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piano
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 ...
brand
A brand is a name, term, design, symbol or any other feature that distinguishes one seller's good or service from those of other sellers. Brands are used in business, marketing, and advertising for recognition and, importantly, to create an ...
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, and that the same or very similar pianos are sold under differing "stencil" brands. This often applies to old brand names, revitalized to give an air of heritage to a new piano line, or to pianos manufactured specifically for individual dealers or shops. Also, some brand names have models that are manufactured in entirely different manufacturing plants or countries than another model of the same brand.
At July 2020 this list had 1174 entries.
A
* Aarhus Pianofabrik
* A.B. Chase
* Ackerman & Lowe
* Ackerman, F.J.
* Acoustgrand
* Acrosonic
* Adam, F.
* Adam, G.
* Adam, M.
* Adams
*
Aeolian
* Aerts
* Ajello
* Albert
* Albert & Co.
* Albion
* Albrecht
* Alden
* Aldrich
* Alexander
* Alex Steinbach
* Alfred Rohr, Leipzig
* Allgäuer
* Allison
* Allmendiger
* Alois Kern
* Altenburg, Frederick
* Altenburg, Otto
* American Pianos
* American Music
* Amherst
* Ammer
* Amphion
*
American Piano Company (Ampico)
* Amyl
* Anderson
* Anderson Bros.
* Anderson Co.
* Anderson Sons
* Andersson, A.
* Andreas
* André
* Andreys
* Anelli
* Angerhöfer
* Apollo
* Arcade
* Archer
* Arion Pianofabrik
* Arirang
* Armstrong
* Army & Navy
* Arnold
* Artfield
* Artmann
* Asahi
* Ashenback
* Askolin
* Aspelin, O. W.
* Astin-Weight
* Astor
* Atlas
* Auburn
* Aucher
*
August Förster
* Auto Piano Co.
B
![Boardman Gray and Co piano at Glen Eyrie castle](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/84/Boardman_Gray_and_Co_piano_at_Glen_Eyrie_castle.jpg)
*
Babcock, Alpheus
* Babcock, Lewis & Alpheus
* Babcock, Appleton & Babcock
* Bach
* Bachman
* Bacon, Francis
* Baer, C.
* Bailey
* Baldorr & Sons
* Baldur
*
Baldwin
* Baltica
* Bannerman
* Barber London
* Barker & Co
* Barnes
* Barrat & Robinson
* Barthol
* Bartlett
* Bauer
* Bauer, J.
* Baumbach
* Baumeister
* Baumgardt
* Baus
* Bay
*
Beale
Beale is an English surname. At the time of the British Census of 1881, its relative frequency was highest in Dorset (6.3 times the British average), followed by Huntingdonshire, Hampshire, Sussex, Oxfordshire, Wiltshire, Warwickshire, Kent and ...
* Bechner
*
Bechstein, C.
* Bechtel
* Becker
* Becker, J.
* Becker Bros.
* Behning & Klix
* Behning & Sons
*
Behr Brothers Piano Company
* Bekker
*
Belarus
Belarus,, , ; alternatively and formerly known as Byelorussia (from Russian ). officially the Republic of Belarus,; rus, Республика Беларусь, Respublika Belarus. is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by R ...
* Belehredek
* Bell Piano & Organ Co.
* Bellak & Sons
* Bellman
* Bellmont
* Benjamin
* Benedict Brothers
* Benkert
* Bennington
* Bensted and sons, H.G.
* Bentley
* Berden
* Berdux
* Beregszaszy
* Berger
* Bergmann
* Bernhard Steiner
* Bernstein Wolf
* Berry
* Betting
* Beulhoff
* Biber
* Beyer-Rahnefeld
* Biddle
* Bieger
* Biese, W.
* Billberg
* Birke, Willy
* Birnbaum
* Bishop
* Bjur Bros.
* Blasius
* Blenheim
* Blondel, A.
* Blondel, G.
*
Blüthner
Julius Blüthner Pianofortefabrik GmbH, is a piano-manufacturing company in Leipzig, Germany.
* Boardman, Gray & Co.
* Bocage
* Bock & Hinrichsen
* Bogart
*
Bogs & Voigt
* Bohemia
*
Boisselot & Fils
Boisselot & Fils was a French piano manufacturing company established in 1831 in Marseille, France, by Jean-Louis Boisselot
Jean-Baptiste-Louis Boisselot (18 August 1782 – 21 May 1847) was the founder of the piano company Boisselot & Fils. Com ...
* Böhme & Sohn
* Börs, Otto
* Bord, A.
*
Borgato, Luigi
*
Bösendorfer
Bösendorfer (L. Bösendorfer Klavierfabrik GmbH) is an Austrian piano manufacturer and, since 2008, a wholly owned subsidiary of Yamaha Corporation. Bösendorfer is unusual in that it produces 97- and 92-key models in addition to instrument ...
*
Boston
Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th- mo ...
* Boston Piano Co.
* Boyd
* Brackett & Robinson
* Brackett, J. W.
* Bradbury
* Bradbury, Wm. B.
* Bradford
* Brambach
* Brandtner, H. Rudolf
* Branston
* Brasil
* Brasted
* Breitkopf & Härtel
* Bremitz
* Brentwood
* Bretschneider, Alexander
* Breyer
* Briem
* Briggs
* Brinkerhoff
* Brinkmann
*
Brinsmead, John
* Bristol
* Broadway
*
Broadwood and Sons
John Broadwood & Sons is an English piano manufacturer, founded in 1728 by Burkat Shudi and continued after his death in 1773 by John Broadwood.
Early history
John Broadwood (1732–1812), a Scottish joiner and cabinetmaker, came to London ...
* Broadwood White
* Brodmann
* Brooks
* Brother
* Brown & Allen
* Browning
* Bruckner
* Brunger
* Brunner
* Brødrene Hals Christiania
* Bulow
* Burg van den
* Burgasser
* Burgdorfer
* Burger & Jacobi AG
* Burgmuller
* Burling Mansfield
* Bush & Lane
* Bush & Gerts
* Butler Bros.
* Byelloruss
C
* C. Baer
*
Cable, Hobart M.
* Cable Nelson
*
Cable Piano Company
The Cable Company (earlier, Wolfinger Organ Company, Chicago Cottage Organ Company; sometimes called by the name of its subsidiary, The Cable Piano Company) was an American manufacturer and distributor of pianos and reed organs that operated in ...
* Cäcilia
* Cahn & Cahn
* Calisia
* Cameo
* Cameron
* Camillo
* Cappelen
* Carl. Kierston
* Carlton
* Candice
* Carod
* Cauwenberghe
* Chaika
* Challen
* Casio
* Challenger
*
Chappell & Co.
* Charles Stieff
* Chase, A.B.
* Chassaigne
* Chavanne
* Cherny
* Chickering, Jacob
*
Chickering, Jonas
* Chickering & Mackays
*
Chickering and Sons
Chickering & Sons was an American piano manufacturer located in Boston, Massachusetts. The company was founded in 1823 by Jonas Chickering and James Stewart, but the partnership dissolved four years later. By 1830 Jonas Chickering became partners ...
* Chickering Bros.
*
Chicago Cottage
* Christensen
* Christman
* Chu-Seng
* Clark Melville
* Classenti
* Classic
* Clement
* Clementi
* Christofori
* Chollard
* Chollard & Chollard
* Cline
* Cockuijt
*
Collard & Collard
* Colby
* Colonial
* Cotto
* Conn
*
Conover Conover may refer to:
People
* Conover (surname)
Places in the United States
* Conover, Iowa, a ghost town
* Conover, North Carolina, a city
* Conover, Ohio, an unincorporated community
* Conover, Wisconsin, a town
* Conover (community), Wisconsi ...
*
Conover Cable
* Consolat de Mar
* Continental
* Conway
* Cornish
*
Cramer Cramer may refer to:
Businesses
* Cramer brothers, 18th century publishers
* Cramer Systems, a software company
* Cramer & Co., a former musical-related business in London
Other uses
* Cramer (surname), including a list of people and fictional ...
* Crane & Sons, Ltd.
* Cristofori
* Crown
* Cuijpers, J.F.
* Cunningham Piano Company
*
Currier & Gilbert
* Currier & Co.
* Currier Piano Co.
* Czapka & Sohn
D
* Daesung
* Daewoo
* Dale Forty
* Dalibor
* David à paris
* D'almaine
*
Danemann
Danemann Pianos is a British manufacturer of pianos, originally based in Islington, London. From 1893 to 1980 they produced a wide range of pianos from small to large uprights, 5' 2" grands, 6' 8" grands and 9' 6" concert grands. Their actions ...
*
Danemann, W
* Daniël
* Davenport & Treacy
* Debain et Cie
* De Blaise
* Delmar
* Dassel
*
Decker Brothers
Decker Brothers was an American piano manufacturer located in the John H. Edelmann designed Decker Building in New York, New York, on the national register of historic places. The company began to produce pianos in 1865, created by David Decker ...
* Dengler
* D'este
* Diapason
* Dietmann
* Diederichs Freres
*
Disklavier
Disklavier is a brand of reproducing pianos manufactured by Yamaha Corporation. The first Disklavier was introduced in the United States in 1987.
The typical Disklavier is a real acoustic piano outfitted with electronic sensors for recording and ...
* Dittrich
* Dobbert
* Does, van der
* Döhnert
* Doina
* Donath, Max
* Dörner
* Dörneberg
*
Carl Dörr
Carl Dörr was a piano manufacturer in Wieden, Vienna, Austria.
History
It was founded by Daniel Dörr (1788–1837) in 1817 in Vienna. His son Wilhelm Dörr I took the business over afterwards. Carl Dörr (1856–1934) succeeded as head of the ...
* Doss, Robert
* Dominion Piano and Organ Co.
* Dochtermann piano
* Doutreligne Piano
* Drachman
* Dreinhöfer, Wilhelm
* Dreyer & Co.
* Driggs, Parmelee & Co.
* Driggs Patent Piano Co.
* Driggs & Tooker
* Duck-Son & Pinker
* Dulcette
* Dunham, John B.
* Dunham, John B. & Co.
* Dunham & Sons
* Duysen
* D.W. Karn
* Dresden
E
* Eastman
* Eavestaff
* Ebel & Sohn
* Ebel, Carl
*
Ecke, Carl
* Eckstein
*
Ed. Westermayer
* Egtved
*
Friedrich Ehrbar
* Eisenberg
* Ekström
* Elcké
* Elias
* Ellington
* Elysian
* Emerson
* Emmer, Wilhelm
* Erard & Cie, S.& P.
* Erard- London
* Erbe, J.
* Ernst Jacob, Mechanik Fabrik Berlin CO
* Erste Produktiv-Genossenschaft
* Ernst Chladni
*
Essenfelder
*
Essex
Essex () is a county in the East of England. One of the home counties, it borders Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to the north, the North Sea to the east, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent across the estuary of the River Thames to the south, and G ...
*
Estey Piano Corp.
*
Estonia
Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...
* Eterna
* Etyde
* Eungblut, Rogers
* Euphona
* Europa
* Euterpe
* Evans
* Everett
* Evertides
F
* F.Dörner & sohn
* Fabbrini
* F.Bach
* F.Rosener
*
Albert Fahr
* Falcone
* Fandrich Piano
* Fandrich & Sons
* Farfisa
* Farrand
* Fayette S. Cable
* Fazer Musik
*
Fazioli
Fazioli Pianoforti (), translated as Fazioli Pianos, produces grand and concert pianos from their factory in Sacile, Italy. The company was founded by engineer and pianist Paolo Fazioli in 1981. The craftsmen at Fazioli build 140 pianos a year. ...
* Feigl, Alois
* Fenner
*
Feurich
* Fibich
* Fibiger
* Fiedler, Gustav
* Finger
* Fiona
* Fischer, Carl
* J&C Fischer
* Focké
* Focké, Georges
* Forenede
* Forrest
* Foster
* Förster & Co.
*
Förster, August
* Francke
* French
* French Starck
* Franz Wolek in Wien
* Fritz Dobbert
* Fuchs
* Fuchs & Möhr
* Fuder, G.
G
*
Gabler Gabler (or Gäbler) is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
*Christoph August Gabler (1767–1839), German composer
*Frank Gabler (1911–1967), American baseball player
* Fritz Gäbler (1897–1974), German politician
*Gabe Gabler (1 ...
*
Gaveau
Gaveau of Paris was a French piano manufacturer. The company was established by Joseph Gabriel Gaveau in 1847 in Paris and was one of the three largest piano makers in France (after Érard and Pleyel). Its factory was located at Fontenay-sous-Bois ...
* Gebr. Perzina
* Gebruder Stingl
* Geissler, F.
*
George Steck
* Gerard
* Gerhard Adam Wesel
* Gerbstädt
* Gerhard Adams
* Gerhard Heintzman
* Gerstenberger
* Gevaert
* Geyer
* Gilbert Hoffman
* Giles Pianos Ltd.
* Gillot-Straube
* Glos & Pflug, Wien
* Glass & Co.
* Glenz (Josef) Breslau
* Godfrey
* Goetze & Co.
* Goetze-Gross
* Gordon & Bailey
* Gordon Laughead
* Gourlay
*
R. Görs & Kallmann
* Görs & Spangenberg
* Gotha
* Gotzmann
* Graf, Conrad
* Graf, Hermann
* Graham & Co London
* Grand
* Grande
* Gratiae
* Grau, F.
* Grimm
* Grinnell Bros.
*
Grotrian-Steinweg
Grotrian-Steinweg, known as Grotrian in the US, is a German manufacturer of prestige pianos. The company is based in Braunschweig, Germany, commonly known as Brunswick in English. Grotrian-Steinweg makes premium grand pianos and upright pianos.
...
* Grover
* Grunert
*
Gulbransen
Gulbransen Company was a musical instrument manufacturer of player pianos and home organs in the United States. It also made reed organs. It was originally established in 1904 by Axel Gulbransen as Gulbransen Piano Company.
In the history of mu ...
* Gunther, J.
* Gunther & Sohne
* Gustafson & Ljungqvist
H
* Haake, Karl
* Haddorff
* Hadley
* Haegele of Aalen
* Haessler
* Hagspiel
* Hahn, Alb.
* Hain, Stephan
* Haines Bros.
* Haileer
* Hailun
* Halle &
* Hallet, Davis & Co.
* Hallett & Cumston
* Hallett, Russell
* Hals
* Hamburger
* Hamilton
* Hammond
* Hampton
* Hanlet
* Hannon Hall
* Hansen, A.
* Hansen, Julius
* Hillmann
* Hansmann, Gebr.
* Hardman
* Harimatis
* Harmsworth & Company
* Harold, F.E.
* Harrison, V. F.
* Hartge, Henry
* Hartmann, W.
* Harvard
* Harwood
* Hasche
* Hasselaar
* Hasseldieck, Dietrich
* Hasti Asghari
* Hauch, J.B.
* Hausmann
* Hautrive
* Hayelson
* Hayes, E. T.
* Hayt, Babcock & Appleton
* Hayts, Babcock & Appleton
* Hazelton & Brother
* Hazelton Brothers
* Healy
* Hedke, Wilh.
* Hegeler
* Heiden, Carl von
* Heinisch
*
Heintzman & Co.
* Heitzmann & Sohn
* Heller
* Hellas
* Hellström
* Helmholz
* Heppel & Theilig
* Hergens, A. G.
* Hermann
* Herrburger
* Herrmann, Alexander
*
Herz, Henri
* Herz Neveu, Philippe
* Heyl, Gustav
* Hijz, Ernest
* Hillgärtner, Heinrich
* Hilton
* Hindsberg
* Hinze
* Hlucháň
*
Hobart M. Cable
* Hoek
* Hoepfner
* Hoerr, Franz
* Hofbauer, Gustav
* Hoffmann, August
* Hoffmann, Georg
*
Hoffmann, W.
* Hoffmann & Kühne
* Hofmann
* Hofmann & Czerny
* Hofmann, Karl
* Hofmann & Scholz
* Hofmann & Schulze
* Hohner
* Hölling & Spangenberg
* Holzl & Heitzmann
* Hoff & Co.
* Hopkinson
* Hornung & Moeller
* Hörügel
* Howard
* Howard Piano Co.
*
HsingHai
* Hummel
* Hundt & Sohn
* Hupfeld
* Hupfer Pianos
* Humphrey, London
* Huntington
* Hyfte, van C.
* Hyundai
I
*
Ibach, Rud.
*
Irmler, J.G.
J
* J. Erbe Eisenach
*
J. G. Irmler
* Jacob Bros.
* Jahn
* James & Holmstrom
* Janowsky, M.
* Janssen
* Jarret & Goudge
* Jasper
* Jaschinsky, A.
* Jefferson
* Jehle
* Jelmini
* Jewett, Boston
* John Raper co.
* Jong de
* Jørgensen, Brødr.
* Julius Bach MFG
* Jurkat, C.
* Jayel
K
![Kingsbury Piano](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/85/Kingsbury_Piano.JPG)
* Kadette
*
Kadenza
* Kaim
* Kaim & Gunther
* Kaiser
* Kann, Georg
* Kappler
*
Kaps, Ernst
* Kasselman
* Katzmarek & Co.
*
Kawai Musical Instruments
is a musical instrument manufacturing company headquartered in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan. It is best known for its grand pianos, upright pianos, digital pianos, electronic keyboards and electronic synthesizers. The company was founded in Augus ...
* Keilberg
* Keislair
* Kemble
* Kenny & Sons
* Kent & Cooper
* Kessels
* Kester, Ludwig
* Keylard
*
Kieselhorst
* Kilbourne
*
Kimball
* Kingsburg
*
Kingsbury Kingsbury may refer to:
Places United Kingdom
* Kingsbury, London, a district of northwest London in the borough of Brent
** Kingsbury tube station, London Underground station
* Kingsbury, Warwickshire, a village and civil parish in Warwickshi ...
* Kirkman
* Kirschner
* Kisting
* Klavins
* Klein
* Klima
* Klingmann
* Kloppe, H.
*
Knabe & Gaehle
*
Knabe, Gaehle & Co.
*
Knabe, Wm. & Co.
*
Knabe Bros.
* Knake
* Knauer
* Knauss
* Knight
* Knöchel Ad.
* Knudsen, J.
* Knudsen & Sons
* Koch & Korselt
* Koch & Co.
*
H. Kohl
* Kohler & Campbell
* Kort de
* Kraft, Aug.
*
Krakauer Brothers
* Kramer
* Kranich & Bach
* Krasnii Oktyabr' (Leningrad)
* Krause, Max
* Krauss
* Krell & French
* Krell
* Kreuizbach
* Kreutzbach, Julius
* Kreutzer
* Kriebel
* Kriegelstein
* Kriegelstein & Arnaud
* Kriegelstein & Plantade
* Krumm
* Kuhla
* Kuhse, Johann
* Kunst
* Kunz
* Kupers
* K.Fenner
* Kurtzmann & Sons
L
![Lauberger & Gloss keyboard in black and white (Unsplash)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d3/Lauberger_%26_Gloss_keyboard_in_black_and_white_%28Unsplash%29.jpg)
* La Petite
* Labrousse
* Lager
* Lagonda
* Lagrima
* Lakeside
* Lambert
* Lancaster
* Lauberger & Gloss
* Laughead, Gordon
* Laurence & Nash
* Laurence & Sons, Alex
* Legnica
* Leguerinais
* Lehman
* Lehmann, Adolf
* Lehmann de Lehnsfeld
* Leichel
* Leijser
* Leipzig
* Lerpée, Carl
* Lesage
* Leschen, Wilhelm
* Lester
* Leswein
* Leutke
* Lichtental
* Liederstrom
* Liehr
* Lieshout & Zonen, M. van
* Lichtenthal, Hermann
* Lighte, F. C.
* Lighte & Bradburys
* Lighte & Ernst
* Lighte & Newton
* Lighte, Newton & Bradburys
* Liljequist, Matthias
* Lincoln
* Lindbergh
*
Lindeman, Wm.
* Lindeman & Sons
* Linden
* Lindholm
* Lindner
* Lindner & Sohn, I.P.
* Lindsay
* Linke
* Lipczinsky, Max
* Lipp
* Lippmann
* Lirika
* Littmann
* Livingstone
* Lohmann Piano Co.
* Lorenz
* Love, Malcolm
*
Lowrey
* Ludwig
* Luis Verdugo & Hijo
* Lummer, Wilh.
* Luner
* Lyon & Healy
* Lyra
* Lyrica
M
* Maeari-Hyundai
* Maetzke
* Mag
* Mage
* Magrini
* Mahler
* Maier,K.
* Malmsjö
* Mand
* Mann, Theodor
* Manner & Co.
* Manner & Gabler
* Mannhorg
* Mansfield
* Manthey
* Marion
* Maristany
* Martins & Ouvrier
* Markx
* Marschall & Mittauer
* Marshall & Rose
* Marshall & Wendell
*
Mason & Hamlin
Mason & Hamlin is a piano manufacturer based in Haverhill, Massachusetts. Founded in 1854, they also manufactured a large number of pump organs during the 19th century.
History 19th century
Mason & Hamlin was founded in Boston, Massachusett ...
* Mason & Risch
*
Mathuschek, F.
*
Mathushek Piano Mfg. Co.
*
Mathushek & Kinkeldey
*
Mathushek & Kühner
*
Mathushek & Son
* Matthaes
* Matz & Co.
* Mätzke, Ed.
* Max Horn Zwickau
* May
* McPhail, A. M.
* Mecklenburg
* Meister
* Meldorf
* Melford
* Melodic
* Melville Clark
* Menzel
* Mercedes
* Merkur
* Mes, A.
* Metropolitan
* Meyer, Conrad
* Meyer, Herman
* Michelle
* Mignon
* Mikula, Gebr.
* Miller, Henry F. Miller (Boston)
* Milton, (John)
* Minse
*
Monington & Weston
* Moore & Moore
* Morley, Robert
* Morrison & Harrison
* Mörs
* Mozart piano company
* Müller
* Müller-Schiedmayer
* Mussard
* Muzelle
* Mühlbach, F.
N
* Nagel
* Nakamichi
* Natori
* Nehammer
* Nelson
*
* Neuburger, Adolf
* Neugebauer
* Neumann
* Neumeyer, Gebr.
* Neupert
* New Winsor
* Niederländer
* Niedermeyer
* Nieër
* Niemeyer
* Niendorf
* Nijmatten
* Nocturno
* Noeske
* Nordiska
* Nord Piano
* Normandie (NY)
[stamped inside the piano in my house]
* Nützmann, Adolf
O
* Offberg
* Omori
* Otto Bach
* Otto Meister
*Oktava
P
* Packard
* Painter & Ewing
* Palatino
* Paling minor
* Pallik & Schicker
* Pallik & Stiasny
*
Pape, Jean-Henri
* Pape fils (Frédéric-Eugène)
* Pappenberger
* Papps
* Parttart, Alois
* Paukert
* Paul Werner (Dresden)
* Pawlek, Josef
*
Pearl River
The Pearl River, also known by its Chinese name Zhujiang or Zhu Jiang in Mandarin pinyin or Chu Kiang and formerly often known as the , is an extensive river system in southern China. The name "Pearl River" is also often used as a catch-a ...
* Peek and Son
* Pepper
* Period Piano Company
* Perzina, Gebr.
* Peterborgh
*
Petrof
* Petrov
*
Petzold
* Peukert
* Pfaffe, Julius
* Pfeiffer
* Pfeiffer, J.
* Philipps
* Phillip
* Phillips
* Piano Disc
* Pianova
* Picassi
*
Pleyel
Ignace Joseph Pleyel (; ; 18 June 1757 – 14 November 1831) was an Austrian-born French composer, music publisher and piano builder of the Classical period.
Life Early years
He was born in in Lower Austria, the son of a schoolmaster named Ma ...
* Plymouth
* Poestkoke
* Pohlmann, Leonhard
* Pokorny
* Poletti & Tuinman
* Pons Gary
* Poole
*
Pramberger
* Prein, Friedrich
* President
* Prestel
* Price & Teeple
* Probst, Georg
* Produktiv-G.,E.
* Proksch, A.
* Proskowec
* Protze
* Psalmist
* Purcell
Q
* Quandt
* Quispel
R
* Rachals
* Raehse-Repia
* Rameau
* Ramsberger
* Rathke, R.
* Rahmann
* Raudenbush & Sons
* Rauzer
* Ravenstein
* Ravenscroft
* Red October
* Regent
* Reichelt & Birnbaum
* Reid Sohn
* Reingardt, V. K.
* Reinhard
* Reinhold
* Reino Ikonen
* Reisbach
* Rekewitz, Wilh.
* Renn
* Repia
* Rhiendorf
* Richard Lipp & Sohn
* Richmann
* Ridgewood
* Rieger-Kloss
* Riese
* Riga
* Rijken
* Rijken & de Lange
* Rippen
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Ritmüller
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W. Ritmüller & Sohn
* Ritter
* Robinson
* Rogers
* Rogers, George
* Rohlfing
* Rohr, Alfred
* Roland
* Roller & Blanchet
* Roloff, H
* Römhildt
* Ronaldi
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Karl Rönisch
Karl Rönisch is a piano manufacturer in Dresden, Germany.
The owner Karl Moritz Hermann Rönisch was awarded an imperial and royal warrant of appointment to the court of Austria-Hungary.
The company exported to Russia and, to avoid high tariffs, ...
* Rordorf
* Rösch-Le Sage
* Rosenbach
* Rosenberg
* Rosenkranz
* Rösler
*
G. Rösler
* Roth & Junius
* Roth Pianos
* Royale
* Royale-Classic
* Rubenstein
* Ruch
*
Rud. Ibach Sohn
* Russell and Russell
* Russell, George
* Ruyter
* R. Vogel
* Robinson
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* Sabel
* Sagenhaft
* Sakura
* Samaniego
* Sames, William
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Samick
Samick Musical Instruments Co., Ltd. (Hangul: 삼익악기, also known as Samick) is a South Korean musical instrument manufacturer. Founded in 1958 as Samick Pianos, it is now one of the world's largest musical instrument manufacturers and an o ...
* Sandbergen
* Sängler & Sohne
* Sassmann
* Saturn
* Sauter
* Schaaf & Co.
* Schaaf, Hermann
* Schadhauser, Johann
* Schafer & Sons
* Schanz
* Scharf & Hauk
* Scheel, Carl
* Schellenkens, G.
* Schell, Lothar
* Schemelli & Co.
* Schiedmayer, J.& P.
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Schiedmayer Schiedmayer is the name of a German Instrument-manufacturing family. Established in 1735 as a keyboard instrument manufacturer, it is still active today as a family business.
History Beginnings
The first instrument maker in the family was Balt ...
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Schiller
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (, short: ; 10 November 17599 May 1805) was a German playwright, poet, and philosopher. During the last seventeen years of his life (1788–1805), Schiller developed a productive, if complicated, friendsh ...
* Schilling, Fr.
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Schimmel
* Schindhelm
* Schindler
* Schirmer & Son
* Schlögl
* Schmidt
* Schmidt-Flohr
* Schmidt Pianos
* Schmitz
* Schnell, R.A.
* Scholze
* Schramm&Sons
* Schröder, C.M.
* Schroeder
* Schröther
* Schruder
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Schubert
Franz Peter Schubert (; 31 January 179719 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras. Despite his short lifetime, Schubert left behind a vast ''oeuvre'', including more than 600 secular vocal wor ...
* Schuerman
* Schultz & Sons
* Schulze & Sohn
* Schulze & Pollmann
* Schumann
* Schuppe & Neumann
* Schütz & Co.
* Schütze
* Schuetze & Ludolff
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Schwechten, G.
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Schweighofer
Schweighofer was a piano manufacturer from Vienna, Austria.
History
Schweighofer is one of Vienna's most famous piano houses, as well as its oldest, having been established in 1792 by Michael Schweighofer (1771–1809). The company applied ...
* Schweizerstein
* Schwester
* Seeger
* Seidel, Rob
* Seidel & Sohn
* Seiler, Ed.
* Seiler, Max
* Sejung Piano Co.
* Settergren
* Settergren Piano Co.
* Seuffert
* Sherlock - Manning
* Sherman, Clay
* Shima-Jehle
* Shimler
* Shigeru
* Shigeru Kawai
* Shoninger
* Shorewood
* Siegel, Rudolf
* Siewert
* Silbermann
* Singer
* Skop
* Silvia
* Smart, Charles
* Smidt & Wegener
* Snel
*
Sohmer & Co.
* Sojin
* Solton
* Sommerfeld
* Sonor
* Sonore
* Soph, Joseph
* Sopnnagel
* Soward
* Spencer
* Spencer & Murdoch
* Squire
* Squire and Longson
* Standaart
* Stapel
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Starck
Starck is a German surname, which means a strong, bold person, from the Middle High German ''starke'', meaning "strong" or "brave".''Dictionary of American Family Names''"Stark Family History" Oxford University Press, 2013. Retrieved on 16 January ...
* Starckette & Kenmore
* Starr Piano Co.
* Staub & Co.
* Staub, J.
* Steck
* Steck, George
* Steger & Sons
* Steigerman
* Stein
* Steinbach
* Steinbach, Alex
* Steinberg
* Steinberg, Gerh.
* Steinberg, Wilh
* Steiner, B.
* Steiner, Bernhard
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Steingraeber & Söhne
The Steingraeber Piano Manufactory (until 2022 Steingraeber & Söhne) is a major German manufacturer of Grand Piano, grand and Piano, upright pianos. The family business was founded 1852 in Bayreuth, where the instruments are still manufactured to ...
* Steinhoven
* Steinmann, Wilh.
* Steinmayer
* Steinthal, L.
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Steinway & Sons
Steinway & Sons, also known as Steinway (), is a German-American piano company, founded in 1853 in Manhattan by German piano builder Henry E. Steinway, Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg (later known as Henry E. Steinway). The company's growth led to ...
* Steinway Haus
* Stelzhammer
* Stenger
* Sterling
* Stichel, F.
* Stingl, Gebr.
* Stingl, Ignaz
* Stöcker, Theodor
* Stockholm
* Stoddart
* Story & Clark
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Straube
* Strauss
* Streicher
* Strindberg
* Strohmenger & Sons
* Strothier
* Stroud
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Stuart and Sons
* Stuyvesant
* Stultz
* Sturn
* Suzuki
* Svahnquist
* Svenska
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* Tallone
* Tamta
* Taubert
* Tchaikovsky
* Temple
* Tetsch & May
* Thalèn
* Thayer
* Theilig, Rich.
* Thein
* Therson
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Th. Mann & Co.
* Thomas & Avarsea
* Thuringer
* Tischner, J. A.
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Thürmer, Ferd.
* Tokai
* Tokiwa
* Tolkien
* tonk
* Tormin, C.
* Toyo
* Toyo Appolo
* Trautwein
* Trübger, Emil
* Tschaika
* Tuch & Geyer
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*
Uebel & Lechleiter
* Ühlmann
* Ukraina
* United Piano Makers, New York
* Urbas, Johann
* Urbas & Kuhne
* Urbas & Reishauer
* Urk & Sons
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* Van Hyfte
* Van der Does
* Van Lieshout
* Van Veen J.
* Van Veen W.
* Verkooij
* Vermy
* Vertigrand
* Victor W.H Paling & Co
* Vijgeboom Joh.
* Vijgeboom Johs.
* Van Vloten
* Vose & Sons
* Vogel & Co.
* Vogel, Robert
* Vogel & Sohn
* Vogeler & Co.
* Voigt, Adolf Ernst
* Volkening
* Vollmer
* Vough
W
* Waddington
* Wagner
* Wagener & Co, Berlin
* Waldhäusl, Robert
* Waldstein
* Wallace Ash
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Wallace Pianoforte Co.
* Walsmann M.
* Walter, Charles R.
* Waltham Piano Co.
* Warfield
* Wasniczek
* Waters, Horace
*
Watlen, John
* Weaver
*
Weber
* Webster
* Wegman
* Weidenslaufer
* Weidig, C.
* Weihenmeyer & Co.
* Weinbach
* Weinstein and Sons
* Weiss
* Weissbrod
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Wellington
Wellington ( mi, Te Whanganui-a-Tara or ) is the capital city of New Zealand. It is located at the south-western tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Remutaka Range. Wellington is the second-largest city in New Zealand by me ...
* Welmar U.K.
* Welzel P.F.
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Wendl & Lung
* Werch, Lothar
* Werner, F.W.
* Werner, Hans
*
Wertheim
* Westbrook
* Westerlund
* Wetzel
* Whelpdale
* Whitmore
* Whitney
* Whittaker
* Wieck
* Wieler
*
Wilh Steinberg
*
Wilhelm Spaethe
*
Wilkinson, George
*
Wilkinson & Wornum
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William Wallace Kimball
William Wallace Kimball (1828–1904) was the founder of the company now known as Kimball International.
Biography
Kimball was born in Rumford, Maine on March 22, 1828. He moved to Decorah, Iowa, in his mid-twenties and became a real estate b ...
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Williams & Son, R.S.
* Williams Piano Co.
* Williamson
* Willermann
*
Willis & Co.
* Wilson
* Winchester
* Windhofer, Rudolf
* Windover
* Windsor
* Winkelmann & Co.
* Winkler, Paul
* Winter && Co.
* Wirth, Johann
* Wittmayer
* Witton and Witton
* Wohlfahrt
*
Wolfframm
* Wolkenhauer
* Woodchester
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Wornum, Robert
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Wornum, Robt. & Sons
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Wurlitzer
The Rudolph Wurlitzer Company, usually referred to as simply Wurlitzer, is an American company started in Cincinnati in 1853 by German immigrant (Franz) Rudolph Wurlitzer. The company initially imported stringed, woodwind and brass instruments ...
* W. P. Emerson Piano Co.
* W.Naessens
* Wyman
X
* Xinghai Beijing Piano Co.
Y
*
Yamaha Yamaha may refer to:
* Yamaha Corporation, a Japanese company with a wide range of products and services, established in 1887. The company is the largest shareholder of Yamaha Motor Company (below).
** Yamaha Music Foundation, an organization estab ...
*
Young Chang
HDC YoungChang (Hangul: HDC영창) is a South Korean manufacturer of pianos and industrial wood working machinery, headquartered in Incheon, South Korea. Young Chang currently holds 50% of the South Korean piano market. The company is among the l ...
* Yangtze River
Z
* Zahl, Georg
* Zeitter & Winkelmann
* Zender, Sydney
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Zimmermann
Zimmermann is a German occupational surname for a carpenter. The modern German terms for the occupation of carpenter are Zimmerer, Tischler, or Schreiner, but Zimmermann is still used.
''Zimmer'' in German means room or archaically a chamber wi ...
* Zwang
* Zwicki
• Zapka
See also
*
List of piano manufacturers
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 ...
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Innovations in the piano
Piano construction is by now a rather conservative area; most of the technological advances were made by about 1900, and indeed it is possible that some contemporary piano buyers might actually be suspicious of pianos that are made differently fro ...
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Pedal piano
The pedal piano (or piano-pédalier or pédalier,) is a kind of piano that includes a pedalboard, enabling bass register notes to be played with the feet, as is standard on the organ.
There are two broad types of pedal pianos: either the pedal ...
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Piano acoustics
Piano acoustics is the set of physical properties of the piano that affect its sound. It is an area of study within musical acoustics.
String length, mass and tension
The strings of a piano vary in thickness, and therefore in mass per length, w ...
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Piano key frequencies
This is a list of the fundamental frequencies in hertz (cycles per second) of the keys of a modern 88-key standard or 108-key extended piano in twelve-tone equal temperament, with the 49th key, the fifth A (called A4), tuned to 440 Hz (referr ...
(in
equal temperament
An equal temperament is a musical temperament or tuning system, which approximates just intervals by dividing an octave (or other interval) into equal steps. This means the ratio of the frequencies of any adjacent pair of notes is the same, wh ...
)
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Piano roll
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Piano tuning
Piano tuning is the act of adjusting the tension of the strings of an acoustic piano so that the musical intervals between strings are in tune. The meaning of the term 'in tune', in the context of piano tuning, is not simply a particular fixed ...
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Player piano
A player piano (also known as a pianola) is a self-playing piano containing a pneumatic or electro-mechanical mechanism, that operates the piano action via programmed music recorded on perforated paper or metallic rolls, with more modern i ...
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Prepared piano
A prepared piano is a piano that has had its sounds temporarily altered by placing bolts, screws, mutes, rubber erasers, and/or other objects on or between the strings. Its invention is usually traced to John Cage's dance music for ''Bacchanale' ...
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Social history of the piano Early years
At the time of its origin around the year 1700, the piano was a speculative invention, produced by the well-paid craftsman and inventor Bartolomeo Cristofori for his wealthy patron Ferdinando de Medici, Grand Prince of Florence. As such ...
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String piano
String piano is a term coined by American composer-theorist Henry Cowell (1897–1965) to collectively describe those pianistic extended techniques in which sound is produced by direct manipulation of the strings, instead of or in addition to str ...
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Tangent piano
The tangent piano is a very rare keyboard instrument that resembles a harpsichord and early pianos in design. It normally features five octaves of keys and the strings are acted upon by narrow wooden or metal slips when the keys are depressed.
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References
Bibliography
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Larry Fine
Louis Feinberg (October 5, 1902 – January 24, 1975), known professionally as Larry Fine, was an American actor, comedian, and musician. He is best known as a member of the comedy act the Three Stooges.
Early life
Fine was born to a Russian Je ...
; ''The Piano Book: Buying & Owning a New or Used Piano'' (Annual Supplement to the Piano Book); Brookside Press; 2005; {{ISBN, 1-929145-17-9
piano
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 ...
Piano
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 ...