More player pianos were built in America between 1900 and 1930 than any other single type of piano. A conventional player piano is operated via a perforated paper roll inserted above the keyboard, and large pumping pedals below the keyboard. While pumping these pedals, vacuum is created which pulls air through the holes in the paper roll, causing the piano note to play. By 1910, all major manufacturers had at least one line of player pianos. By 1920, player pianos dominated the market place.
In the years before the phonograph and radio, the player piano was the only means of musical entertainment for the public at large. They were as common in the household then as our big screen television is today! Thousands of song titles were available for player piano rolls, and rolls were sold by the millions. By the time the Great Depression hit, the radio and phonograph offered a much more affordable means of entertainment, and the player piano seemed to vanish overnight. In the last part of the 18 th century, John Jacob Astor started importing square grand pianos to America from Europe. By the turn of the 19 th century, a handful of makers are recorded as having made some of the first square grand pianos in America.
For the next 100 years, the square grand piano would evolve into a larger, heavier, and more mechanically refined instrument. During the 19 th century, American piano makers built and sold more square grand pianos than grand pianos or upright pianos! Our vintage ephemera collections show these square grand pianos selling for as much as $800 in the mid 19th century – the cost of a small house! Sadly, however, they are all but forgotten today.
By about 1880-1890, the American upright piano began to win favor as being more fashionable than the square grand piano. Because they were smaller and took up less space, the upright piano caused the square grand piano to become obsolete by 1900. 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. 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 grands available. These mid-19 th entury grand pianos were rarely less than six feet long, and were usually very massive and striking in appearance.
Like square grands, they were ususally made of exotic rosewood or mahogany and were beautifully carved. As the 1880s and 1890s approached, the square grand piano began to fade in popularity, and manufacturers started promoting their lines of grand and upright pianos. By the last decade of the 19 th century, the square grand piano had all but disappeared in favor of the grand piano. In the early 20 th century the grand piano, like the upright piano, began to become a bit streamlined and simplified in design.
By about 1910, smaller baby grand pianos started to become popular. These early baby grand pianos were still a bit larger and more massive than the baby grand pianos produced in the 1920s, but they were a step in the evolution toward the tiny apartment size baby grand pianos of the 1930s and 1940s. These baby grand pianos were offered in a wide variety of styles, often to compliment particular periods in furniture design, but the most popular style by far was the spade-leg classic design that most of us associate with the traditional baby grand piano of today. By the 1930s onward, tiny baby grand pianos, like the tiny spinet upright piano, continued to be popular in the modern American home as people moved into smaller houses and apartments. These tiny pianos were often referred to as “Apartment Size” baby grand pianos, sometimes measuring as little as 52 inches long! During the mid to late 19 th Century, most major manufacturers were building organs for home use.
These were commonly referred to a “Parlor Organs”, “Reed Organs” and “Pump Organs”. These organs were operated via pumping of large foot pedals which would force air across a bank of reeds. Early organs were fairly basic in design and appearance, but the organs built in the last quarter of the 19 th Century were some of the most elaborate and lavish instruments money could buy.
The organs built during this era often had very high backs with carved panels, shelves, mirrors, etc. They were truly a hallmark in Victorian design! By the-turn-of-the-century, the organ had all but disappeared as the piano became the instrument of choice for the American home. Designed for institutional and church use, the Chapel Organ was basically the same instrument as the parlor organ. The major difference was in the cabinet.
First, the cabinet was usually short so that the organist could see over it to face the choir or congregation. Second, the back of the instrument was usually finished with beautifully carved woodwork or fretwork in case the instrument was to be placed with the back facing the choir or congregation. Often, the more elaborate versions had a greater musical quality than the typical parlor organs built for the home. By the turn of the century, the organ had all but vanished in favor of the more popular piano. Organ manufacturers were scrambling to survive, so many of them turned to piano building.
A handful of makers built what is referred to as a “Piano-Cased Organ” in hopes that an organ that had the appearance of a piano would help boost sales in the organ market! These were literally reed organs built into piano cabinets, with the piano pedals being converted to pumping pedals to operate the organ bellows.
These instruments are exceedingly rare today, and they were only produced for a few years around the late 19 th and early 20 th centuries. The Melodeon was produced in the early to middle 19 th century, and was the forerunner to the late 19th century Parlor Organ. Melodeons were usually simple instruments with one set of reeds, and often looked like a miniature square grand piano. They had large iron pumping pedals to move the air across the reeds. Melodeons were built by the thousands prior to the Civil War, but they are very rare today. Because of their age and place in history, most melodeons are of museum caliber today and deserve the finest restoration and preservation possible. Upright pianos built in England during the 19th century were some of the most lavish and beautiful pianos ever built.
American and other European manufacturers held most of patents that aided in the piano’s evolution, and they were taking great strides in design and development. Most English piano builders seemed to stay several decades behind America and the rest of Europe in progress and evolution, not fully catching up until just before the turn of the century. English upright pianos can usually be identified by their lavishly burled woods, smaller petite size, and their signature silver or brass candle sconces delicately mounted on either side of the front panel.
Although these pianos were quite beautiful with their exotic burled wood inlay and candelabras, they were mechanically primitive compared to other instruments being manufactured throughout the world. Many of these instruments were equipped with what is today called a “birdcage action,” an unusual type of upright piano action with the damper wires running in the front of the action with the actual dampers themselves mounted over the tops of the hammers. Pianos with birdcage action are very difficult to service and tune, but not impossible.
A restored English piano has a light, mellow tone not unlike that of the American square grand, reflecting Europe’s love affair with the sound of the early pianoforte. Parts for these instruments are scarce, and rebuilding is usually expensive yet justified because of their unusually elaborate cases.Note that not all English makers built primitive pianos in the 19 th century.
Top English brand names like Broadwood, Brinsmead and Collard & Collard built very good quality, advanced instrument during the 19 th century era, making an exception to the rule. During World War II, American piano manufacturers ceased production to assist in the war effort.
Rationing made it impossible to build a piano during those years, so piano tuners and rebuilders saw a golden opportunity to keep up with the public’s demands by introducing the “mirror piano.” They simply took a large old upright, often a gutted player piano, cut a step-shelf along the top, and secured a mirror across the exposed back so that the piano had the appearance of being smaller or more modern. These “restyled” pianos became very popular during the war, and unfortunately this trend continued for another 30 years. Hundreds of thousands of heirloom pianos were butchered during these years, and they are still commonly encountered. Because irreparable damage was done to the integrity of the instrument, mirror pianos are seldom worth more than a few hundred dollars at best. Pianos built after the Great Depression are commonly referred to as “Mid-Century Modern” pianos.
These pianos are generally not considered to be “antique” pianos, but they are vintage. The “Golden Age” of piano building in America reached an end by the time the Great Depression hit.
After 1929, American piano sales plummeted, never again to reach the volume sold during the ‘teens and ‘twenties. With the radio and photograph being popular and inexpensive means for home entertainment, the high-priced piano had become somewhat of an unaffordable luxury in the American home. American piano manufacturers suffered greatly during the Great Depression, and builders scrambled to find a way to save the industry. By this time the large full-size upright piano was being discontinued for smaller, less expensive and more “modern-looking” instruments with streamlined design. Shortly after the Great Depression hit, the piano industry introduced the “Spinet” piano, which was basically an upright piano of very small proportions – often standing no more than 36 inches high! The spinet piano took the public by storm, and all major manufacturers began producing them. Soon the console piano was introduced.
Console pianos generally start at about 42 inches high and are slightly taller than a spinet piano. Small uprights, just a bit larger than a console piano, were also introduced and sold as “studio uprights.” These studio upright pianos usually measured from about 46 inches to about 52 inches high. These small “Mid-Century Modern” pianos saved the American piano industry, carrying it through the Great Depression and into the World War II years. Since then, most upright pianos are of the spinet or console type.
Although many makers have consistently produced smaller studio uprights, the large upright piano of the early 19 th century was never built again.
Bluebook Of Pianos HOW OLD IS YOUR PIANO? - FIND THE AGE & SERIAL NUMBER OF YOUR PIANO Some piano manufacturers place serial numbers in various places.
The age of your piano is determined by the. Pianos also have numbers other than serial numbers, such is the case with part or patent numbers.
Some pianos do not have serial numbers when they are manufactured as 'House Brands' for large retailers. 1907-4600 1908-5400 1909-6300 1910-7200 1911-8000 1912-9100 1913-21300 Jesse French Numbers 1904-1-1-1-1-1-108000. (Baldwin Uprights and Verticals, Classic, Ellington, Franke, Howard before 1959, Kremlin, Manuelo, Modello, Monarch, St. Regis, Sargent, Schroeder, Valley Gem and Winton). All Baldwin Upright or Vertical Pianos - Does not include Hamilton Studios or Baldwin Grand Pianos. 1895-2000 1917-1-2-5- 9-14-9000 1918-1-2-5-10-15-1-2-6-10-15-1-2-6-10-15-1-3-6-11-15-1-3-6-11-15-1-3-7-11-15-1-3-7-12-15-1-3-7-12-15-1-3-7-12-15-1-3-7-13-15-2-4-8-13-15-2-4-8-13-15-2-4-8-13-15-2-4-8-14-15-2-4-9-14-15-2-5-9-14-15-2-5-9-14-1577266.
AEOLIAN - AMERICAN Est. 1903 - New York, N.Y. The manufacturing facilities at East Rochester was comprised of a series of separate and individual factories planned so that manufacturing of the various instruments was carried on in an entirely individual and distinct manner, and by separate organizations, each under direction of men who had been associated with each respective make for many years, thus preserving, unimpaired, the individual and distinctive qualities of each piano. Combined they made a great and powerful contribution to the art of music, for each of the great instruments they produced will continue providing magnificent music for generations to come.
Name brands built in East Rochester include Chickering & Sons, J & C Fischer, Wm. Knabe, Mason & Hamlin, and George Steck. Tremaine was a business genius who brought about the commercial exploitation of the piano player on a big scale. Tremaine's father had built a successful small business making and cranked table-top-sized mechanical organs, a very popular item in homes in the late 1800's.
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He founded the 'Aeolian Organ and Music Company' around 1888; the firm achieved considerable success with larger instruments and organs. His son took over in 1899 and immediately set about to apply his own business acumen to the company's affairs. With the newly perfected 'Pianola,' he launched an aggressive advertising campaign which was entirely new to the stodgy piano business.
With four page color advertisements (almost unheard of in that day) published in the popular magazines, he literally stunned the piano industry with the message that here, indeed, was the answer to everyone's prayer for music in the home! Tremaine and Pianola built an enormous business empire over the next thirty years. It wasn't long after the turn of the century that it was deemed desirable to 'miniaturize' the clumsy Pianola and other similar, instruments so that they could be built directly inside the pianos. Within a few short years, the push up'players disappeared from the scene. By this time everyone got into the act, and every piano maker so manufactured a player of some sort.
This name is known the world over in connection with musical instruments, It is applied to some of the various products of the Aeolian Company of New York which instruments of renown included the Duo Art Pianola, Weber Pianola, Steck Pianola, Wheelock Pianola, Stuyvesant Pianola, Steinway Duo Art Pianola, Stroud Pianola the Aeolian Orchestrelle and the Aeolian Pipe Organ; it also controlled the Meludee Music Co., Inc., and the Universal Music Co. 1903-1900 1904-3000 1905-5400 1906-9000 1907-98000 AEOLIAN-AMERICAN DIVISION OF AEOLIAN CORP. Piano lines controlled and manufactured by this Division listed alphabetically include Chickering & Sons, Wm. Knabe & Co., Mason & Hamlin and Weber. The manufacturing facilities at East Rochester consist of over 250,000 sq.
Of space situated on over eight acres of land occupied and devoted exclusively to the manufacture of only pianos since 1906. Aeolian was one of America's largest producers of grand pianos. Instruments made by Aeolian American Division enjoyed an unquestioned reputation throughout the world AEOLIAN - AMERICAN CORPORATION - Founded 1932 Aeolian - American was the consolidation of the American Piano Company, Aeolian Piano Company formerly Winter & Company, and Weber Piano Company. Factories were located at East Rochester N.Y., Worchester Ma. And Memphis, Tenn. Aeolian probably produced more instruments than any other company in the U.S.
Founded as Heller & Co. In 1899, later incorporated as Winter & Co.
In 1903, the firm became affiliated with Sears Roebuck and Co. In 1941 William G. Heller, Henry R. Heller and associates acquired the Sears interest and devoted the production to defense work during World War II. Faith in the industry and the conviction that the piano industry needed someone to keep the venerable manufacturers in operation, Aeolian has acquired companies which would not otherwise have survived. During 1960 the work force included only excellent craftsmen under the direction of people who had been associated with these fine makes for many years, thus preserving unimpaired the Individual and distinctive quality of each piano. The affiliation of the various houses that formed this large and powerful contributing force to the art of music, insures for each a wider scope for musical activity in that each of its units was of the highest quality in its grade, which had an extraordinary economy of production.
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This company's purchasing power contributed immeasurably to the integrity and value of instruments that were made in the various Divisions. Aeolian Corporation, which in 1982 owned over 40 registered brand names, the product of merger and acquisitions over the years combining 16 domestic piano producers and the largest Canadian producer. Recognition was given by the trade to the various Aeolian lines is the best evidence that Aeolian Corporation pianos manufactured in Memphis and East Rochester, fulfilled every requirement in grands, studios, spinets, consoles and players in a variety of scales and finishes, as well as case designs. Aeolian produced not only the concert and beginners piano, but also for the artist and leisure time musician. Although production ceased in 1982 and 1985 there are countless thousands of Aeolian -American pianos still in use throughout America, in private homes, schools, churches and rental fleets. They were not always the most expensive, and some of their designs were, while aesthetically correct they weren't always perfect, but they did and still do provide students with the perfect entry level piano ever made at a price that most families could afford.
A B Chase Gabler Musette Aeolian Haines & Co. Normandie Armstrong Haines Bros.
Pease Bent, George P. Haines Pianette Bradbury Hallet & Davis Pianola Brewster Hardman Poole D.S. Buchanan Heller & Company Primatone Cable Holmer & Sons Restonic Cable, Fayette S. Rudolph Carola Huntington Schneider, Chickering Ivers & Pond Schiller Conover - Cable Kingsbury George Steck Cook, J.B. Knabe Sterling Crown Kranich & Bach Sting Duo - Art Laffargue Stratford Elbridge Lindeman Stroud Ellsworth Marshall & Wendell Stuyvesant Emerson Mason & Hamlin Vose & Sons Euphona Mehlin & Sons R.
Waude, J & C. Fischer Melodigrand Weber Foster - Armstrong Mendelssohn Wheelock Franklin Henry F. Miller Wellington See individual names for numbers not listed. Aeolian distinguished itself as a piano maker, not merely an assembler. Aeolian plants produced pianos that were quality assured, one of the reasons that over the years many of the largest school systems in the United States have selected their pianos exclusively.
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In addition, broadcasting stations, colleges, music schools, universities, operas, and symphonies have countless Aeolian pianos in constant service, this was during the time that American Institutions purchased pianos on limited budgets, not as commercial endorsements or University and College Piano Sale locations. IVERS & POND and AEOLIAN NUMBERS. 1885-3000 1918-1-7000 1919-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-Discontinued POOLE & AEOLIAN NUMBERS. Pianos bearing this well known and an honorable name is the product of The Baldwin Piano and in the best sense of the word, instruments of the highest degree of excellence. The system or chain of scientific improvements of the Baldwin piano based on the law of acoustics, and known as the Baldwin acoustic system, which permitted the greatest conservation of tone, secures an artistic result of the highest quality, and has resulted in gaining for.
It enjoys a leading position among the world's artistic musical instruments. Baldwin is now owned by the Gibson Guitar Company. Historically: The Baldwin piano has an individuality of the highest character.
When it was exhibited at the International Exposition at Paris in 1900 it was honored with an award (The Grand Prix) which has never been bestowed on any, other American piano, and the highest honor ever received by any, piano made In America. The Baldwin pianos are made in most modem and perfectly equipped factories under ideal manufacturing conditions.
Raghav dance music mp3 download. At the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, Mo., 1904, the Baldwin piano was again awarded the Grand Prize and still another Grand Prize was awarded the Baldwin pianos and Manualos at the Anglo-American Exposition, London, 1914. The 'New York Tribune,' in commenting on the comprehensive display of the Baldwin Company at Paris, and the success of this piano and this house, said that they made a record that would never he forgot in the history of uprights, grands and reproducing pianos, the grands including the various sizes from concert grands to small grands for parlors. In Rome, 1923, the Baldwin piano was awarded the Papal Medal and the House of Baldwin appointed 'Purveyors to the Holy See.' The Baldwin piano is recognized as a universal favorite between the leading operatic artists and virtuosos of the pianoforte. The Baldwin Manualo is a unification of the most artistic piano with the most scientific players' construction; in other words, it combines the highest artistic attainment in piano production with the most gratifying ability of performance. Built by BALDWIN (Baldwin Uprights and Verticals, Classic, Ellington, Franke, Howard before 1959, Kremlin, Manuelo, Modello, Monarch, St.
Regis, Sargent, Schroeder, Valley Gem and Winton). All Baldwin Upright or Vertical Pianos - Does not include Hamilton Studios or Baldwin Grand Pianos.
Finding the Serial Number on Your Piano Pianos almost always have a serial number somewhere. They can be in unusual places and this page shows some of the places to find the serial number. Dates that are cast into the plate of a piano are dates when the company was founded and not dates for the particular piano.
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You are usually looking for a 5 or 6 digit number. Some piano have other numbers stamped on them that are used in the manufacturing process. Grand Pianos The most common place on a grand piano is stamped on the plate in the V shaped area between the tenor and the bass sections of the plate or at the treble end. Sometimes the number is stamped in the soundboard under the strings. Kimball pianos sometimes have the serial number in a hard-to-find place stamped on the back edge of the keybed. This is looking from the tail end of the piano. Upright Pianos Uprights usually have the serial number stamped on the plate near the top of the piano or stamped in a window in the plate.