The Aeolians of Oakwood University was originally organized in 1946 by the late Dr. Since its inception, the choir has traveled widely, touching the hearts of both young and old with their inspirational singing. AEOLIAN/AEOLIAN - AMERICAN Est. 1903 - New York, N.Y. The manufacturing facilities at East Rochester was comprised of a series of separate and individual factories planned so that manufacturing of the various instruments was carried on in an entirely individual and distinct manner, and by separate organizations, each under direction of men who had been associated with each respective make for.
Spinet built 1765 by Johann Heinrich Silbermann. Bachhaus, Eisenach, Germany. Click for a more detailed view, revealing the use of bookmatched veneering.
A spinet is a smaller type of harpsichord or other keyboard instrument, such as a piano or organ.
- 1Spinets as harpsichords
- 2Spinets as pianos
- 5References
Spinets as harpsichords[edit]
Performed on a spinet by Ulrich Metzner | |
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When the term spinet is used to designate a harpsichord, typically what is meant is the bentside spinet, described in this section. For other uses, see below.
The bentside spinet shares most of its characteristics with the full-size instrument, including action, soundboard, and case construction. What primarily distinguishes the spinet is the angle of its strings: whereas in a full-size harpsichord, the strings are at a 90-degree angle to the keyboard (that is, they are parallel to the player's gaze); and in a virginals they are parallel to the keyboard, in a spinet the strings are at an angle of about 30 degrees to the keyboard, going toward the right.
The case of a bentside spinet is approximately triangular. The side on the right is usually bent concavely (hence the name of the instrument), curving away from the player toward the right rear corner. The longest side is adjacent to and parallel with the bass strings, going from the right rear corner to a location on the player's left. The front side of the spinet contains the keyboard. Typically, there are very short sides at the right rear and on the left, connecting the bentside to the long side and the long side to the front.
![Aeolian Aeolian](/uploads/1/2/3/7/123748517/112817371.jpg)
The other major aspect of spinet design is that the strings are arranged in pairs. The gap between the two strings of a pair is about four millimetres, and the wider gap between pairs is about ten. The jacks (which pluck the strings (see harpsichord)) are arranged in pairs as well, placed in the wider gap. They face in opposite directions, plucking the adjacent string on either side of the wider gap. The fact that half of the gaps are four millimetres instead of ten makes it possible to crowd more strings together into a smaller case.
Diagram showing the arrangement of jacks and strings in a bentside spinet. For explanation, see main text. In the picture above, the jacks are concealed beneath the jack rail at the center of the instrument.
The disadvantage of the paired design is that it generally limits the spinet to a single choir of strings, at eight-foot pitch, although a double-strung spinet by John Player is known [Morris – references below]. In a full-size harpsichord, the registers that guide the jacks can be shifted slightly to one side, permitting the player to control whether or not that particular set of strings is sounded. This is impossible in a spinet, due to the alternating orientation of the jacks. For an exception to this point, see 'spinettone', below.
Spinet by Zenti from 1637, now in the Musical Instrument Museum in Brussels
The angling of the strings also had consequences for tone quality: generally, it was not possible to make the plucking points as close to the nut as in a regular harpsichord. Thus spinets normally had a slightly different tone quality, with fewer higher harmonics. Spinets also had smaller soundboards than regular harpsichords, and normally had a weaker sound. For these reasons, the spinet was normally only a domestic instrument, purchased to save money and conserve domestic space.
![Spinet Spinet](http://www.pianocloseouts.com/images/thumb/baldwin-acrosonic-console-piano.jpg)
History[edit]
Harpsichord historian Frank Hubbard wrote in 1967, 'the earliest [bentside] spinet known to me was made by Hieronymus de Zentis in 1631. It is quite possible that Zentis was the inventor of the type so widely copied in other countries.' He further notes that the spinet in France was sometimes called the épinette à l'italienne, supporting an Italian origin.
In England, builders included John Player, Thomas Barton, Charles Haward, Stephen Keene, Cawton Aston, and Thomas Hitchcock.
The spinet was later developed into the spinettone ('big spinet') by Bartolomeo Cristofori (1655–1731), the inventor of the piano. The spinettone incorporated multiple choirs of strings, with a disposition of 1 × 8′, 1 × 4′, and used the same ingenious mechanism for changing stops that Cristofori had earlier used for his oval spinet. The spinettone was a local success among the musicians of the Medici court (Montanari 2002), and Cristofori eventually built a total of four of them.[1]
Spinets are occasionally made today, sometimes from kits, and serve the same purpose they always have, of saving money and space.
Other uses of 'spinet' for harpsichords[edit]
A sumptuously decorated pentagonal spinet from 1577 by Annibale dei Rossi; 49 keys
The pentagonal spinet was not a spinet in the sense given above, but rather a virginal; its strings were parallel to the keyboard. Typically, the pentagonal spinet was more compact than other types of virginals, as the pentagon shape arose from lopping off the corners of the original rectangular virginal design.
More generally, the word spinet was not always very sharply defined in former times, particularly in its French and Italian cognate forms épinette and spinetta. Thus, for example, when Bartolomeo Cristofori invented a new kind of virginals in 1688, he called it the 'spinetta ovale', 'oval spinet'.
Nomenclature[edit]
Modern bentside spinet built by Clavecins Rouaud, Paris
In earlier times when English spelling was less standardized, 'spinet' was sometimes spelled 'spinnet' or 'spinnit'. 'Spinet' is standard today.
Spinet derives from the Italian spinetta, which in 17th-century Italian was a word used generally for all quilled instruments, especially what in Elizabethan/Jacobean English were called virginals. The specific Italian word for a virginals is spinetta a tabola. Likewise, the French derivation from spinetta, épinette, is specifically what the virginals is called in French, although the word is also used for any other small quilled instrument, whether a small harpsichord or a clavichord. In German, Spinett and Querflügel are used.
A dumb spinet is a manichord or 'clavichord or clarichord', according to the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary.
Spinets as pianos[edit]
Spinet piano made by Baldwin and sold under the brand name Acrosonic. Date of manufacture unknown.
A spinet piano manufactured by Gulbransen
Detail of the interior structure of the Gulbransen spinet shown above. The drop action, lying below the level of the keyboard, can be seen, as well as the extreme angling of the strings needed to provide sufficient length of strings within the limited case height. Click on image for expanded view.
The spinet piano, manufactured from the 1930s until recent times, was the culmination of a trend among manufacturers to make pianos smaller and cheaper. It served the purpose of making pianos available for a low price, for owners who had little space for a piano. Many spinet pianos still exist today, left over from their period of manufacture.
The defining characteristic of the spinet was its drop action (sometimes called indirect blow action). In this device, the keys did not engage the action directly; rather they pulled upward on rods called 'stickers,' which in turn pulled upward on levers located below the level of the keyboard, which in turn engaged the action. The stickers were sufficiently long that the hammer heads (the highest part of the action) ended up at roughly the same vertical level as the keyboard.
Thanks to the drop action, spinet pianos could be made very small; the top of a spinet rose only a few inches above the level of the keyboard itself (see image above). However, according to piano author Larry Fine,[2] the cost in quality was considerable. The stickers were 'often noisy and troublesome.' Moreover, to make room for them, the keys had to be made shorter, resulting in 'very poor leverage' and thus a poor sense of touch and control for the player. Lastly, the very short strings of the spinet resulted in a narrow range of harmonics and thus in poor tone quality.
The spinet was also the bane of piano technicians. Concerning the difficulty of servicing them, Fine writes
Spinets ... are very difficult to service because even the smallest repair requiring removal of the action becomes a major ordeal. Each of the connecting stickers has to be disconnected and tied up to the action and all the keys have to be removed from the piano before the action can be lifted out.[3]
History[edit]
According to piano historian Arthur Loesser (1954), the first spinet piano was offered to the public in May 1935, by an American manufacturer Loesser does not identify. However, according to the Blue Book of Pianos, this manufacturer was Winter and Company (which eventually became part of the Aeolian-American Corporation)[4], who sold this piano as the Winter 'Musette'.[5][6] The Musette, along with its spinet cousins, were initially a success, being the only kind of piano that many people could afford in the depths of the Great Depression. (According to Loesser, the price could be less than $300, 'about twenty-five percent lower than ... a small upright of 1924.') Loesser notes that the spinet was not entirely new, as very small pianos had been manufactured at various times in the 19th century.
After the 1930s, many people still continued to purchase spinets; a 1947 study showed that about 50 percent of all pianos sold during that production year were pianos strung vertically of 37 inches in height or less.[7] The spinet enjoyed decades of popularity after the 1930s, but production was halted in the early 1990s.
Spinets as organs[edit]
The spinet organ, a product of the mid-20th century, served the same function (domestic context, low cost) that was served by spinet harpsichords and spinet pianos. The spinet organ physically resembled a small upright piano, and presented simplified controls and functions that were both less expensive to produce and less intimidating to learn than other organs.
Notes[edit]
- ^Source for this paragraph except as noted: Kottick (2003, 213–214)
- ^Fine, Larry (2001) The Piano Book (4th ed. Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts: Brookside Press, 2001; ISBN1-929145-01-2)
- ^Not all spinets had this design; some utilized a method of making a railing for the rods to terminate sticker connection to the keys. This is commonly found on older Baldwin and Wurlitzer pianos and is easier to service.
- ^'AEOLIAN - AMERICAN CORPORATION - Founded 1932'. The Blue Book of Pianos. Retrieved 26 November 2018.
- ^'Winter'. Antique Piano Shop. Retrieved 2 November 2018.
- ^'Pianos Discontinued after 1980'. The Blue Book of Pianos. Retrieved 7 November 2018.
- ^'Beginning of Modern Styling - Pianos and Prices'. The Blue Book of Pianos. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
References[edit]
Harpsichord spinet[edit]
- Hubbard, Frank (1967), Three Centuries of Harpsichord Making, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, ISBN0-674-88845-6
- Kottick, Edward (2003), A history of the harpsichord, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, ISBN0-253-34166-3
- Montanari, Giuliana (2002), 'The oval spinets and Grind Prince Ferdinando de' Medici's collection of quilled instruments', in Rossi-Rognoni, Gabriele (ed.), La spinetta del 1690 [The 1690 Oval Spinet], Florence: Sillabe for the Galleria dell’Accademia
- Morris, Stephen (1986), The English Bentside Spinet 1660 to 1730, London: London College of Furniture, BTEC HND Dissertation
- The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians offers detailed coverage of the harpsichord spinet; see under Spinet.
Piano spinet[edit]
- Fine, Larry (2001), The Piano Book (4th ed.), Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts: Brookside Press, ISBN1-929145-01-2
- Loesser, Arthur (1991) [1954], Men, Women, and Pianos: A Social History, New York: Dover Publications; originally Simon and Schuster
External links[edit]
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- 'Spinet' . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). 1911.
- 'Spinet' . New International Encyclopedia. 1905.
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This is a partial list of piano manufacturers. Most piano professionals have access to detailed information about these brands using a Piano Atlas to reference serial numbers, which are used to determine a piano's age using the year a piano was built. This information is often used in piano appraisals.
Company | Place | Years active | Acquired by | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
A. B. Chase | Ohio | 1875 | Aeolian-American Corp until Aeolian went out of business. | Since 2001 the A.B Chase name has been used by Wrightwood Enterprises Inc. on pianos made by the Dongbei Piano Co. in China. |
A. M. McPhail[1] | Boston, MA | 1837–c. 1950 | ||
A. Mittag | Berlin | 1800 | ||
Aeolian Company | New York City | 1868–1985 | Merged with Ampico in 1932. Ampico rebranded as Aeolian in 1941. | |
Charles Albrecht | Philadelphia, PA and Long Island, NY | 1789–present | Acquired by Schultz & Sons Manufacturing Corp., New York | Manufactured in Long Island from 1993–present. One of the earliest pianos made in America. The first known piano by Albrecht is located at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.[2] |
Allen Brook | London | |||
American Piano Company | East Rochester, NY, US | 1908–1941 | Aeolian Company | aka. Ampico |
Artmann | Shanghai, China | 1998–present | ||
Astin Weight | Salt Lake City | 1959–1999 | ||
Alexander Herrmann KG | Sangerhausen, Germany | 1803–1993 | ||
Babcock | Boston | 1810 | ||
Baldwin | Cincinnati, OH, US | 1890–2001 | Gibson Guitar Corporation | |
Christian Baumann | Zweibrücken, Germany | 1740–1816 | ||
Baumgardt Piano | Stockholm, Sweden | 1859 | ||
Baus Piano Company | New York City | 1895–1929 | Jacob Doll Piano Company | Factories located at Southern Blvd. and Trinity Ave. They built a full line of upright pianos, player pianos, and grand pianos. It was acquired circa 1910; went out of business in the Great Depression |
Beale Piano | Sydney | 1893–1975 | ||
Becker Brothers | New York | 1892–1940 | They Also built pianos under the Bennington name, and player pianos under the Mellotone and Playernola name as well. | |
Bechstein Pianoforte Fabrik AG | Berlin and Seifhennersdorf, Germany | 1853–present | Was owned by Baldwin in 1963. Also manufactured Zimmermann brand after 1992 | |
Behr Brothers Piano Company | Kohler & Campbell | |||
Belarus[3] | Belarus | 1935–present | Also manufactures brands Sängler & Sohne, Schubert and Wieler | |
Bell | Canada | |||
Bentley Piano Company | ||||
Brinkerhoff | ||||
Beulhoff | ||||
Blüthner | 1853 | |||
Bohemia Piano | ||||
Boisselot & Fils | France | 1831–1908 | The brand became Boisselot Fils & Co. in 1847, after the passing of his father Jean-Louis Boisselot. | |
Borgato | Venice, Italy | 1991–present | ||
Bösendorfer | Vienna, Austria | 1828 | Yamaha | Acquired in 2007 |
Brødrene Hals | Oslo | 1847–1925 | ||
Brinsmead | London | 1835 | ||
Broadwood and Sons | London | 1774–present | ||
Brodmann[4] | Vienna, Austria; Parsons Music Hong Kong, China | 2004- | ||
C. Burlman & Co. | ||||
Cable and Sons | New York | 1852 | ||
Cable, Hobart M. | La Porte, IN, US | 1900–1960s | brand was purchased by American Sejung in the 1990s | |
Cable Company | Chicago | 1880 | ||
Cavendish Pianos | Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire | 2012–present | ||
Challen | London | 1804 | ||
Chappell Pianos | London | 1811 | ||
Charles R. Walter | Elkhart, IN, US | 1975 | ||
Charles Stieff | Baltimore | c. 1852–1951 | often referred to as 'The poor man's Steinway' | |
Chas. S. Norris | Boston | c. 1930 | ||
Chickering and Sons | Boston | 1823–1983 | American Piano Company | Acquired in 1908 |
Collard & Collard | London | |||
Cunningham Piano Company | Philadelphia | 1891 | ||
Currier Piano Co. | Boston and Marion, NC, US | 1823, 1969 | Acquisition details | |
Clementi | ||||
Danemann | London | 1893 | ||
Decker Brothers | New York | 1862 | ||
Eastman | ||||
Edmund | British Columbia | |||
Érard | Paris | 1777 | ||
Estey Piano Corp | 1869 | |||
Estonia Piano Factory | Estonia | 1893–present | ||
EUTERPE | ||||
Fahr Albert | Zeitz, Germany | 1887–1950 | ||
Falcone[5] | Haverhill, MA, US | 1982–1993 | American Sejung Corp. | |
Fandrich & Sons | Stanwood, WA, US | c. 1989–present | ||
Fazioli | Sacile, PN, Italy | 1978–present | ||
Feurich | 1851 | |||
J.C. Fischer | New York | 1840 | ||
August Förster | Löbau, Germany | 1859–present | ||
Francis Connor | New York | 1871 | ||
Fritz Dobbert | São Paulo, Brazil | 1950 | ||
Gabler | New York | 1851 | ||
Gaveau | Paris | 1847 | ||
Generalmusic | Italy and Bensenville, IL, US | |||
Glenz (Josef) | Breslau | |||
Timothy Gilbert | Boston | 1827 | ||
Goetzmann | New York | |||
Grinnell | 1515 Woodward Avenue, Detroit, Michigan | 1902-Present?? by Samick International | Sold under names Lenard, Clayton, Holly, Uxbridge and Playtona | |
Grotrian-Steinweg | Braunschweig, Germany | 1835–present | ||
Gunther[6] | Brussels | 1845–1960 | ||
Haddorf Piano Company | Rockford, Illinois | 1902–1960 | Maker of Steinbach, Clarendon & Dreher | |
Haines Brothers | New York | 1832 | ||
Hallet, Davis & Co | Boston | 1843 (Known as Brown and Hallet from 1835 to 1843) It is the oldest United States Piano Name still in production | Hallet, Davis, & Co. is now owned by North American Music, Inc. and has been in production since the original Hallet, Davis & Company was formed in Boston in 1843 by George H. Davis, Russell Hallet, and other partners. It was originally Brown and Hallet in 1835. Hallet & Davis was reconstituted by Davis with another Hallet (Benjamin Franklin Hallet) in Boston in the 1850s.[7] The W. W. Kimball Company acquired Hallet & Davis in the early 1900s. In 1905, the Conway Company, a holding company, acquired the Hallet & Davis name from Kimball. In 1927, Conway disposed of its piano business.[8] In the mid-twentieth century, the Hallet & Davis name, as well as many other U.S. piano brands, were consolidated under the Aeolian-American Corp., which declared bankruptcy in 1985. | Continuing the Hallet & Davis brand, and appropriate to its Boston association, there was a trademark submission in 1998 for 'HALLET, DAVIS & CO. BOSTON' as was applied for by North American Music, Inc., a piano distributor.[9] The application was 'Refused/Dismissed or Invalidated' by the U.S. Patent and Trade Office (USPTO).[10] The very next year, in 1999, North American Music applied again for a Hallet & Davis trademark, but this time simply as 'HALLET, DAVIS & CO.' (removing 'BOSTON'), which was ultimately granted in 2001 by the USPTO.[11] The Pearl River Piano Group of China (which manufactures HD&C pianos as well as Essex Pianos for Steinway & Sons), puts 'Boston' under the HD&C and thus providing the continuity of Lineage to its roots in Boston, MA. |
Hansmann | ||||
Hardman Peck | New York | 1842 | ||
Heichele, Johann | Ljubljana, Trieste | 1790–1813 | ||
Heintzman & Co. | Toronto | 1866 | ||
Henk Hupkes | Rotterdam, The Netherlands | 2007–present | Build in cooperation with Thüringer Pianoforte, Eisenberg, Germany | |
Herbert | Milwaukee, Wi. USA | |||
Hobart M. Cable | La Porte, Indiana, US | 1900 | American Sejung Corp. | |
Hornung & Møller | Copenhagen, Denmark | 1827–1972 | ||
Hupfield | 1880 | |||
Ibach | 1794 | |||
Irmler | Leipzig and Poland | |||
Søren Jensen | Copenhagen, Denmark | 1893–1921 | ||
J. Erbe Eisenach | Germany | 1881 | ||
J. Strauss & Son | 1925 | |||
Julius Bauer & Co | Chicago | |||
Kawai | Hamamatsu, Japan | 1930–present | Also owns the Shigeru Kawai brand | |
Kemble | 1911 | |||
Kimball | Chicago Il, USA | 1857 | see Kimball International | |
Kirschner | New York | |||
Klavins Piano Manufaktúra Kft. | Vác, Hungary | 2017–present | ||
Knabe | Baltimore | 1837 | American Piano Company | Acquired in 1908 |
Knight, Ltd. | 1935 | |||
Kohler & Campbell | New York | 1896 | ||
Krakauer Bros | New York | 1869 | ||
Kranich & Bach | 1864 | |||
Kurtzmann | ||||
Albert W. Ladd & Company | Boston | 1838 | ||
Lauter Piano Co. | Newark, NJ, US | 1862–1930 | ||
Leipziger Pianofortefabrik | 1835 | |||
Lesage Piano Company[12] | Quebec | Willis & Co. | Acquired in 1907 | |
Lester Piano Company[13] | Lester, PA, US | 1888–1960 | Also manufactured brands Channing, Alden, Bellaire, Schubert and Leonard | |
Lindeman & Sons | New York | 1836 | ||
Ludwig & Company | St. Louis, MO, US | 1895 | ||
M. Schulz Piano Co. | Chicago, Il, US | 1869–1930s | Company manufactured and sold pianos under the names of M. Schulz, Walworth, Bradford, Irving, and Maynard, and Aria Divina. | They were also sold under the names Brinkerhoff(from teens until about 1950s) and Schriver & Sons |
Maene | Ruiselede, Belgium | 1938–present | Founded by Parents Albert Maene-Doutreloigne | |
Mammoth Piano | US | 2010 | ||
Marshall & Wendell | New York City | 1875-1953 | ||
Mason & Hamlin | Boston | 1854–present | Part owned by The Cable Company (from 1904–1924). Acquired by American Piano Company (1924), Aeolian (c. 1929), Aeolian-American (1932), (Various owners from 1940s–1980s), Sohmer & Co. (1985), and Burgett, Inc. (1996) | This brand has changed hands and factories many times in its history. See main article. |
Mason & Risch | Ontario | |||
Mathushek | New York | 1852–1879 | New Haven 1866 | |
Mehlin & Sons | New York | 1853–1960 | ||
Melville Clark company | DeKalb | Purchased by Baldwin in 1919 | ||
Mendelssohn | Canada | |||
Moore and Moore | London | |||
Muir, Wood and Company[14] | Edinburgh, Scotland | 1798–1818 | Wood, Small and Company | Wood, Small and Company was formed at John Muir's Death in 1818 |
Murdoch, McKillop & Co | Edinburgh, Scotland | |||
Joseph Newman | Baltimore | 1829 | ||
Newman & Bros. | Baltimore | 1842 | ||
Nordheimer | Canada | |||
Obermann & Sohn | ||||
Overs | Sydney, Australia | |||
Pape | Paris | 1817 | ||
Stephen Paulello | Villethierry, France | present | ||
Pearl River Piano Group | Guangzhou, China | 1956–present | ||
Perzina | Lenzen, Germany and Yantai, China | 1871–present | ||
Petrof | Hradec Králové, Czech Republic | 1864–present | ||
Petzold | Paris | 1806 | ||
Pfeiffer | Stuttgart, Germany | 1862 | ||
Prate | Canada | |||
Pirsson | New York | 1829 | ||
Pleyel | Paris | 1807 | ||
QRS | 1900 | |||
Quidoz | Quebec | |||
Rainer | Canada | |||
Reed & SonsChicago, Il. USA | 1842 | |||
Rubenstein | 2005–present | |||
Manuel Samaniego[citation needed] | Madrid | c. 1800s–1892 | ||
Samick | Incheon, South Korea | 1958–present | ||
San Francisco Piano Co. | ||||
Sauter[15][16] | 1819–present | |||
Adam Schaaf[17] | Chicago | 1873–1930s | also sold as Clarion and Orpheus | |
Schiedmayer | 1853 | |||
Schiller Piano Company[18] | Oregon, Illinois | 1890–1936 | Cable Company | |
Schimmel | Germany | 1885–present | ||
Scholze | ||||
Schultz & Sons | Brooklyn, NY and Long Island, NY | 1948–present | In Brooklyn 1948–1973. In Long Island 1974–present. Schultz & Sons has an exclusive arrangement with several manufacturers to make pianos that arethen modified and enhanced in the Schultz & Sons factory. Schultz & Sons has applied for patents on its unique innovations in Action, Scale, and Soundboard design. Schultz & Sons alsocontrols the Charles Albrecht name. They produce Grands, Consoles, and Uprights. In addition tothe Schultz & Sons serial number, pianos have the original manufacturers serial number.[2]Pianos with the following second serial numbers were originally made by: Kawai starting with 1955160Sohmer starting with 244540Nakamichi starting with 057493 Kohler & Campbell starting with 798777 [2] | |
Schulze & Pollman | ||||
Schweighofer | 1792–1938 | |||
Sears, Roebuck & Company[19] | Chicago | c. 1900–1930 | Also manufactured/sold brands Beckwith, American Home, Maywood, Beverley, and Caldwell | |
Seiler | 1849 | Samick | ||
Sezemsky | Chicago, United States | 1886–1901 | ||
Sherlock-Manning | Ontario | |||
Sherman Clay | San Francisco | |||
Shomacker | Philadelphia | c. 1840s | ||
Shondorff | New York | |||
Shondorff | New York | |||
Sjuman Instruments | Indonesia | 2015 | ||
F.G. Smith | New York | 1866 | ||
Sohmer & Co. | New York | 1872 | ||
Starr Piano Company | Richmond, Indiana | 1872–1950 | Originally named the Trayser Piano Company, after one of its founders, George Trayser. They also produced a more affordable, yet exceptional quality, piano line, the 'Richmond Piano Company', which was sold alongside theirs in showrooms. Also known for founding Gennett Records. | |
Steck | New York | 1857 | American Sejung Corp. | |
Steinbach & Dreher | Rockford, Illinois | 1902–1960 | Actually made by Haddorff Piano company. | |
G. Steinberg | Berlin, Germany | 1908–present | ||
Steingraeber & Söhne[20] | Bayreuth, Germany | 1852–present | ||
Steinway & Sons | New York and Hamburg, Germany | 1853–present | ||
Sterling Piano Company | Derby, Connecticut | 1866–1967 | Founded in 1845 as The Sterling Organ Company by Charles A. Sterling, the company merged with the Winter Piano Company after the Great Depression. They also produced the cheaper, but reputable, Huntington Piano. | |
Story & Clark | Los Angeles | 1884 | ||
Straube Piano Company | Downers Grove, Illinois (1895–1904) Hammond, Indiana (1904–1940) Chicago Heights (1940–1942) Rockford, Illinois (1942–1949) | 1895–1949 | C.G. Conn (1942) | Manufactured Straube, Hammond, Gilmore, and Woodward; receiver's sale in 1934; bankruptcy in 1937 — remaining assets, including name and patents continued in 1937 in the newly formed Indiana corporation, Straube Pianos Inc. |
Streicher[16] | 1802 | |||
Strich & Zeidler[21][22] | New York City | 1889–1930s | Also manufactured Homer brand | |
Stuart and Sons | Newcastle, Australia | present | ||
Stuyvesant | New York | |||
Suzuki Musical Instrument Corporation | Japan | 1953 | ||
Thürmer | 1834 | |||
Uebel & Lechleiter | Heilbronn, Germany | 1872–1987 | ||
United Piano Makers | New York | c. 1800s | ||
Verdugo e Hijo | Quito, Ecuador | 1995–present | ||
Waldberg | Berlin | c. 1890 | ||
Weber (New York)[12] | New York | 1852 | Young Chang | |
George Weber & son, John | Chicago | 1917 | ||
Weber (Ontario)[12] | Kingston, ON, Canada | 1862 | Lesage Piano Company | |
Whaley-Royce | Toronto | |||
Whelpdale, Maxwell & Codd | 1876 | |||
George Wilkinson | London | 1811 | ||
Wilh. Steinberg | Germany | 1877 | ||
Willis & Company Ltd.[23] | Montreal | 1889–1979 | Acquired Lesage Piano Company in 1907. Also manufactured Newcombe | |
Wolfframm Dresden | Dresden, Germany | 1872–1930s | Started out under brand name Apollo | |
Wornum | London | 1811 | ||
Wood, Small and Company[24] | Edinburgh, Scotland | 1818–1829 | Successive firms were Wood and Company, J. Muir Wood Company, and Small, Bruce and Company | Continued until Andrew Wood's Death in 1829 |
Wornum | London | 1811 | ||
Wurlitzer | Cincinnati, OH, US | 1856–1988 | Baldwin | Also sold under the names Apollo, De Kalb, Julius Bauer, Farney, Kingston, Kurtzman, Merrium. Schaff Bros. and Underwood. |
Yamaha | Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan | 1887–present | Acquired Bösendorfer in 2007. See also List of Yamaha products | |
Young Chang | Seoul, South Korea | 1956 | Hyundai Development Company | Acquired in 2006 |
Zimmermann | Seifhennersdorf, Germany | 1884–2011 | Bechstein Pianoforte Fabrik AG | Acquired in 1992 |
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- ^'Lester Piano Company'. Archived from the original on 2012-06-06.
- ^Palmieri, Robert (2003). The Piano: An Encyclopedia. New York City, NY, USA: Taylor & Francis. p. 243.
- ^'HIstory of Sauter'. Archived from the original on 2006-08-21.
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- ^'Antique Piano Shop, Strich & Zeidler'.
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