The Beiijing HsingHai Musical Instruments Corporation LTD. (; also called Beijing Hsinghai Piano Group Limited or Beijing Xinghai Piano Group Limited,

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星海钢琴集团有限公司), is one of the largest musical instrument manufacturers in China. Based in

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, the company was established on June 1, 1949. It produces Western instruments such as

pianos The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...

and

accordion Accordions (from 19th-century German ''Akkordeon'', from ''Akkord''—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed ...

s as well as

traditional Chinese musical instruments Chinese musical instruments are traditionally grouped into eight categories known as (). The eight categories are silk, bamboo, wood, stone, metal, clay, gourd and skin; other instruments considered traditional exist that may not fit these group ...

such as ''

yangqin The trapezoidal yangqin () is a Chinese hammered dulcimer, likely derived from the Iranian santur or the European dulcimer. It used to be written with the characters 洋琴 (lit. "foreign zither"), but over time the first character changed t ...

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'', and '' sheng''. The company has nearly 4,000 employees and is one of China's largest manufacturers of pianos. They make the "Heritage" Collection for the Hallet Davis and Company, Boston (H&D) piano line. The Heritage Collection is the entry-level line for H&D, with the smallest upright pianos, and smallest grand pianos (4'7") for the H&D family. The H&D is the oldest U.S. piano name dating back to 1843 with the same name, and 1835 under the Brown and Hallet name. The H&D piano name pre-dates the second oldest U.S. piano by Weber (1852), and the third oldest by Steinway and Sons (1853). The company's assets in 2008 were 629,000,000

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. Its area is 300,000 square meters, and its floor space is about 170,000 square meters. The company has several locations in Beijing and also maintains a conservatory.

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