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The firm has organized and works with a network of local craftsmen who produce key parts of the pianos, which they call a "craftsman's co-operative". [4] The firm also has links to Lincoln College, which is the last facility in the UK to teach piano technology, and it has provided employment to graduates of the college. [4]
Challen Pianos: London: UK 1804–1980 Chappell & Co. London: UK 1811–1980 Kemble: Charles Albrecht: Philadelphia / Long Island: US 1789–1887 Schultz & Sons Manufacturing Corp. One of the earliest pianos made in America. The first known piano by Albrecht is located at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. [66] Charles Stieff: Baltimore ...
After apprenticeship as a cabinet-maker in Great Torrington, he went by foot in 1835 to London, where he was a journeyman piano-case maker. [1] He began business as a piano maker in 1836, initially with his elder brother Henry (who left the following year) at 35 Windmill Street, Tottenham Court Road.
Danemann Pianos is a British manufacturer of pianos, originally based in Islington, London. From 1893 to 1980 they produced a wide range of pianos from small to large uprights, 5' 2" grands, 6' 8" grands and 9' 6" concert grands. Their actions were built and supplied by Renner, Schwander and British Piano Actions. Among their customers were ...
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,
Edelweiss Pianos is a British piano company, founded in 1975 in Cambridge, UK, as 1066 Pianos by research physicist and pianist John Roy Norman. [2] History
1784 square fortepiano. Broadwood produced his first square piano in 1771, after the model of Johannes Zumpe, and worked assiduously to develop and refine the instrument, moving the wrest plank of the earlier pianoforte, which had sat to the side of the case as in the clavichord, to the back of the case in 1781, [5] straightening the keys, and replacing the hand stops with pedals. [2]
Chappell & Co. was an English company that published music and manufactured pianos.Founded by pianist Samuel Chappell, the company was one of the leading music publishers and piano manufacturers in Britain until 1980 when Chappell sold its retail activities to concentrate solely on music publishing.