Wyman WV108 Upright Piano Piano Name: Wyman Website: Wyman Model: WV108 Made in: China Parent Company: Wyman Piano Company Company Location: USA Height: 42.5″ History: Established by two former Baldwin executives Tim Laskey and George Benson in 2002. Although a relatively new company, all pianos are manufactured by Beijing Hsinghai Piano Group in China who… Read More
Piano Name: Pearl River Website: Pearl River Model: UP115 Made in: China Parent Company: Guangzhou Pearl River Piano Group Ltd. Company Location: China Height: 45″ History: Established in 1954, Guangzhou, China, Pearl River is the largest piano builder in the world surpassing 100,000 pianos annually. They have over 1.3 million square feet of manufacturing space… Read More
Piano Name: Kawai Website: Kawai Model: 506N Made in: Indonesia Parent Company: Kawai Musical Instruments Manufacturing Co. Ltd. Company Location: Japan Height: 44.5″ History: The Kawai company was formed in 1927 by a group consisting of Koichi Kawai and 7 of his colleagues. By 1955 Shigeru Kawai led the company into modern manufacturing and by… Read More
Knabe WV43 Upright Piano Piano Name: Knabe Website: Knabe Model: WV-43 Made in: Indonesia Parent Company: Samick Music Corp. Company Location: Korea Height: 42″ History: William Knabe established his company in Baltimore, USA in the year 1839 and remained in the family until 1906. As a well established name, the Knabe company became part of… Read More
One of the teams involved in some of the more detailed aspects of carvings within the church were employed recently by Bechstein in a spectacular million dollar piano reproduction… Read More
Abel is world reknown specializing in hammer manufacturing. It was my pleasure to meet Norbert Abel last month and have him shed some light on the piano hammer making… Read More
