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They built a full line of upright pianos, player pianos, and grand pianos. It was acquired circa 1910; went out of business in the Great Depression. Beale Piano: Sydney: Australia 1893–1975 Becker Brothers: New York: US 1892–1940 They Also built pianos under the Bennington name, and player pianos under the Mellotone and Playernola name as well.
A player piano is a self-playing piano with a pneumatic or electromechanical mechanism that operates the piano action using perforated paper or metallic rolls. Modern versions use MIDI . The player piano gained popularity as mass-produced home pianos increased in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. [ 1 ]
Steinway & Sons, also known as Steinway (/ ˈ s t aɪ n w eɪ / ⓘ), is a German-American piano company, founded in 1853 in New York City by German piano builder Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg (later known as Henry E. Steinway).
Gulbransen Company was a musical instrument manufacturer of player pianos and home organs in the United States. It also made reed organs. It was originally established in 1904 by Axel Gulbransen as Gulbransen Piano Company. [1] [2] In the history of musical instruments, Gulbransen is notable for several innovations.
In the early 1990s, QRS was selling roughly a quarter-million piano rolls a year. It bought the last remaining manufacturer of player pianos, Classic Player Piano, to provide a source of pianos to play its rolls. [7] In 1992, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers designated the QRS marking piano a National Historical Engineering Landmark.
Klugh, the player-piano expert, became vice-president and a director; [48] he would within two years debut the "Solo-Carona Inner-Player," a player piano whose novel mechanism allowed for more control of dynamics and accent. [61] A 1915 advertisement offered to reimburse train fare to the company's Chicago showroom upon purchase of a piano. [62]
Chickering brand piano pictured in an advertisement in an Indianapolis Maennerchor concert program, March 1912. Jonas Chickering made several major contributions to the development of piano technology, most notably by introducing a one-piece, cast-iron plate to support the greater string tension of larger grand pianos. He also invented a new ...
Sohmer & Co. trademark. Sohmer & Co. was a piano manufacturing company founded in New York City in 1872. Sohmer & Co. marketed the first modern baby grand piano, and also manufactured pianos with aliquot stringing and bridge agraffes, as well as Cecilian "all-inside" player pianos and Welte-Mignon-Licensee reproducing pianos.