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MUSICAL
TIMES
PRESTO
Established
1884
Established
1881
THE AMERICAN MUSIC TRADE JOURNAIFHE NEW YO.'IK
P T T R T TP T T D D A P V
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706156A
CHICAGO, ILL., JANUARY, 1932
ASTOR
LENOX
A N D
Issued
.Monthly—
Fifteenth of Each Month
TILDEN FOUNDATIONS
PIANOS AND MANUFACTURERS
TODAY—YESTERDAY
Presto-Times has been requested on several occa-
sions to again give a list of piano manufacturing
concerns now operating together with a list of the
ones that have discontinued manufacturing within
some years past, say within the past ten years. The
names presented herewith, then, are classified as (1)
those that have gone entirely out of business and
the pianos they made practically discontinued; (2)
those that have united with other manufacturers and
the business continued under new management; (3)
concerns in liquidation, re-organization, or in the
hands of creditors' committee; (4) piano manufac-
turing concerns now operating.
GONE OUT O F BUSINESS; DISCONTINUED
MANUFACTURING
C. A. Ahlstrom Piano Co., Jamestown, N. Y.
Adler Mfg. Co. (Crown—Geo. P. Bent pianos),
Louisville, Ky.
H. C. Bay Co.," Bluffton, Ind.
Bell Bros. Co., Muncie, Ind.
Bellevue Piano Co., Bellevue, la.
Wm. Bourne & Son Piano Co., Boston, Mass.
Butler Piano Co., Cincinnati, Ohio.
M. W. Brown, Hampton, N. H.
Compton Price. Newark, O.
C. E. Byrne Piano Co., New York.
Clough & Warren Co., Detroit, Adrian, Mich.
A. B. Cameron Co., New York.
C. B. demons Co., Chicago.
Chase-Hackley Piano Co., Muskegon, Mich.
Francis Connor, New r York.
Cornish Company, Washington, N. J.
Deitemeier Piano Co., San Francisco.
De Rivas & Harris Co., New York.
E. S. Dobson & Co., New York.
Ebe Piano Co., New York.
Gram-Richsteig Co., Milwaukee, Wis.
Florey Bros., Washington, N. J.
Germain Piano Co., Bay City, Mich.
Gerts & Son Piano Co., Chicago.
Fuehr & Stemmer Co., Chicago.
Gibbons & Stone, Inc., Rochester, N. Y.
(Bought by Levis & Co., Rochester.)
Goldsmith Piano Co., Chicago.
(Includes Smith & Nixon Piano Co.)
Holzer Piano Mfg. Co., Chicago.
Holland Piano Co., Minneapolis, Minn.
Hughes & Son Piano Co., Foxcroft, Me.
A. Kaiser, Chicago.
Keller-Dunham Piano Co., Scranton, Pa.
Kellmer Piano Co., Hazelton, Pa.
Lawrence Kirchoff, New York.
Andrew Kohler & Co., New York.
Kraft, Bates & Spencer, New York.
Lawson Piano Co., New York.
Leies & Son, North Chicago.
Lindenberg Piano Co., Columbus, O.
Lockhart & Co., New York.
John Macfarland, New York.
Meister Piano Co., Monroeville, O.
Henry G. Johnson Piano Co., Bellevue, Iowa.
Henkleman Piano Co., New York.
Kelso & Co., New York.
Morrison-Waters Co., Cincinnati, O.
(Succeeded Knabe Bros. Co.)
Newman Bros. Co., Chicago.
Noble Piano Co., Detroit, Mich.
Oglesby Piano Co., Chester, Pa.
Price & Teeple Piano Co., Chicago.
Walter S. Pierce, San Francisco, Calif.
Raudenbush & Sons Piano Co., St. Paul, Minn.
Rauworth Grand Piano Co., Bellevue, la.
Rex Piano Co., Chicago.
Schaeffer Piano Co.
(Associated with Price & Teeple Piano Co.,
now controlled by W. F. Frederick Music Co.,
Uniontown, Pa.)
B. Scherpe & Sons Co., Chicago.
F. R. Schmidt & Son. Watertown, N. Y.
Schubert Piano Co., New York.
Stadie & Sons, New York.
Wm. Stehle, Baltimore, Md.
Sturz Bros., New York, N. Y.
Swan & Son. Freeport, 111.
Wagner-Steirlin Co., St. Louis, Mo.
Warde Piano Co., New York.
Warren Piano Co., Warren, Pa.
Werner Industries, Cincinnati, O.
Walter S. Pierce, San Francisco, Calif.
Osborn Piano Co. (Sam'l Osborn), Chicago, 111.
Overbrook Piano Co., Philadelphia, Pa.
Van Dyke Piano Co., Scrar.ton, Pa.
Weber & Sons, Chicago.
TAKEN OVER OR CONSOLIDATED AND
THE PRODUCT STILL KEPT ON
THE MARKET
Apollo Piano Co., Julius Bauer & Co., Schaff Bros.
Piano Co.
(With Wurlitzer Interests.)
Behning Piano Co., Bjur Bros., Davenport &
Treacy, Kroeger Piano Co., McPhail Piano Co.,
Stultz & Bauer, Weydig Piano Co.
(Joined with Kohler-Brambach Piano Co., Inc.)
Bush & Gerts Piano Co.
(With Haddorff Piano Co.)
Cable & Son.
(With Lester Piano Co.)
Chickering Brothers, J. & C. Fischer, Laffargue
& Co.
(With American Piano Co.)
Chas. Duerk Co., E. Gabler & Bro.
(With Jacob Doll & Sons.)
Foley & Williams.
(With E. P. Johnson Piano Co.)
Miessner Piano Co., Milwaukee, Wis.
(Discontinued manufacturing in May, 1928.)
Mansfield Piano Co.
(With Ricca & Son.)
Jewett Piano Co.
(With Aeolian Co.)
Smith, Barnes & Strohber Co., Henry F. Miller &
Sons Piano Co.
(With Continental Piano Co.)
Painter & Ewing Piano Co.
(With Cunningham Piano Co.)
Wegman Piano Co.
(With B. K. Settergren Co.)
Welte-Mignon Corporation, New York.
(Succeeded by Welte-Mignon Piano Corp.)
Weydig Piano Co.
(With Kohler Industries.)
Williams Piano & Organ Co., offices 20.3 N. W r abash
Ave., Chicago, 111.
CONCERNS IN LIQUIDATION, REORGANI-
ZATION. OR IN HANDS OF
CREDITORS' COMMITTEE
Bush & Lane Piano Co., Holland, Mich.
(Made assignment in October, 1931.)
Steger & Sons Piano Mfg. Co., Chicago, 111.
(Embracing Singer Piano Co., Reed & Sons
and Thompson Piano Co.)
(In liquidation.)
Jacob Doll & Sons, New York, N. Y.
(In liquidation.)
S. W. Miller Co., Sheboygau, Wis.
(In liquidation.)
Premier Grand Piano Co.
(In liquidation.)
William Tonk & Bro.. New York, N. Y.
(In liquidation.)
Biddle Piano Co., New York.
(In liquidation.)
S. G. Lindeman & Sons, Inc., New York, N. Y.
(In liquidation.)
Schmidt-Dauber Co., Inc., New York.
(Including Newby & Evans Piano Co.)
(In liquidation.)
PTANO MANUFACTURING CONCERNS N O W
OPERATING
Aeolian Co., New York, N. Y.
(Controls Aeolian Duo-Art, Geo. Steck & Co.,
Stroud, Weber, Wheelock, Mason & Hamlin
pianos.)
American Piano Corporation, New York.
(Embracing Chickering & Sons, Haines Bros.,
' ^ W m . K-nat e & Co.. J. & C. Fischer, Foster-
Armstrong, Laffargue & Co.)
Becker Bros.. New York.
F. T. Anderson & Sons. South Middkboro, Mass.
Hallet & Davis Piano Co., Inc.. 98-176 Southern
Blvd., New York.
(Reorganized in 1931.)
Baldwin Piano Co., Cincinnati, O.
(Embracing Hamilton Piano Co. Factory at
Chicago Heights.)
Continental Piano Co., Boston.
(Embracing Henry F. Miller & Son Piano Co.)
H. Bayer, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
Boardman & Gray, Albany, N. Y.
Bogart Piano Co., New York, N. Y.
Braumuller Piano Co., New York.
Brinkerhoff Piano Co., Chicago.
The Cable Co., Chicago, 111.
(With which is associated The Conover Piano
Co.)
The Hobart M. Cable Co., La Porte, Ind.
Cable-Nelson Piano Co., subsidiary of Everett
Piano Co., South Haven, Mich.
Everett Piano Co., South Haven, Mich.
Christmau Piano Co., New York, N. Y.
Cunningham Piano Co., Philadelphia, Pa.
Decker & Son, New York, N. Y.
Henry Detmer, Chicago, 111.
Estey Piano Co.; B. K. Settergren Co.
(Under one management), Bluffton, Ind.
Jesse French Mfg. Co., New Castle, Ind.
Grinnell Bros., Detroit, Mich.
Gulbransen Co., 3232 W. Chicago Ave., Chicago, 111.
Haddorff Piano Co.. Rockford, 111.
(Embracing Bush & Gerts Piano Co.)
W. P. Haines & Co., New York.
(Business resumed in 1931, under direction of
J. Linton Floyd-Jones.)
Hamilton Piano Co.. Chicago Heights, 111.
Hardman, Peck & Co., New York, N. Y.
C. J. Heppe & Son, Philadelphia, Pa.
(Made in New York City.)
Ivers & Pond Piano Co.. 258 Boylston St.. Bos-
ton, Mass.
Jacob Bros. Co., New York, N. Y.
Janssen Piano Co., New York, N. Y.
E. P. Johnson Piano Co., Elgin, 111.
James & Hohnstrom Piano Co., New York, N. Y.
W. W. Kimball Co.. Chicago, 111.
Kindler & Collins, New York, N. Y.
Krakauer Bros., New York, N. Y.
Kranich & Bach, 237 E. 23d St., New York.
Wm. Knabe & Co. Factory Baltimore, Md.
(American Piano Co.)
Kohler-Brambach Piano Co., New York, N. Y.
(Embracing these units: Francis Bacon Piano
Co., Behr Bros. & Co., Behning Piano Co.,
Davenport & Treacy, Hazelton Bros., Kohler
& Campbell, Milton Piano Co.
Kohler Industries, New York, N. Y.
Kreiter Manufacturing Co., Inc., Milwaukee, Wis.
C. Kurtzmann & Co., 526 Niagara St., Buffalo, N. Y.
The Lauter-Humana Co., Newark, N. J.
H. Lehr & Co., Easton. Pa.
E. Leins Piano Co., New York, N. Y.
Lester.-.Piano Co., 1306 Chestnut St., Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.
(Embraces A. B. Chase Co., Emerson Piano
Co., Lindemann & Sons Piano Co.)
Ludwig- & Co., New York, N. Y.
Mason & Hamlin Co. Factory Boston, Mass.
Offices 689 Fifth Ave., New York. (Aeolian Co.)
Mathushek Piano Mfg. Co., New York.
Paul G. Mehlin & Sons. Factory New York City.
Offices, West New York, N. J.
Henry F. Miller Piano Co.
(Controlled by Continental Piano Co., Boston.)
Schleicher & Sons, New York, N. Y.
B. Shoninger Piano Co., Inc., New York, N. Y.
Operators Piano Co., 715 N. Kedzie Ave., Chi-
cago, 111.
The Packard Piano Co., Ft. Wayne, Ind.
Poole Piano Co., Cambridge, Mass.
Pease Piano Co., New York, N. Y.
F. Radle Piano Co., New York, N. Y., 445 W.
31st St.
Ricca & Son, New York.
Adam Schaaf, Inc.. Chicago, III.
Schomacker Piano Co., Philadelphia, Pa.
J. P. Seeberg Corporation, 1510 Dayton St., Chi-
cago, 111.
Schiller Piano Co., Oregon, 111.
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