![]() Now housed at Heritage Junction Historic Park in Newhall. The last Kimball pianos were made in 1996. ![]() Kimball International is now a Fortune 500 Company with involvements in furniture making, contract cabinetry, electronic subassembly, and plastics. piano maker Krakauer in 1980, supplier companies such as the English maker of the Schwander and Langer actions, Herrburger Brooks and timber lands, lumber mills, and firms in other industries necessary to its operations. During the next two decades, Jasper, now called Kimball International, purchased the renowned Austrian piano manufacturer Bosendorfer in 1966, the highly respected U.S. Pierce piano atlas by Pierce, Bob., Bob Pierce, Larry Ashley, 1997, Larry E. In 1959, Kimball was sold to the Jasper Corporation, an Indiana plywood and cabinet manufacturer and piano production was moved to Indiana. Imported from Ithaca College Library MARC record. Miller Concert Grand 2002 Estonia 190 Satin Bubinga 2008 Schulze-Pohlman vertical 125 polished cherrywood peacock design 2008 Schoenhut minature grand (49 keys) 2008 Roland Digital Harpsichord, 2010 Roland FP-4 (88 key slab). when Kimball, a poor Maine farmboy who had set up a business selling real estate and insurance in Iowa, moved to Chicago and opened up a piano store, convinced that there was money to be made supplying goods to "Western" pioneers. Most techs use their Pierce Piano Atlas quite often. Kimball Piano Group (formerly Kimball Piano & Organ Co.) was founded in 1857 under the name of W.W. Kimball square pianos made by Hale used 40000 to 45000 Kimball squares made by Emerson used 14000 to 24000 (1870s). Kimball pianos in the 1870s used serial numbers in the 17000 to 24000 range.
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