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On December 1, 1945, the Schiller Cable Manufacturing Co. was renamed the Conover-Cable Piano Co. [17] [84] In 1947, it was one of just seven piano manufacturers left in Illinois. [ 73 ] In 1950, [ 85 ] Winter & Co. was merged into the Aeolian Company , which sold pianos under the Cable brand until 1958, the Conover brand from 1960 to 1965, and ...
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 company was renamed the Weber-Wheelock Company [4] and public stock was issued the following year. [33] Photograph of William E. Wheelock (1852–1926), piano businessman and founder of Wheelock & Company. Wheelock began manufacturing pianos in 1873, and founded William E. Wheelock & Company in 1877, with operations in New York City. [43]
This division started as a piano dealership in Chicago in 1857 as W.W. Kimball and Company by William Wallace Kimball (1828–1904). In 1864, Kimball moved from its earliest location in the corner of a jewelry store to sales rooms in the Crosby Opera House where Kimball sold pianos made by East Coast piano makers Chickering and Sons and others.
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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.
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