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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,
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 ...
In 1950, [85] Winter & Co. was merged into the Aeolian Company, which sold pianos under the Cable brand until 1958, the Conover brand from 1960 to 1965, and the Conover-Cable brand until 1982. [85] Aeolian went bankrupt in 1984, leaving just four major piano manufacturers in the United States and bringing a final end to the company Herman Cable ...
In the mid-1950s, Wurlitzer began manufacturing portable electric pianos. Rembert Wurlitzer (1904–1963) independently directed the firm's violin department from 1949 until his death in 1963, building it into a leading international center for rare string instruments.
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 ...
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.
In 1950 the Communist-dominated Estonian government consolidated many smaller Estonian piano makers into a factory managed by Hiis, making pianos under the Estonia name for the first time. The instruments became prominent on concert stages throughout Eastern Europe and, amazingly, more than 7,400 concert grands were made.
Piano manufacturing companies of the United States (1 C, 42 P) Pages in category "Piano manufacturing companies" The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total.