The company made its name producing the Pianola, a pneumatic player piano developed in 1897 by Edwin Votey, 1983 suffering […]

August Forster currently produce six models of upright piano from 4 feet, 6 inches (116cm) high to 4feet, 9 inches […]

To increase the volume and the fullness of tone they designed an upright piano in which the soundboard could be […]

Throughout the 1960’s and 1970’s, the Baldwin Piano Company acquired 42 companies, including those involved in finance and electronics, becoming […]

Like all piano makers, Bechstein was affected by the Great Depression of the 1930s. In addition to this, the introduction  […]

Although the first Bentley pianos appeared in showrooms in 1930, the man behind this popular English make, Douglas Grover, was […]

Bluthner was reprivatized in 1989, and its pianos, cherished by music lovers everywhere, are still manufactured in Leipzig under the […]

Until the mid-1920s, Bosendorfer made only a few hundred pianos a year; this production fell rapidly during the Great Depression […]

The Boston Piano Company was formed in 1991 in a collaboration between Steinway & Sons and Kawai, with the aim […]

With extensive restructuring, and changing production between grand, upright, and player pianos to suit the changing times, Broadwood and Sons […]

Since 1986, Challen pianos have been assembled in western Malaysia by Musical Products Sdn. Bhd, the factory division of  Vienna […]

The Phillips Record Company bought the Chappell Company in 1968 for £17.5 million (US$25.5). Owned by Warner Chappell Kemble produced […]

Erard made his first square pianos in Paris, France, in 1777. Erard history after 1914 is one of decline. Not […]

In 1883 that a musical instrument retailer, John Church Company, started producing small quantities of uprights and grand pianos under […]

Owned by PianoDisc. The company was set up in 1984 by an Italian-born piano technician, Santi Falcone, whose aim was […]

Fazioli pianos are still handmade and a successful move to a purpose-built factory in the summer of 2001 saw production […]

In July 1991 the Bechstein Group bought a majority shareholding in the Euterpe Piano Company. Feurich remained autonomous  and, finding […]

Founded in Paris in 1847 by Joseph Gabriel Gaveau, this French firm was to gain an excellent reputation for high-quality […]

Grotrian’s business interests took him to Moscow, where he established a successful retail concern. When he returned over a decade […]

Ibach characterize their sound as being firm and transparent in the bass section, rich and warm in the tenor, and […]

 Irmler had achieved a good profitable export business, particularly to North America, and they also had a steady home market. […]

In 1980 a 300,000-square-foot factory was built, capable of producing sixty grand pianos a day. In 1989 the company presidency […]

           In the early 1980s Kemble came within the whisker of closing, but at the last […]

          In 1959 the Jasper Corporation, a manufacturer of office furniture, bought the company and later changed its name to […]

          Despite the takeover and the formation of the Knabe Brothers Company, Knabe continued to sell […]

 The Knight iron frame offers twice the strength of those in an average piano. It is a full-perimeter frame built […]

   Ronisch prospered between the wars, but the company’s Dresden factory was destroyed in bombing raids in 1945, and production […]

      In 1985, after the demise of Aeolian, Mason & Hamlin was acquired by the Sohmer Company, which […]

     New factories were built, first in 1970 to increase production of upright pianos, and then in 1989 a second plant […]

   In 1934 Pleyel acquired the firm of  Antoine Bord. In 1961, facing financial difficulties, the firm merged with the […]

Founded in 1958 by chairman Hyo Ick Lee, the company swung into full production of upright pianos under the brand […]

The company’s reputation was firmly established by the time Carl Sauter III took charge in the 1960s. But he was […]

A reputable clavichord maker, Balthasar Scheidmayer is reported to have made his first grand piano in 1735 at Erlangen in […]

Nikolaus Wilhelm Schimmel’s succession to the company’s leadership in 1961 saw the traditions of this fine German house pass on […]

    The company is still owned by members of the Seiler family, Ursula and Manuela, who are dedicated to preserving […]

               The Steinway family sold the firm to C.B.S. in 1972. In 1985 it […]

Heinrich Hermann, Burkhard’s son-in-law, became head of the firm in 1920 and his nephew Heinrich Schmidt took the reins in […]

All Stuart pianos are custom-made by Piano Australia Pty Ltd, who also manage the sales and the service. With each […]

                    In 1987, to celebrate its centennial, Nippon Gakki change its name to the Yamaha Corporation. Today it is the […]