed below were actually present in at least some pianos in the distant past. They are innovations to the extent that the old idea had become unfamiliar to most of the piano community through long disuse.