Baby Grand Piano Manufacturers
There is also a huge number of piano brand names.
Baby grand piano manufacturers. This listing contains hundreds of pianos in it s long history of manufacturing. 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. Charles walter is a relative newcomer which builds only about 65. This list also includes names of old instruments which are no longer in production.
Steinway makes about 2500 pianos a year. 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 built. Mason hamlin. The united states only has 3 manufacturers left although there used to be hundreds of piano companies building in america.
Many piano company names on this list are no longer used and the makers in some cases have been out of business for years. Prior to the civil war the square grand piano was the piano of choice by american manufacturers. There were a limited number of grand pianos built during the early 19 th century but they were few and far between. Today we have only.
By the late 1860s and early 1870s conventional grand piano models began to appear in the sales catalogs of most manufacturers but were still dominated by the selection of square.