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2. Square piano - Wikipedia

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   Over time, square pianos were built in larger sizes with more keys and a wider range; by the 1830s, square grand pianos predominated, with changes to their internal mechanisms and construction that produced larger sounds and used higher string tensions. Square pianos were the most popular keyboard instrument of the late 18th century, and the ...

3. Johannes Zumpe - Wikipedia

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   Johannes (Johann Christoph) Zumpe (pronounced zumpy; 14 June 1726 in Fürth, Free Imperial City of Nuremberg, modern Germany – buried 5 December 1790 in London, UK) was a leading maker of early English square pianos, a form of rectangular piano with a compass of about five octaves.

4. Jean-Henri Pape - Wikipedia

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   Jean-Henri Pape, born as Johann Heinrich Pape and also known as Henry Pape [1] (1 July 1789 – 2 February 1875), was a French piano and harp maker in the early 19th century. Pape was born in Sarstedt , Germany , in 1789.

5. Chickering & Sons - Wikipedia

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   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 deflection of the strings, and in 1845 the first convenient method for over stringing in square pianos.

6. John Broadwood & Sons - Wikipedia

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   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]

7. Frederick Mathushek - Wikipedia

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   Frederick Mathushek. Frederick Mathushek (June 9, 1814 – November 9, 1891) was a piano maker who worked in Worms, Germany, and in New York City and New Haven, Connecticut, during the second half of the nineteenth century.

8. Weber Piano Company - Wikipedia

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   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.

9. Category:Piano - Wikipedia

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