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Baldwin Piano Company: Purchased by Baldwin in 1919. Mendelssohn: Toronto: Canada 1870–1960 Monington & Weston: London: UK 1858–1975 Moore and Moore: London: UK 1900–1920 Muir, Wood and Company [74] Edinburgh: Scotland 1798–1818 Wood, Small and Company: Wood, Small and Company was formed at John Muir's Death in 1818. Murdoch, McKillop ...
The Baldwin Company became the largest piano dealer in the Midwestern United States by the 1890s. [4] In 1889 or 1890, Baldwin vowed to build "the best piano that could be built" and subsequently formed two production companies: Hamilton Organ, which built reed organs, and the Baldwin Piano Company, which made pianos. The company's first piano ...
This article is a list of piano brand names from all over the world. This list also includes names of old instruments which are no longer in production. Many of these piano brand names are "stencil pianos", which means that the company which owns the brand name is simply applying the name to a piano manufactured for them by another company,
The company became in 1908 part of the American Piano Company (Ampico), [3] and continued after the merger in 1932 of American with the Aeolian Company, to form Aeolian-American. That company went out of business in 1985, and the Chickering name continued to be applied to new pianos produced by Wurlitzer and then the Baldwin Piano Company.
Medallion Records was a record label (1919 – late 1921 or early 1922) [1] owned by the Baldwin Piano Corporation of Cincinnati, Ohio. Most Medallion issues were pressed from masters leased from Emerson Records , whose catalogue included early jazz recordings by the Louisiana Five and Eubie Blake .
Wurlitzer's jukebox operations were sold and moved to Germany in 1973. The Wurlitzer piano and organ brands and U.S. manufacturing facilities were acquired by the Baldwin Piano Company in 1988, and most piano manufacturing moved overseas. The Baldwin Co., including its Wurlitzer assets, was acquired by the Gibson Guitar Corporation in about ...
Dwight Hamilton Baldwin (September 15, 1821 – August 23, 1899) was a piano manufacturer in the United States, famous as the eponym and introducer of the Baldwin Piano. Born in Erie County, Pennsylvania , Baldwin began his career as a teacher of the reed organ and violin .
Parsons manufactures pianos for its own brands (Yangtze River and Schönbrunn), [2] grand pianos for Baldwin [5] and manufactures a few Kawai models for sale only in Parsons Music's stores in China. [6] [2] Parsons is the majority shareholder of the German piano manufacturers Wilh. Steinberg since 2013 [7] [8] and Grotrian-Steinweg since 2015 ...