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Steinway Musical Instruments, Inc. is a worldwide musical instrument manufacturing and marketing conglomerate, based in Astoria, New York, the United States.It was formed in a 1995 merger between the Selmer Industries and Steinway Musical Properties, the parent company of Steinway & Sons piano manufacturers.
Alcoa Aluminium Piano. A piano with an aluminum piano plate, called the Alumatone plate, was announced in 1945 by Winter and Company, piano manufacturers, and Alcoa, a manufacturer of aluminum and aluminum products. [1] The metal frame of a piano, often called the plate or harp, anchors both ends of the strings, withstanding a tension of 20 ...
Estey Piano Company: New York: US 1846–1961 Euterpe Piano: New York: US 1820–1930 F. G. Smith: New York: US 1866 Falcone [67] Haverhill, MA US 1982–1993 America Sejung Corp. Francis Connor: New York: US 1871–1933 G. Rösler: Česká Lípa: Bohemia 1878–1948 Petrof: Acquired in 1993. G. Schwechten: Berlin: Germany 1854–1902
Sohmer and Company Piano Factory is a historic piano factory located in the Astoria neighborhood of Queens, New York City. It was built in 1886 by Sohmer & Co., and is a six-story, L-shaped, Rundbogenstil / Romanesque Revival style brick building. The corner features a clock tower with a copper trimmed mansard roof. The building was expanded ...
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 .
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. [1] [4]
Decker Brothers was an American piano manufacturer that operated from 1865 until about 1900. It was founded by brothers David and John Decker, holders of many piano patents. Its headquarters were located in New York City, in the John H. Edelmann-designed [1] Decker Building, which is today on the National Register of Historic Places. [2]
There he was awarded several patents for innovative piano mechanisms such as the grasshopper action. Marrying an English woman, they had twins John Jr. and Adam ca.1780, George ca 1782, and William ca. 1793. In 1797 he elected to resettle again, to New York. There he established Geib & Company as an organ maker from 1800 to 1802