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Pianos also have numbers other than serial numbers, such is the case with part or patent numbers.

Some pianos do not have serial numbers when they are manufactured as House Brands for large retailers.

Jesse French Numbers 1904-1-1-1-1-1-108000.

Baldwin Uprights and Verticals, Classic, Ellington, Franke, Howard before 1959, Kremlin, Manuelo, Modello, Monarch, St.

AEOLIAN - AMERICAN Est.

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New York, N.Y. The manufacturing facilities at East Rochester was comprised of a series of separate and individual factories planned so that manufacturing of the various instruments was carried on in an entirely individual and distinct manner, and by separate organizations, each under direction of men who had been associated with each respective make for many years, thus preserving, unimpaired, the individual and distinctive qualities of each piano.

Combined they made a great and powerful contribution to the art of music, for each of the great instruments they produced will continue providing magnificent music for generations to come.

Name brands built in East Rochester include Chickering Sons, J C Fischer, Wm.

Tremaine was a business genius who brought about the commercial exploitation of the piano player on a big scale.

Tremaines father had built a successful small business making and cranked table-top-sized mechanical organs, a very popular item in homes in the late 1800s.

He founded the Aeolian Organ and Music Company around 1888; the firm achieved considerable success with larger instruments and organs.

His son took over in 1899 and immediately set about to apply his own business acumen to the companys affairs.

With the newly perfected Pianola, he launched an aggressive advertising campaign which was entirely new to the stodgy piano business.

With four page color advertisements (almost unheard of in that day) published in the popular magazines, he literally stunned the piano industry with the message that here, indeed, was the answer to everyones prayer for music in the home Tremaine and Pianola built an enormous business empire over the next thirty years.

It wasnt long after the turn of the century that it was deemed desirable to miniaturize the clumsy Pianola and other similar, instruments so that they could be built directly inside the pianos.

Within a few short years, the push upplayers disappeared from the scene.

By this time everyone got into the act, and every piano maker so manufactured a player of some sort.

This name is known the world over in connection with musical instruments, It is applied to some of the various products of the Aeolian Company of New York which instruments of renown included the Duo Art Pianola, Weber Pianola, Steck Pianola, Wheelock Pianola, Stuyvesant Pianola, Steinway Duo Art Pianola, Stroud Pianola the Aeolian Orchestrelle and the Aeolian Pipe Organ; it also controlled the Meludee Music Co., Inc., and the Universal Music Co.

AEOLIAN-AMERICAN DIVISION OF AEOLIAN CORP.

Piano lines controlled and manufactured by this Division listed alphabetically include Chickering Sons, Wm.

Knabe Co., Mason Hamlin and Weber.

The manufacturing facilities at East Rochester consist of over 250,000 sq.

Of space situated on over eight acres of land occupied and devoted exclusively to the manufacture of only pianos since 1906.

Aeolian was one of Americas largest producers of grand pianos.

Instruments made by Aeolian American Division enjoyed an unquestioned reputation throughout the world AEOLIAN - AMERICAN CORPORATION - Founded 1932 Aeolian - American was the consolidation of the American Piano Company, Aeolian Piano Company formerly Winter Company, and Weber Piano Company.

Factories were located at East Rochester N.Y., Worchester Ma.

And Memphis, Tenn.

Aeolian probably produced more instruments than any other company in the U.S.

Founded as Heller Co.

In 1903, the firm became affiliated with Sears Roebuck and Co.

In 1941 William G.

Heller, Henry R. Heller and associates acquired the Sears interest and devoted the production to defense work during World War II.

Faith in the industry and the conviction that the piano industry needed someone to keep the venerable manufacturers in operation, Aeolian has acquired companies which would not otherwise have survived.

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