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AEOLIAN - AMERICAN CORPORATION
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 1899, later incorporated as Winter & 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.
During 1960 the work force included only excellent craftsmen under the
direction of people who had been associated with these fine makes for many years,
thus preserving unimpaired the Individual and distinctive quality of each piano.
The affiliation of the various houses that formed this large and powerful
contributing force to the art of music, insures for each a wider scope for
musical activity in that each of its units was of the highest quality in its
grade, which had an extraordinary economy of production. This company's
purchasing power contributed immeasurably to the integrity and value of
instruments that were made in the various Divisions.
Aeolian Corporation, which in 1982 owned over 40 registered brand names, the
product of merger and acquisitions over the years combining 16 domestic piano
producers and the largest Canadian producer. Recognition was given by the trade
to the various Aeolian lines is the best evidence that Aeolian Corporation
pianos manufactured in Memphis and East Rochester, fulfilled every requirement
in grands, studios, spinets, consoles and players in a variety of scales and
finishes, as well as case designs. Aeolian produced not only the concert and
beginners piano, but also for the artist and leisure time musician.
Although production ceased in 1982 and 1985 there are countless thousands of
Aeolian -American pianos still in use throughout America, in private homes,
schools, churches and rental fleets. They were not always the most expensive,
and some of their designs were, while aesthetically correct they weren't always
perfect, but they did and still do provide students with the perfect entry level
piano ever made at a price that most families could afford.
A B Chase Gabler Musette
Aeolian Haines & Co. Normandie
Armstrong Haines Bros. Pease
Bent, George P. W.P. Haines Pianette
Bradbury Hallet & Davis Pianola
Brewster Hardman Poole
D.S. Buchanan Heller & Company Primatone
Cable Holmer & Sons Restonic
Cable, Fayette S. Holmes & Co. Rudolph
Carola Huntington Schneider,
Chickering Ivers & Pond Schiller
Conover - Cable Kingsbury George Steck
Cook, J.B. Knabe Sterling
Crown Kranich & Bach Sting
Duo - Art Laffargue Stratford
Elbridge Lindeman Stroud
Ellsworth Marshall & Wendell Stuyvesant
Emerson Mason & Hamlin Vose & Sons
Euphona Mehlin & Sons R. W. Waude,
J & C. Fischer Melodigrand Weber
Foster - Armstrong Mendelssohn Wheelock
Franklin Henry F. Miller Wellington
Aeolian distinguished itself as a piano maker, not merely an assembler.
Aeolian plants produced pianos that were quality assured, one of the reasons
that over the years many of the largest school systems in the United States have
selected their pianos exclusively. In addition, broadcasting stations, colleges,
music schools, universities, operas, and symphonies have countless Aeolian
pianos in constant service, this was during the time that American Institutions
purchased pianos on limited budgets, not as commercial endorsements or piano
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