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North American introduced a full line of Hardman Peck upright and grand pianos made by Beiijing HsingHai Musical Instruments Corporation, one of the world's largest piano manufacturers. Beiijing Musical Instruments Corporation at around the same time entered into a long term joint venture manufacturing agreement with Kawai Piano Japan ...
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 ...
She made her television acting debut in 1970, performing as Dolly Martin in the NBC drama The Bold Ones: The New Doctors, the "If I Can't Sing, I'll Listen" episode. In 1973 on the ABC daytime soap opera One Life to Live , she performed a wedding song at the nuptials of her "onscreen cousin" Carla Gray Hall, portrayed by Ellen Holly .
The Hobart M. Cable Co. is a defunct American piano manufacturer that operated from 1900 until the 1960s, mostly in La Porte, Indiana. From the mid-1960s until 1993, the brand name was used by Story & Clark, an even older pianomaker.
Marcus Joseph Ruslander [1] [2] [3] (August 23, 1932 – March 30, 2023), better known as Mark Russell, was an American political satirist and comedian. He is best known for his series of bimonthly comedy specials on PBS television between 1975 and 2004.
The first pneumatic piano player that was practical was the Pianola, invented in 1896 by Edwin S. Votey of Detroit, MI, who received a patent on May 22, 1900. The patent was for an attachment of practical and economical construction that could be applied to and removed from any piano. It was introduced by Aeolian Company. Rosen, Gary A. (2020).
A Charles Stieff piano owned by Georgetown University Stamped nameplate on a Stieff piano. Charles M. Stieff (1805–1862) was a 19th-century American industrialist and piano manufacturer, based in Baltimore, Maryland. Although his company went out of business in 1951, Stieff pianos are still highly regarded.
Donald Gould (aka "The Homeless Piano Man") is an American musician, composer and U.S military veteran. After spending many years on the streets, Gould was discovered in Sarasota, Florida when playing a piano rendition of " Come Sail Away " by American rock band Styx on an outdoor piano.