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Kimball International, Inc. is an American company which consists of furniture brands: Kimball, National, Interwoven, Etc., David Edward, D'Style and Kimball Hospitality. It is the successor to W.W. Kimball and Company , the world's largest piano and organ manufacturer at certain times in the 19th and 20th centuries.
The Cable Company (earlier, Wolfinger Organ Company, Chicago Cottage Organ Company; sometimes called by the name of its subsidiary, The Cable Piano Company) was an American manufacturer and distributor of pianos and reed organs that operated independently from 1880 to 1936.
Organ Historical Society Pipe Organ Database for nearly complete list, current and historical. Pipe Organ Database; Abbott and Sieker, Los Angeles, California [124] Aeolian Company, Garwood, New Jersey [125] (organ production 1887-1932, after which it merged with the Skinner Organ Company)
César Franck: 5th part taken from "L'organiste", played on a Debain pump organ (1878) A hand-pumped Indian harmonium , of the type used in South Asia, here used at a European jazz festival. The pump organ or reed organ is a type of organ using free-reeds that generates sound as air flows past the free-reeds, the vibrating pieces of thin metal ...
The Estey Organ Company was an organ manufacturer based in Brattleboro, Vermont, founded in 1852 by Jacob Estey.At its peak, the company was one of the world's largest organ manufacturers, employed about 700 people, and sold its high-quality items as far away as Africa, Great Britain, Australia, and New Zealand.
Mar. 4—A pump organ more than a century old is looking for a new home, with proceeds from the sale going to one of Tahlequah's most historic homes. Board members for the Thompson Home said they ...
In 1877, Kimball decided to manufacture his own pianos to keep down the cost of the final product. In 1881, he opened his own factory and began churning out around 100 pianos and organs every week. Kimball Avenue (3400W) is named after him. [dubious – discuss] Kimball died at his home in Chicago on December 16, 1904. [5]
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