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We are working on two new series for this blog and wanted to take this opportunity to bring you up to date on them. Hopefullly we will have at least one post up from them before Thanksgiving, but I have been dealing with some health issues these week and have not been as productive as I would have preferred.
One of our major focuses with this blog is on the subject of piano history. Many people know about the piano enough to know that if they press the right keys in the right order and the piano is in tune, it will make a pleasant-sounding melody. Some even know of Bartolomeo Cristofori, the Italian credited with building the first piano. A few might even know something about the person whose name is on their piano, especially if that name is one of the more prominent ones like Steinway. But how many know that, just because there is an American name on their piano, that piano may not have been manufactured in the United States? Do you know what company actually made your piano? We hope to address that question in the series “Who Made My Piano?”, a look at some of the old-line piano brands in the United States, what companies have made them through the years, and who makes them now.
Secondly, we are starting a series at least tentatively called “Highlights in Piano History”. This series will be in a timeline format with such dates as “1935- First spinet piano marketed by Wurlitzer”.
As you can see there is a lot of work going on. We appreciate our readers and want to provide you with plenty of quality content. If you have any comments or questions on anything you read here, please feel free to leave a comment or click the “Leave Us A Message” tab to send us an email.
Until later- Wishing you a Happy Thanksgiving a few days early,
David Miller
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