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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.
The Weber Piano Company is a former piano manufacturing company based in New York City and East Rochester, New York from the middle of the 19th century through the beginning of the 20th century, and continued as a division of Aeolian-American at East Rochester, New York until 1985, when Aeolian went out of business.
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,
Monington & Weston pianos are now made in China but finished in the UK. [5] Charles Thomas Watts was a master wood carver and he was invited to become a director of the company on the condition that he only did wood carvings on Monington & Weston pianos. It was he who introduced his son William (who became the owner in 1911) to the company.
The Cable Company, a Chicago piano manufacturing company, purchased the majority interest in Mason & Hamlin in 1904, when the Golden Age of the Piano was in full force. The most illustrious concert artists of the day aligned themselves with piano manufacturers; Sergei Rachmaninoff [8] used a Mason & Hamlin to make his 1924 recording of his Second Piano Concerto.
Also, Beale focused on making pianos with local timbers and sought to make pianos which were suited to the changeable Australian climate. The Beale factory was self-contained and made every element of the pianos, resulting in a broad range of trades working to produce instruments. Activities conducted in the factory included: Brass and iron ...
By 1901, William Straube had sold his interest [7] and signed a 5-year non-compete agreement. [MTR 9] But in 1901, Straube, his two brothers, Herman Charles Straube (1867–1921) and Martin Straube, Jr. (1869–1934), and an associate, Charles Jacobsen (no relation to the Jacobsons of Straube Piano Company), formed another piano manufacturing company and leased the Club Block in Downers Grove.
Ludwig & Co., earlier Ludwig Pianos, was a piano manufacturer located at numbers 968–972 of what was then Southern Boulevard (now Willow Avenue), between 135th and 136th Streets, Port Morris, Bronx, New York City at the turn of the 20th century.