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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.
Pianos. 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.
Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, the company proclaimed itself "the world's greatest manufacturer of pianos, inner player pianos, and organs". [1] [2] [3] It was indubitably one of the largest, and maintained that status for several decades during the apogee of U.S. piano sales, the so-called Golden Age of the Piano . [4]
Pianos. P. A. Starck Piano was a piano company headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, United States. It was founded in 1891 and closed in 1965. [1] It was said that its "bent acoustic rim ... [gave] the Starck upright the tone of a grand piano and [made] it especially well adapted for concert use". [2]
In 1880, Wurlitzer started manufacturing its own pianos, which the company sold through its retail outlets in Chicago. In 1896, Wurlitzer manufactured its first coin-operated pianos. In the late 1800s, fairs were popular. As crowds grew and mechanical rides began to appear, there was a need for louder music. The fairground organ was developed.
In 1959, Baldwin constructed a new piano manufacturing plant in Conway, Arkansas, originally to manufacture upright pianos: by 1973, the company had built 1,000,000 upright pianos. In 1961 Baldwin constructed a new piano factory in Greenwood, Mississippi. Subsequently production of upright pianos was moved from Cincinnati, Ohio to Greenwood.
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