![]() ![]() ![]() Starting in the Northeast (Boston, upstate New York, and especially New York City), piano manufacturing moved westward through Pennsylvania, Indiana, and Ohio toward Chicago.Ībout the time it reached the mid-West (ca. ![]() The economy of the North had been strong throughout the conflict and continued to grow after it. This manufacturing explosion was scarcely interrupted by the Civil War. I do not list American brands out of patriotic preference but because in the hundred-year period between 1820-1920, there was an explosion of piano building in America, so many of those 12,500 brands were American. My technician (make sure you deal with a Registered Piano Technician, not a "tuner") told me that in the last 200 or so years, there have been about 12,500 different brands of pianos made (not model names - brands)!Īs you read my comments on piano brands, below, you will note that many are American. ![]()
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