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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.
Pearl River Piano Group in China uses the brand name "Ritmüller" for their pianos. W. W. Kimball and Company: Chicago: US 1857–1996 Kimball International: Weber Piano Company [70] [84] New York: US 1852–1985 Young Chang: Young Chang acquired the Weber name in 1985. [6] Weber (Ontario) [70] Kingston, ON Canada 1865–1961 Lesage 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,
By 1901, William Straube had sold his interest [7] and signed a 5-year non-compete agreement. [MTR 9] But in 1901, Straube, his two brothers, Herman Charles Straube (1867–1921) and Martin Straube, Jr. (1869–1934), and an associate, Charles Jacobsen (no relation to the Jacobsons of Straube Piano Company), formed another piano manufacturing company and leased the Club Block in Downers Grove.
Kimball was born in Rumford, Maine on March 22, 1828. [1] He moved to Decorah, Iowa, in his mid-twenties and became a real estate broker. He liquidated his investments just before the Panic of 1857 and moved to Chicago. [2] In 1857 he also founded the Kimball Piano Company, beginning with only four pianos. He sold these at a profit and ...
Valentin Wilhelm Ludwig Knabe [1] was born in Creuzburg, Saxe-Weimar, on June 3, 1803.The French campaigns in Germany in 1813 prevented him from studying to become an apothecary like his father, and instead he apprenticed with a cabinet maker, after which he worked two years as a journeyman cabinet maker, then for three years for a piano maker in Gotha, before working as a journeyman piano ...