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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. Purchased by Baldwin in 1919. Wood, Small and Company was formed at John Muir's Death in 1818.
Headquarters. Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire, UK. Products. Pianos. Website. www .cavendishpianos .com. Cavendish Pianos is a brand of pianos made at Yorkshire Pianos, the only company producing pianos still wholly built in the United Kingdom. [1] [2] [3] [4]
John Broadwood (1732–1812), a Scottish joiner and cabinetmaker, came to London in 1761 and began to work for the Swiss harpsichord manufacturer Burkat Shudi. [ 2] He married Shudi's daughter eight years later and became a partner in the firm in 1770. As the popularity of the harpsichord declined, the firm concentrated increasingly on the ...
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,
PolyGram (1970–84) Investor group (1984–87) Chappell & Co. was an English company that published music and manufactured pianos. Founded by pianist Samuel Chappell, the company was one of the leading music publishers and piano manufacturers in Britain until 1980 when Chappell sold its retail activities to concentrate solely on music publishing.
Paulson & Co. Inc. [ 10 ] Website. www .steinway .com. Steinway & Sons, also known as Steinway ( / ˈstaɪnweɪ / ⓘ ), is a German-American piano company, founded in 1853 in New York City by German piano builder Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg (later known as Henry E. Steinway). [ 2 ][ 11 ] The company's growth led to a move to a larger factory ...
The Knight Company. Alfred Knight, Ltd. was a piano manufacturing company founded by Alfred E. Knight in 1936 in England. [1] Knight was a highly respected manufacturer, and were the only make of piano in Steinway Hall alongside Steinway's own pianos. [2] With the exception of a few baby grand pianos, nearly all Knight pianos are modern upright ...
Monington & Weston pianos are now made in China but finished in the UK. [5] Charles Thomas Watts was a master wood carver and he was invited to become a director of the company on the condition that he only did wood carvings on Monington & Weston pianos. It was he who introduced his son William (who became the owner in 1911) to the company.