How Many Piano Brands Are There? 🎹

How many brands of piano are there? There’s no single official total: roughly 50 active piano manufacturers is a useful ballpark, while historical directories contain more than 1,000 piano brand names. Those figures count different things—companies that make pianos versus…

1930 Piano Manufacturers: 20 Historic Brands 🎹

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Video: The 1920s Factory Trick That Changed Every Piano You’ve Ever Bought. The 1930 piano manufacturers included celebrated American and European makers such as Steinway & Sons, Baldwin, Mason & Hamlin, Kimball, C. Bechstein, and Bösendorfer, alongside companies that later…

🎹 20 Famous Pianos and the Stories Behind Them

What are some famous pianos? Think of Sam’s upright in Casablanca, John Lennon’s Steinway, Glenn Gould’s Steinway CD 318, Beethoven’s Broadwood, and the dazzling Heintzman Crystal Piano played at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Each became famous for a different reason:…