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A Charles Stieff piano owned by Georgetown University Stamped nameplate on a Stieff piano. Charles M. Stieff (1805–1862) was a 19th-century American industrialist and piano manufacturer, based in Baltimore, Maryland. Although his company went out of business in 1951, Stieff pianos are still highly regarded.
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
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 ...
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.
His name was applied to pianos built by the Parmelee Piano Co., though he did not appear to have been in charge of the firm. [18] Mathushek Piano Co. was initially listed at 196 Chapel street but by 1869 was listed at 106 Park street, formerly of Parmelee & Sons, and with Spencer T. Parmelee as president and William L. Everitt, treasurer. [19]
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 ...
Winter and Company was an American manufacturer of pianos. Founded in 1901 as Heller & Co. by cabinetmaker Gottlieb Heller (b. 1868 in Stuttgart), the firm was purchased and renamed in June 1901 by Julius Winter (b. 1856 in Hungary). [1] In 1903, the company opened a factory on Southern Boulevard in The Bronx borough of New York City. [1]
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 ...