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Brinkerhoff Piano Company: Chicago: US 1906–1950 Brinsmead: London: UK 1835–1921 Brødrene Hals: Oslo: Norway 1847–1925 Bush & Gerts: Chicago: US 1884–1942 Bought by Haddorff Piano co. in 1942. Cable and Sons: New York: US 1852–1936 Cable Piano Company: Chicago: US 1880–1937 Merged with Schiller Piano Company to become The Schiller ...
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.
The company also participated in the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. [4] As of 1895, this company is referred to as "the largest establishment of the kind in the world". [2] In 1940, the Charles Parker Company acquired the Bradley & Hubbard Manufacturing Company. [5] The Charles Parker Company was in operation until the 1970s.
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 ...
The walls of the building collapsed, and set adjoining structures on fire. A new factory was built in 1853–54 at 791 Tremont Street in Boston. From 1860 to 1868 space in the building was the location of the Spencer Repeating Rifle Company, who made over 100,000 rifles and carbines for the U.S. Army and sportsmen from 1862 to 1868. [1]
In 1874 Mathushek was associated with David H. Dunham of Dunham & Sons, with whom he patented improvements in iron frames and wrestplank bridges, [34] and in 1877 the Mendelssohn Piano Company advertised their latest trichord squares used "Mathushek's new Duplex Overstrung Scale, the greatest improvement in the history of Piano making," and ...
January 5 – Max Bruch's Violin Concerto no. 1 in G minor is first performed in its revised version by Joseph Joachim in Bremen with Karl Martin Rheinthaler conducting. February 3 – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 1 ("Winter Daydreams") is first performed in Moscow at a Russian Musical Society concert (having been premièred in Saint ...
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.