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  2. Straube Piano Company - Wikipedia

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    The Straube Piano Company (1895–1937) and its successor Straube Pianos Inc. (1937–1949) were American piano manufacturers of uprights, grands, players, and reproducing grands . Straube was a prominent manufacturer during the golden age of piano making, roughly 1875 to 1932, when pianos had few competitors for home entertainment.

  3. Baldwin Piano Company - Wikipedia

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    The Baldwin Piano Company is an American piano brand. It was once the largest US-based manufacturer of keyboard instruments and was known by the slogan, "America's Favorite Piano". Since 2001, it has been a subsidiary of Gibson Brands, Inc. [3] Baldwin ceased domestic production in December 2008, moving its piano manufacturing to China.

  4. Chicago Southland - Wikipedia

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    The Chicago Southland is a region comprising the south and southwest suburbs of the City of Chicago in the U.S. state of Illinois. Home to roughly 2.5 million residents, this region has been known as the Southland by the local populace and regional media for over 20 years. [1] Despite this relatively recent term, some older native Southlanders ...

  5. North Shore (Chicago) - Wikipedia

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    Communities and their years of settlement and incorporation Many credit Walter S. Gurnee as the father of the North Shore. One of the earliest known monographs to be devoted to the North Shore, The Book of the North Shore (1910), and its companion volume, The Second Book of the North Shore (1911), were written by Marian A. White, whose husband J. Harrison White had established a weekly ...

  6. craigslist - Wikipedia

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    Craigslist Inc. Craigslist (stylized as craigslist) is a privately held American company [5] operating a classified advertisements website with sections devoted to jobs, housing, for sale, items wanted, services, community service, gigs, résumés, and discussion forums.

  7. Bush Conservatory of Music - Wikipedia

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    The Conservatory was founded in 1901 by William Lincoln Bush (1861–1941), [1] [2] of the Chicago-based piano manufacturer and retailer, Bush & Gerts Piano Company, a company that he co-founded as W. H. Bush and Company in 1885 with (i) his father, William H. Bush, and (ii) a noted, German-born piano-maker, John Gerts (1845–1913). [3] The ...

  8. Music of Chicago - Wikipedia

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    Music of Chicago. Chicago, Illinois is a major center for music [1] in the midwestern United States where distinctive forms of blues (greatly responsible for the future creation of rock and roll ), and house music, a genre of electronic dance music, were developed. The "Great Migration" of poor black workers from the South into the industrial ...

  9. Moissaye Boguslawski - Wikipedia

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    He was born in Chicago in 1887 to Russian immigrants with significant musical background. Despite the family's poverty, Boguslawski began piano lessons at age 4 and began playing in public at weddings at the age of 10. By age 15 he was performing at a dance hall in Chicago. He also studied briefly with Rudolph Ganz.

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