#Farrand piano company holland michigan tv

While the earlier B&L uprights were of relatively standard design and build quality some of the later instruments were literally works of art. Try to have a technician who is familiar with these thing look over your piano. These companies were gone by the early 1980s.

When I started out in the piano trade (in Michigan), there were still a couple of piano factories in Michigan on Lake Michigan: Gordon Laughead was in Holland, I think, and Everett (eventually purchased by Yamaha) in South Haven.

#Farrand piano company holland michigan tv

I wonder whether in 50 or 100 years, people will be wondering at the provenance of ancient TV sets that they happen upon. Pianos were the home entertainment centers of those days, like TVs are now. There were once hundreds of piano manufacturers in this country and many more stencil names.

Trying to learn the provenance of a particular old upright piano is difficult and I wonder what meaning such information might have. Bush, of Bush and Lane, was a founder of the Bush Conservatory of Music and was a industry lobbyist for requiring stencil brand pianos to show the builder's name as well as the dealer's. With regard to Bush and Lane, it was the name given in 1904 to the former Victor Piano and Organ Company. Jack Greenfield (an RPT) put a book together, published by the Piano Technicans Foundation in 1996, 'A History of Midwestern Piano Manufacturing.' This book may be of interest to you, to give an overview of this complex industry in its heyday.