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Acquired in 1907. Also manufactured brands Channing, Alden, Bellaire, Schubert and Leonard. Company manufactured and sold pianos under the names of M. Schulz, Walworth, Bradford, Irving, and Maynard, and Aria Divina. They were also sold under the names Brinkerhoff (from teens until about 1950s) and Schriver & Sons.
The terms "Allen wrench" (American English, though "Allen key" is also common in the US) and "Allen key" (British English) [3] are derived from the Allen brand name and refer to the generic product category "hex keys". W.G. Allen [4] filed the first related patent in 1909 for its recessed hex-driven safety screws, [5] a safety improvement over ...
The piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, through engagement of an action whose hammers strike strings. Modern pianos have a row of 88 black and white keys, tuned to a chromatic scale in equal temperament. A musician who specializes in piano is called a pianist.
A hex key (also, hex wrench, Allen key and Allen wrench or Inbus) is a simple driver for bolts or screws that have heads with internal hexagonal recesses (sockets). Hex keys are formed from a single piece of hard hexagonal steel rod, having blunt ends that fit snugly into similarly shaped screw sockets. The rods are bent to 90º, forming two ...
The Baldwin Piano Company is an American piano brand. It was once the largest US-based manufacturer of keyboard instruments and was known by the slogan, "America's Favorite Piano". Since 2001 [update] , it has been a subsidiary of Gibson Brands, Inc. [ 2 ] Baldwin ceased domestic production in December 2008, moving its piano manufacturing to China.
January 27, 1731. (1731-01-27) (aged 75) Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany. Occupation (s) Inventor, instrument maker. Known for. Inventor of the piano. Bartolomeo Cristofori di Francesco (Italian pronunciation: [bartoloˈmɛːo kriˈstɔːfori di franˈtʃesko]; May 4, 1655 – January 27, 1731) was an Italian maker of musical instruments ...
Aliquot stringing. Aliquot stringing is the use of extra unstruck strings in the piano for the purpose of enriching the tone. The aliquot stringing system was invented by Julius Blüthner in 1873. As currently implemented, the Blüthner aliquot stringing system uses a fourth string in each note of the top three octaves.
Steinway is a prominent piano company, [14] [15] known for its high quality [16] [17] and for inventions within the area of piano development. [18] [19] Steinway has been granted 139 patents in piano making, with the first in 1857. [20] The company's share of the high-end grand piano market consistently exceeds 80 percent. [21]