Piano People
1452 figures from Alfred Dolge’s Pianos and Their Makers (Vol. I, 1911; Vol. II, 1913) and Daniel Spillane’s History of the American Pianoforte (1890)
The inventors, builders, and founders behind the piano — as recorded by Alfred Dolge, the felt-maker who knew most of them personally, and by Daniel Spillane, the New York piano historian who chronicled the American trade a generation earlier. Both histories are in the public domain; these pages index every person they named, and people who appear in both books carry citations from each.
Biographical Profiles
545 people with a full biographical sketch in the source texts.
A. C. James
Adam Geib
fl. 1802-1830s
Adam Nickel
Adam Stodart
Adin Marshall Wright
born October 3, 1859
Adolf Ferdinand Rachals
Adolf Schiedmayer
d. 1890
Adolf Schiedmayer, Jr.
b. 1847
A. H. Gale
A. H. Hastings
b. 1834
A. J. Hipkins
Albert Behning
b. September 5, 1866
Albert Krell
born September 6, 1859
Albert Krell, Jr.
Albert Krell, Sr.
1833-1900
Albert S. Bond
Albert Staib
Albert Steinway
1840–1877
Albert Sweetser Bond
Albert T. Strauch
b. 1866
Albert Weber
b. July 8, 1828
Albert Weber, Jr.
born 1858
Alexander Steinert
Alfred Dolge
Alfred Dolge Engelhardt
b. December 14, 1881, Dolgeville, N.Y.
Alfred J. Newby
Alfred L. Peck
?-1911
A. L. Jewett
b. 1872
Alpheus Babcock
Americus Backers
A. M. McPhail
d. October 6, 1902
Andreas Georg Ritmüller
Andrew Brunet
active 1842–1856
Anton Rubinstein
Arthur Wessell
b. January 7, 1875
Auguste Wolff
d. February 1887
August Moritz Weickert
b. c. 1801, d. May 22, 1878
Babcock
Backers (Becker)
Balthasar Schiedmayer
1711–1781
Bartolomeo Christofori
died 1731
Bartolomo Christofori
Beethoven
Ben H. Janssen
b. August 31, 1862
Benjamin Collins
Benjamin Crehore
Benjamin Starr
died 1903
Bernhard Shoninger
?–1910
Bismarck
Bosert
Braton S. Chase
Broadwood
Brown
Burckhardt Tschudi (Burkat Shudi)
1702-1773
Calvin Whitney
b. September 25, 1846
Camille Pleyel
b. 1792
Carl André
Carl Bechstein
1826-06-01–1908
Carle Cotter Conway
Carl E. Peck
b. 1864
Carl J. Pfeiffer
Carl Nicolai Schröder
Carl Rönisch
1814–1893-07-21
Carl Rudolf Ibach
d. April 25, 1863
Carl Scheel
C. C. Briggs
C. C. Colby
C. Frank Chickering
January 20, 1827–March 25, 1891
C. F. Theodore Steinway
born c. 1825 (age 14 in 1839); died March 26, 1889, Brunswick, Germany
C. F. Tretbar
Charles A. Ericsson
b. 1859
Charles A. Haddorff
born February 2, 1864
Charles A. Kuster
Charles Albrecht
active before 1789 - c.1824/25
Charles A. Sterling
Charles B. Lawson
b. February 6, 1855
Charles Borst
Charles H. Steinway
born June 3, 1857
Charles Jacob
Charles Kohler
b. 1868
Charles Kriegelstein
b. December 16, 1839
Charles Mehlin
b. October 23, 1873
Charles M. Stieff
b. July 19, 1805
Charles N. Post
Charles Pfriemer
1842–1908
Charles Raymond Wood
Charles S. Fischer
Charles S. Sackmeister
Charles Steinway
born January 1, 1829; died March 31, 1865 (age 36)
Charles Taws
arrived New York 1785 (also given 1786); active Philadelphia until c.1833
Charles Watts
Chopin
Christian Kurtzmann
d. 1886
Christian Kurtzmann, Jr.
b. 1886
Christoph Schröter
Clara E. Thoms
Clayton A. Grinnell
Clements Claus
Clifford C. Chickering
Conrad Narvesen
Cornelius Bogart
Cristofori
Curtis N. Kimball
Cyrus F. Jones
Daniel Francis Treacy
born 1846; died null
Daniel Walker
active past 1830; patented 1838; firm dissolved 1841
David Decker
David H. Schmidt
David Krakauer
d. 1900
Dowling
Dr. Alexander Anderson
fl. 1792
Dr. Hopkinson
Dr. Krause
Dr. Oscar Paul
Dubois
Dubois
Dwight H. Baldwin
Earle Brewster Bartlett
b. 1858
Earle Edward Conway
Ebenezer R. Currier
E. Chapuis
Edgar B. Jones
born 1880
Edgar C. Smith
b. October 24, 1860
Edmund Gram
born 1863
Edmund Schnabel
b. November 14, 1850
Eduard Ferdinand Rachals
Edward H. Story
Edward H. Uhl
Edward H. White
b. April 5, 1855; d. September 16, 1899, age 44
Edward Lyman Bill
Edward M. Burns
Edward R. Perkins
Edwin Nelson Kimball, Jr.
Edwin Stapleton Conway
Edwin S. Votey
Edwin W. Schurz
Emmons Hamlin
Ernest Gabler
?–1883
Ernest G. Meikle
b. November 25, 1865
Ernest J. Knabe, Jr.
b. July 7, 1869
Ernest Knabe
d. April 16, 1894
Ernest Urchs
Ernst Kaps
Ernst Philip Rosenkrantz
b. July 10, 1773; d. 1828
E. S. Votey
Farny R. Wurlitzer
Fayette Shepard Cable
b. March 18, 1855
F. C. Lighte
d. 1879
Fernando A. Wessell
b. January 5, 1877
F. Frickinger
F. L. Dusinberre
b. 1846
Fourneaux
Francis Bacon
Francis Conner
Francis Connor
born June 19, 1843; died null
Francis Haines
Francis Putnam Burns
b. February 6, 1807
Francis Shaw
active c.1804-1806+
Frank A. Lee
Frank B. Long
b. 1863
Frank C. Decker
born 1857; died null
Frank C. Decker, Jr.
born 1889; died null
Frank C. White
Franz Liszt
Frederick Engelhardt
Frederick George Jones
born March 19, 1847, died March 13, 1913
Frederick Kranich
Frederick Mathushek
b. June 9, 1814; d. November 9, 1891
Frederick Reidemeister
b. November 30, 1865
Frederick the Great
Frederick T. Steinway
b. February 9, 1860
Fred H. Abendschein
Fred Mathushek
Fred Wilby Chickering
b. March 1, 1865
Fred W. Lohr
b. 1854
Freeborn Garrettson Smith
Friedrich Ehrbar
1827–1905
F. W. Frickinger
Gardner
G. B. Kelly
Geoffrey Stafford
transported to Massachusetts c.1691
George A. Steinway
b. June 4, 1865
George Bacon
d. 1856
George B. Durkee
George Chartres
fl. 1804-1815
George E. Blake
George F. Abendschein
George H. Bent
b. October 11, 1878
George H. Chickering
April 18, 1830–November 17, 1896
George H. Conover
b. June 20, 1844
George H. Davis
d. December 1, 1879
George H. Jones
born 1875
George H. Moessinger
George J. Dowling
born 1864
George L. Cheney
d. 1901
George M. Guild
George Payne Bent
b. June 16, 1854
George Steck
b. July 19, 1829; d. March 31, 1897
George Ulshoefer
George W. Kellmer
George W. Seaverns
G. H. Hulskamp
Gilbert V. Briggs
1839-1851
Giovanni Spinnetti
Gordon
Gottfried Silbermann
1683–1756
Gottlieb Heller
b. 1868
Guido of Arezzo
first part of the 11th century
Gustav Behning
b. 1868
Hackenheimer
Haddorff
Hampton L. Story
b. 1835-06-17
Hans Ruckers
Hans von Bülow
Harley Hosford
Harry B. Tremaine
b. 1866
Harry E. Freund
Harry Gennett
H. D. Cable
b. 1849, Walton, N.Y.; d. March 2, 1899
Heinrich Engelhardt Steinweg
Helmuth Kranich
1833-1902
Henri Herz
b. January 6, 1806 – d. January 5, 1888
Henri Pape
Henry Behning
b. November 3, 1832; d. June 10, 1905
Henry Behning, Jr.
Henry Behr
b. 1848
Henry C. Watson
November 4, 1818 – December 4, 1875
Henry Engelhardt Steinweg (Henry E. Steinway)
born February 5, 1797, Wolfshagen, Germany; died February 7, 1871 (age 74)
Henry F. Miller
b. September 25, 1825
Henry Fowler Broadwood
d. 1893, age 82
Henry Gennett
Henry Hartye
Henry Hazelton
b. 1816
Henry Hotopp
born 1837
Henry Kirk White
d. January 13, 1907
Henry Kroeger
Henry Lindeman
b. August 3, 1838
Henry L. Mason
Henry Lowell Mason
Henry Mason
Henry Nickel
b. 1879
Henry Steinway, Jr.
1831–1865
Henry Ziegler
Herman F. Keidel
d. February 17, 1889 (aged 42)
Hermann Schiedmayer
d. 1891
Herman Zedwitz
Hiram Herrick
Hobart M. Cable
d. December 1909
Hobart M. Cable, Jr.
b. December 15, 1881
Horace Edgar French
Horace Waters
d. 1893
Horace Waters, Jr.
Horatio Worcester
Howard B. Morenus
Howard E. Wurlitzer
b. September 5, 1871
Howard White
b. September 9, 1856; d. December 9, 1897, age 41
H. Paul Mehlin
b. 1864
Hugh Hardman
b. 1815
Hugo Sohmer
b. 1846
H. W. Gray
b. June 3, 1830, Ephrata, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
H. W. Smith
b. 1830
I. D. Weickert
1751-1816
Ignace Paderewski
Ignace Pleyel
1757-1831
Ignatz Bösendorfer
b. 1795
Ira L. Grinnell
Irving E. Devereaux
Isaac T. Packard
Isaac Woodward
born June 10, 1810, Roxbury, N.H.; died March 10, 1883, Brookline, Mass.
Jacob Becker
Jacob Christy
Jacob Doll
born 1849; died null
Jacob Estey
b. September 30, 1814
Jacob Gross
b. July 26, 1819
Jacob Hackenheimer
born June 26, 1871
Jacob Kirchmann (Kirkman)
died 1778
Jacques Bach
1833-1894
J. A. Gutwaldt
James Abbott
joined trade 1833
James A. Gray
1815–December 11, 1889
James B. Woodford
James H. Butler
born 1867
James Henry Shudi Broadwood
d. February 8, 1911
James H. Grovesteen
James H. White
b. September 26, 1847
James Shudi Broadwood
James Stewart
James Whiting Vose
b. October 21, 1818
J. C. L. Isermann
1813-1898
Jean Denis Antoine Bord
b. 1814 – d. March 4, 1888
Jean Georges Kriegelstein
b. 1801 – d. November 20, 1865
Jean Schwander
b. 1812 – d. 1882
Jesse French, Jr.
Jesse French, Sr.
J. Frank Conover
b. 1843
J. G. Irmler
d. 1857-12-10
J. H. Paine ("Miser" Paine)
Johann Andreas Stein
1728–1792
Johann Andreas Streicher
1761–1833
Johann Baptist Streicher
1796–1871
Johann Christian Bach
Johann Christian Gottlieb Irmler
Johann David Schiedmayer
d. 1806
Johannes Adolf Ibach
Johannes Zumpe
Johann Friedrich Schröder
b. 1785 – d. 1852
Johann Heinrich Pape
b. July 1, 1789 – d. February 2, 1875
Johann Lorenz Schiedmayer
Johann Sebastian Bach
John Abbott
began 1832; still living as of writing (1890)
John Ammon
John Anderson
John A. Weser
born 1853
John B. Dunham
John Behrent
active 1775
John Boulton Simpson
John Brinsmead
d. March 17, 1908 (aged 92)
John Broadwood
1732-1812
John Buttikofer
b. Switzerland; immigrated 1839
John Calvin Campbell
1864-1908
John C. Freund
John Cutts Smith
patented November 14, 1838
John Davenport
b. August 1840
John Dwight
John Evans
b. 1846
John Firth
1789-1864
John Frederick Schmidt
1823–1906-09-26
John Geib
d. before 1809
John Geib, Sr.
patented 1786
John Gerts
b. 1845 (Germany) - d. May 14, 1913
John Hardman
John Harper
John Henry Schomacker (Johann Heinrich Schumacher)
January 1, 1800–January 16, 1875
John Hopkinson
d. April 4, 1886
John Isaac Hawkins
John Jacob Astor
b. 1763
John Jacob Decker
John Jardine
John J. Wise
John Kearsing
arrived 1802
John Ludwig
b. 1858
John MacKay
d. 1841 (lost at sea)
John McTammany
John Montgomery
fl. 1800
John Osborn
John Pethick
John Travis Quigg
John U. Fischer
John V. Steger
b. c. 1850s (about 60 years old at time of writing)
Jonas Chickering
April 5, 1798–December 8, 1853
Josef Herrburger
b. 1832
Josef Hofmann
Josef Kuder
Joseph Adam Fleming
Joseph Corré
fl. 1783-1800s
Joseph Hiskey
Joseph Newman
Joseph Oktavec
b. 1875
Joseph P. Hale
Josiah B. Chickering
J. Piffaut
J. R. Mason
b. 1847
J. Sylvanus McLean
Julius Bauer
d. 1884 (founded firm 1857)
Julius Blüthner
1824-03-11–1910
Julius Estey
d. March 7, 1902, age 57
Julius Schiedmayer
d. 1878-01
Julius Winter
born 1856
Justinian Morse
Justus Percival Seeburg
born April 20, 1871
Karl Michael Schröder
b. 1828 – d. May 5, 1889
Laverne M. Ide
b. 1860
Lemuel Gilbert
Leopold Peck
1842-1904
Levi K. Fuller
d. October 10, 1896, age 55
L. L. Doud
Louis Ernst
d. 1885
Louis Fissore
Louis Schöne
Louis S. Kurtzmann
b. 1860
Love
with Torp & Love, 1835-1838
Lowell Mason
Lucien Wulsin
b. 1845, Louisiana
Ludwig Bösendorfer
Ludwig Hupfeld
Ludwig van Beethoven
Luigi Ricca
born June 21, 1853
Luther Phileo
made pianos from 1841; patent 1846
Lycus D. Perry
b. 1863
Marius
Martin Miller
Mathias Ferdinand Rachals
1801-06-03–1866-09-06
Mathias Schulz
1842-1899
Max Richtsteig
born 1869
Max Schiedmayer
Melville Clark
Meyer
Michael A. Bietepage
Michael Miller
began business after 1840; patent 1851
Morgan Davis
fl. 1799-1837
Moritz Poehlmann
1823-1902
Moriz Rosenthal
Morris Steinert
Mozart
Muzio Clementi
Myron A. Decker
b. January 2, 1823; d. 1901
Nahum Stetson
b. December 5, 1856
Nannette Stein-Streicher
Nannette Streicher, geb. Stein
d. January 1833
Napoleon J. Haines
b. 1824, d. April 19, 1900
Orrin L. Fox
Oscar L. Kindler
b. 1875
Oswald Irmler
d. 1905-10-30
Otto Frederick Mehlin
b. 1880
Otto Schulz
Otto Weickert
Otto Wessell
1845–1899-05-25
Otto Wissner
b. 1853
Patrick Joseph Healy (P. J. Healy)
born March 17, 1840 – died April 5, 1905
Paul B. Klugh
b. 1878
Paul de Wit
born January 4, 1852
Paul G. Mehlin
b. 1837
Paul M. Zeidler
b. 1862
Paul Perzina
Paul Schiedmayer
d. 1891
Paul von Janko
b. June 2, 1856
Peter A. von Hagen
active c.1792-1808
Peter D. Strauch
b. 1835
Peter Duffy
Peter Kellmer
Peter Paracelus Puff
Peter Provost
active 1835-1837 and after
Peter Welin
P. H. Powers
Pierre Erard
d. 1855
Pirsson
P. J. Gildemeester
Pleyel (schoolmaster, father of Ignace Pleyel)
P. Unger
joined 1838
Rafael Joseffy
Reinagle
Richard Bury
Richard W. Gertz
Richard Wilhelm Gertz
b. April 21, 1865
Robert C. Kammerer
b. September 12, 1856
Robert Kammerer
Robert Nunns
Robert Stodart
Robert Wornum
Rubinstein
Rudolf Ibach
d. July 31, 1892 (aged 49)
Rudolf Kreter
Rudolph Gross
Rudolph H. Wurlitzer
b. December 30
Rudolph Wurlitzer
Rufus W. Blake
R. W. Pain
Samuel G. Lindeman
b. March 24, 1869
Samuel Merritt Comstock
d. January 18, 1878
Samuel T. White
S. B. Bond
b. October 17, 1833; d. July 20, 1907
Schröter
Sebastian Erard
1752-1831
S. E. Clark
Siegfried Hansing
Silbermann
Simon Krakauer
1816-1905
Spencer B. Driggs
Stein
Stephen Brambach
Sylvanus B. Pond
c. 1792-1871
Sylvester Tower
Thaddeus Firth
Theodore A. Heintzmann
1817–1899
Theodore Cassebeer
b. September 9, 1879
Theodore E. Steinway
b. October 16, 1883
Theodore J. Kraft
Theodore Marschall
Theodore P. Brown
Theodor Steinweg
Thomas Appleton
wrote statement in 1871; sketch published 1887
Thomas C. Loud
b. July 12, 1812
Thomas Dodds
Thomas E. Chickering
d. February 14, 1871
Thomas Gibson
fl. 1799-1839
Thomas Loud
Thomas Loud, Jr.
Thomas Shriver
b. September 2, 1789
Timothy Gilbert
Torakusu Yamaha
Torp
active 1835 and after
Trayser
Tremaine
Vaucanson
Wallace Wiley Chickering
Walter Ibach
Walter Lane
b. 1868
Walter Ludwig Engelhardt
b. 1884, New York
Welcker von Gontershausen
White
Wilke
Willard Naremore Van Matre
born 1851
Willard N. Van Matre, Jr.
born 1890
William Allen
William B. Bradbury
?–1867
William Bent
active 1798-1809
William Boardman
d. January 5, 1881 (age 81)
William Bourne
d. 1885
William B. Tremaine
1840-1907
William Challen
William Dalliba Dutton
b. 1847
William D. Lazelle
William D. Parker
William E. Strauch
b. 1867
William E. Wheelock
William F. Braun
born 1856
William Hall
?-1873
William H. Beach
born April 4, 1851
William H. Bush
1829-1901
William H. Ivers
William H. Poole
born December 21, 1864
William J. Behr
b. January 5, 1872
William Knabe
1803–1864
William Knabe, III
b. March 23, 1871
William Knabe (son)
d. January 1889 (age 48)
William L. Bush
William Lincoln Bush
b. 1861
William Lindeman
1795–December 24, 1875
William Max Bauer
William M. Bauer
William M. Goodrich
William M. Thoms
William Nunns
William Otto Wissner
b. 1882
William P. Collins
b. 1877
William P. Emerson
d. 1871
William R. Steinway
b. December 20, 1881
William Southwell
William Steinway
1835–1896
William Strich
b. 1863
William Wallace Kimball
b. 1828, d. December 15, 1904
W. Lufkin
Wm. D. Parker
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
W. R. Furgang
Mentioned in the Text
907 further people the sources name in passing.
A. A. Grinnell
A. A. Van Buren
A. B. Chase
d. 1877
A. Blondel
Abner Bourne
Abner Chickering
A. Cordes
Adam Bent
active 1798-1809
Adolph Guger
A. E. Johnson
A. F. Stern
A. G. Lyon
A. H. Foucar
A. H. Hume
A. J. Goodrich
A. J. Hobart
A. J. Pfeiffer
Albert Methfessel
Alessandro Trasunti
Alexander Bretschneider
Alexander Krell
d. 1895
Alexander Wilson
emigrated to Philadelphia 1795
Alfred D. Engelhardt
Alfred Pirsson
Alfred Reisenauer
Allen
Alvin Kranich (brother of Helmuth Kranich)
Alvin Kranich (son of Helmuth Kranich)
Amati
Amelia Lewis-Freund
d. 1887
A.M. Fischer
A. M. Wheelock
Andreas Silbermann
Andrew Orlander
Andrew Ruckers
Annette Essipoff
Antoine Bord
Anton Seidl
A. P. Roth
Archibald W. Comstock
A. Richter
Armstrong
Arthur Nikisch
Arthur S. Woodward
Aspinwall
fl. 1795
Augustus Baus
A. W. Ladd
Bach
Backers
Bain
Bancroft
Barry Gray
Bausch
B.B. Crew
B. B. Leeds
Behrend
Behrent
Berry
fl. 1790s
Betts
B. F. Bush
Bishop
B. J. Lang
Boernhoeft
Bösendorfer
Bothner
active from 1861
Brodmann
Brooks
Bülow
Burckhardt Tschudi
Burgers
Busoni
C. A. Ahlstrom
C. A. Daniell
C. A. Gerold
C. Albert Jacob
Callie Lumsden (Mrs. Jesse French)
Camille Saint-Saëns
Campbell
Campbell (of Campbell and Gault)
Carl Brambach
Carl Fischer
Carl Hecker
Carl J. Pfeffer
Carl Mand
Carl Schröder
Carl Schurz
Cavallo
C. B. Harger
C. Brambach
C. C. Briggs
C. C. Briggs, Jr.
C. C. Colby, junior
C. C. Conway
C. Challen
C. C. Hudson
C. E. Friederici
C. F. Albrecht
C. F. L. Albrecht
C. G. Cheney
Chambers
Chandler W. Smith
Chapuis
Charles Albrecht
Charles Avery Welles
Charles Avery Wells
Charles Carmeyer
began 1837, known past 1850
Charles Doll
Charles Fahr
Charles Gehrling
Charles G. Rosenberg
Charles H. Bourne
Charles H. Eddy
Charles H. Rose
Charles H. Wagener
Charles J. Gross
Charles Keidel
Charles L. Burchard
Charles Lukey Collard
Charles McDonnell
Charles Parsons
Charles Pfreimer
Charles Stieff
Chas. M. Tremaine
Chas. R. Putnam
C. H. Challen
C.H. Conway
Chelius
C. H. Hackley
Chickering
Chickering
Christian F. L. Albrecht
1825-1842
Christian W. Schmidt
Christofori
Christofori (Bartolomeo Cristofori)
Christopher
C. H. W. Foster
C. J. Gebauhr
C. J. Nyer
C. J. Scheiman
C. J. Whitney
Clarence Eddy
Clarence Wulsin
Clement Claus
Clementi
Cludsam
C. Mollenhauer
C. M. Richards
C. N. Kimball
Coleman
Colonel Thomas B. Thorp
Cornelius Matthews
Count Erdoedy
Cramer
C. R. Elias
C. Rogers
Crotone
C. T. Barnhorn
Ctesibius of Alexandria
2nd century B.C.
Currier
C. Weidig
C. W. Isermann
d. 1900
C. W. Patzschke
Daniel B. Newhall
Daniel Faber
Daniel Gray
Daniel Krakauer
Daniel Morris
Danquard
David C. Cook
David Smith
David Walhaupter
David Wolhaupter
D. Benson
active 1842 onward
De Pachman
de Pachmann
de Wit
D. H. Baldwin
d. 1899
Dickinson
D. J. Van Winkle
fl. 1849
Dolmetsch
Doretta Steinway-Ziegler
Dorman
Downe
Dr. Ed. F. Rimbault
Dr. Ginsberg
Dr. Gray
Dr. John Savage
Dr. Otto Neitzel
D. R. Stanford
Dr. T. T. Smiley
Dr. Walter Niemann
Dr. William Mason
Duchess of Villeroy
Duke of Brunswick
Dunham
Duplessix
fl. 1786
Dussek
Dwight Gibbons
started 1850; patent 1855
E. Davis
Ed. Broomfield, Jr.
active 1745
Edgar A. Poe
Edgar Brinsmead
Edgar William Brinsmead
d. November 18, 1907
Eduard Werner
Edward Behr
Edward Jardine
Edward Quincy Norton
Edward Riley
Edward S. Payson
Edward S Rayner
Edwin B. Pfau
Edwin C. Miller
Edwin Fobes
E. E. Conway
E. G. Schleicher
E.H. Grinnell
Ehrhardt (later Erard)
E. I. Ricca
Elijah Bullard
Emanuel Bach
Emil Gabler
Emil Hurtzig
Emil Irmler
Emil Streicher
E. N. Kimball
E. N. Scherr
E. O. Vidand
d. 1888
E. P. Mason
E. Q. Norton
Erard
Erard
Ernest J. Knabe, Sr.
d. March 1894
Ernst Rosenkrantz
E. S. Conway
E. Stroud
E. W. Smith
Fabrici
Farini
Farney Wurlitzer
Father Wood
Father Zanetti
Fayette S. Cable
F. Bergner
F. B. Hallet
F.B.T. Hollenberg
F. C. Billings
F. Dörner
Felix Mendelssohn
Ferdinand Thürmer
Fernando Wessell
Fetis
F. Feiling
F. G. Smith
Fischer
Fischer
Fissore
F. L. Young
Foucaud
F. P. Burns
Francis Bonneau
Francis Burns
Francis Gruss
active from 1833
Francis Melville
Frank A. Abbott
Frank Haines
Frank J. Conover
Frank L. Wing
Frank Roosevelt
Frank Van der Stucken
Franz Rummel
Franz Schmidt
Fred Blume
Fred C. Kurtzmann
Fred Dietz
Frederic Chopin
Frédéric Chopin
Frederici
Frederici
Frederick Doerner
Frederick Doll
Frederick Hazelton
Frederick P. Stieff
Frederick Rose
Frederick Starr
started 1850
Freneau
F. R. Goolman
Friederici
1745 (date of his action)
Friedrich Ehrbar (the younger)
Friedrich Schiller
Friedrich Wilhelm Rosenkrantz
Fritz
Fritz Weickert
F. R. Wolfinger
F. S. Cable
F. S. Shaw
Fuchs
F. W. Collard
F. W. Hale
F. W. Patzschke
Gabrilowitsch
Garret Conover
Gault
G. Barmore
active from 1832
G. Cook
G. D. Mackay
Geib
Gemünder
Geo. H. Moessinger
George B. Armstrong
George B. Kelly
George Butler
George Cartwright
active 1809-1813
George C. Foster
George C. Gordon
George Chickering
George Daniel Rose
George Doll
George D. Rose
George Dutton
George Frideric Handel
George Gomph
George Hewes
George Jardine
active past 1840
George Kearsing
fl. 1831-1868+
George L. Darracott
George L. Eaton
George Matzka
George Nembach
George P. Morris
George P. Reed
George Reichman
Georges Kriegelstein
George Thomas Rose
George T. McLaughlin
George W. Armstrong, Jr.
George Whyte
George W. Weser
Georg Steck
Gerhard Adam
Gerlach (of Schmidt & Company)
Geroek
Geronimo
Geronimo of Bologna
G. F. Sievers
G. Heyl
Gilbert
Gilbert
Gilfert
Gillis R. Lindeman
Giuseppe Zarlino
G. King
G. Kingley
Glen
active 1840
G. L. Nagel
G. M. Guild
Gotthold Carlberg
G. Perau
Green
active 1798
Gretschel
Grow
Grubb
Guarnerius
Guido Hecker
Guilmant
Gustav Adolph Buschmann
Gustav Anderson
Gustave Lyon
Gustavus Hesselins
active 1742
Gustavus Hessilens
Gutwaldt
G. W. Severns
Hallet
Halsey Hazelton
Hancock
Handel
Handel Pond
Hans Adam Wurlitzer
1732-1795 (active)
Harold Bauer
Harper
Harry L. Spencer
Harvey S. Crane
Harvey W. Wiley
Haydn
Haydn (Joseph Haydn)
Hayman Levy
Haywood
H. Barmore
active from 1832
H. B. Chelius
H. Billinghurst
H. C. Wilcox
Hebenstreit
Heinrich Gretschel
Heinrich Ludolf Mack
Helfferich
Helmholtz
Helmuth Kranich, Jr.
Henri L. Stuart
Henry Ackley
Henry Allen
Henry A. Mott
Henry C. Schomacker
b. May 1840
Henry Dreher
Henry Edward Krehbiel
Henry Engelhardt Steinway, Sr.
Henry F. Miller, Jr.
Henry Gaehle
Henry Hartje
Henry Herz
Henry Ketten
Henry Kroeger, Jr.
Henry Kuster
Henry Labouchere
Henry Nickel, Jr.
Henry Steinway (the younger)
Henry Steinweg
Henry W. T. Steinway
b. January 24, 1856
Herman D. Cable
d. winter of 1900
Hermann Feurich
Hermann Seyffarth
Hermann Wagner
Herter
Herz
Hewitt
H. F. Ricca
Hildebrand
Hintz
Hinzen
Hipkins
Hiskey
H. J. Newton
H. L. Howe
H. Mallebre
H.O. Kearsing
fl. 1831
Holmstrom
Horace Greeley
Howard Wurlitzer
Howe
Hoxa
H. Pfister
H. R. Moore
H. Thielberg
Hubert O. Fox
b. August 29, 1871
Hugh McCulloch
Hugh Reinagle
d. 1820
Hulett
H. W. Bond
I. B. Woodford
I. G. Vogel
I. H. Guest
I. J. Paderewski
I. M. Kuhns
Ingersoll Lockwood
I. P. Lindner
Irving B. Vose
born 1850
Isaac Clark
Isaac Hawkins
Isaac N. Camp
Jacob Doll, Jr.
Jacob Goll
Jacob Gray Estey
Jacquard
Jacques Bach Schlosser
J. A. Gray
James Alois Gutwaldt
arrived 1811
James Broadwood
James B. Taws
appears 1829
James C. Miller
James Cumston
James F. Hall
James Hopkinson
James Julian
active 1785
James Lick
James McCarroll
James Pirsson
James S. Starr
Jas. E. Miller
J.B. Byrne
J. C. Barnes
Jean Baptiste Erard
d. 1826
Jeff Davis Bill
Jesse Davis
J. George Laffargue
d. 1906
J. G. Gaveau
J. G. Klem
J. Goodwin
J. Gramer
J. Harry Estey
J. H. Boernhoeft
J. H. Gibson
J. H. Hidley
J. H. White
J. J. Ryan
J. J. Watson
J. McDonald
J. Munroe
Jno P Bent
Johann Daniel Silbermann
d. May 6, 1766
Johannes Brahms
Johann Friedrich Silbermann
d. March 8, 1817
Johann Schmidt
John Arthur
John Brown
John Church
John Clark
1743 (active)
John F. Jacob
d. 1885
John F. Nunns
John French
John Geib, Jr.
fl. 1815-1821
John Gerts, Jr.
John Haines
John Hazelton
John H. Quackenbush
John K. Paine
John Landreth
John Loud
John Mayell
John Paff
John P. Brown
John Ruck
John Ruckers
John Schröder
John S. Dwight
Johnston Norman
John Wanamaker
John W. Jordan
John W. Mason
John W. Watson
Jonas M. Weblin
Joseffy
Josef Herrburger, Jr.
Josef Lhevinne
Joseph Fox
active from 1833
Joseph G. Kuntze
Joseph Haydn
Joseph Loud
Joseph Smith
Joseph Waites
fl. 1804
Joseph Warren
J. P. Cole
J. P. Hale
J. Swenson
J. T. Stoddard
Julien W. Vose
born 1859
Julius Feurich
Julius Gercke
Julius Krakauer
Justus Diehl
J. W. Crook
J. W. Crooks
Kalkbrenner
Katherine Goodson
Keeley
Keller
Kelly
Kenneth M. Bradley
Kirkman
Klem
Klepfar
Klix
Knut Egberg
Koth
Kriegelstein
Kunz
Lafayette Louis
patent 1863
Lambert
Landreth
Leschetitzky
Levi Dederer
active from 1836
Lewis Babcock
Lewis S. Clement
Lewis Taws
appears 1837
Lexow
Lindeman
Linden
L. Isermann
L. Matt
Lorenz Schiedmayer
Loud
Louden
Louis Engel
Louis P. Bach
Ludolf Isermann
Luman B. Wing
d. 1873
L. W. Hawley
Lyon
Lyon
Mackay
Maey
Major Carew
Mallet
active 1805
M. Andes
Marc A. Blumenberg
Marchese Scipione Maffei
Marguerite St. Leon Loud
Mark Healy
Martinus Sieveking
Mary F. Miller
Mary Garden
Mason J. Mathews
Massart
Master Holden
Master Wirschel
Mathushek
Matthew Lacroix
Matthias Zimmerman
d. by 1737
Max Blüthner
Max Weickert
Mechtler
fl. 1786
Merckel
Merrill K. Waters
Merritt Gally
M. Fetis
Michael Paff
Mickley
Milo J. Chase
Mittauer
d. St. Louis (date not stated)
Mme. Fannie Bloomfield-Zeisler
Mme. Julie Rivé King
Mme. Madaline Schiller
Mola
Morrison
active 1811
Moscheles
Moser
Moses Coborn
Mr. Baumeister
Mr. Claus
Mr. Drexel
Mr. Gray (of Albany)
Mr. Hammond
arrived 1791
Mr. Hazelton
Mr. Hulett
Mr. Karr
Mr. Klix
Mr. Marquand
Mr. Martin
Mr. Pierce
Mrs. O. L. Fox
Mr. Tooker
Mr. Yarnold
M. Schwarz
Naish
Nannette Stein
Nannette Streicher
Nathaniel Chickering
Nathaniel W. Tileston
N. Christendel
Neff
Neuhaus
Nishikawa
N. J. Haines, Jr.
N. M. Lowe
Nothnagel
N. P. Willis
N. R. Luther
O. A. Kimball
Obed Coleman
O. Lestina
Ole Syverson
Oliver Ditson
Oothout
Oscar Laffert
Oscar Paul
Oskar Schröder
Ossip Gabrilowitsch
Otto Börs
Otto Doll
Otto Floersheim
Otto Irmler
d. 1861-10-30
Otto Irmler (younger)
Otto Kroeger
Otto R. Wissner
b. 1885
Ovide Musin
Paling
Pape
Pape
P. A. Peterson
Pardio
Parke Benjamin
Parker
Paul Ehrlich
Paul G. Mehlin II
b. July 27, 1894
Paul Healy
Paul Mehlin
P. B. Smith
Peek
Pellisow
Peregrine White
Peronnard
Peter De Witt Lydecker
Peter Goelet
Peter Mixell
Peterson
Peter Van Baun
P. F. Fischer
Philip Harrison
Philip Rogers
Philologus Loud
Phil P. Campbell
P. J. Bailey
P. Krumscheid
P. K. Van Yorx
Plaidy
Pleyel
P. McDavitt
Pope Pius X
P. Reed
Professor Fischhof
Pugno
Putnam
Pythagoras
R. A. Johnston
d. 1882
Randal
active from 1838
Randolph Kreter
Raven
R. Delano Wing
Reinecke
Remenyi
R. E. Small
R. H. Butler
Richard
Richard Arnold
Richard C. Marsh
Richard Hoffmann
Richard Lipp
Richard Poehlmann
Richard Wagner
Rigoli
Rimbault
Ritter
Rivington
R. M. Walters
Robert B. Gregory
Robert Hannemann
Robert Henry Comstock
Robert Schumann
Robert Stodart
Robert Stodart (of London)
Rogers
fl. 1790s
Röseler
Rosen
Rosenthal
Rossi
Roux
R. Proddow
Rudolf Ibach Sohn
Rudolf Patzschke
Rudolph Wurlitzer, Sr.
Russell Hallet
co-founded firm c. 1835
R. W. Lawrence
R. W. S. Sperry
Sackmeister
Samuel Bradford
Samuel Campbell
Samuel Chickering
Samuel Hayward
Samuel Hazelton
Samuel Herve
S. Blackmore
S. B. Mills
S. Brooks
S. B. Shoninger
Scarlatti
S. C. Bond
Schmidt (of Schmidt & Company)
Schobert
Schulz
Schumacher (later Schomacker)
Schwander
Scoles
S. D. Smith
b. 1830
Seuffert
d. 1855
Seytre
Shaw
Sievers
Sir Alma Tadema
Sir Edward Poynter
Sir Herbert Marshall
Sir Julius Benedict
S. La Grassa
Smith
Snyder
Sofie Menter
Sophie Menter
Spaett
Sprecher
S. R. Perry
Steinert
Steinway
Steinweg (later Steinway)
Stevens
Stewart
1826
Stöcker
Stodart
Stradivarius
Swartz (of Munich)
Talbot
Tallman
active from 1838
Taws
T. DeWitt Talmage
Teresa Carreno
T. F. Scanlan
T. Gilbert
Theobald Boehm
Theodore C. Steinway
Theodore F. Steinway
Theodore Hagen
d. 1871
Theodore J. Neff
Theodore Steinway
d. 1889
Theodore Thomas
Thibouville-Lamy
Thom
Thomas Broadwood
Thomas Butcher
Thomas Clemence
Thomas Danquard
Thomas Doyle
Thomas H. Chambers
Thomas James Brinsmead
d. November 9, 1906
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas W. Denning
T. Kearsing
fl. to 1840
T. Leeds Waters
d. 1908
Traugott Berndt
Tschudi
Ulshoefer
fl. 1795
Van Winkle
Vitruvius
1st century A.D.
Von Hagen
Votey
Vuillaume
W. A. Conant
Wake
active 1840
Walker H. Miller
Wallace
Walter J. Bates
Walter L. Engelhardt
Walter Shriver
Walter Stewart Broadwood
W. A. Pond
Warren B. Thayer
Warriner
W. B. Fleming
W. C. Dobbs
W. C. Peters
W. C. Schwamb
W. C. Whitney
W. D. Cook
W.D. Dillingham Dutton
Weickert
Wenzel
Westland
W.F. Kearsing
fl. 1831
W. H. Currier
W. H. Ivers
W. H. Mackay
W. H. Newton
W. H. P. Bacon
Wilhelm Grotrian
Wilhelm Heyer
Wilhelmi
Willard A. Vose
William Abbott
died 1889
William B. Armstrong
William Bossert
William Brewster
William C. Comstock
William C. Hulett
William Cumston
patent issued 1839
William Danforth
William E. Nickerson
William F. Cooper
William Geib
fl. 1821-onward
William Haines
William H. Alfring
William Hotopp
William J. Gray
William Manner
William Mason
William Moore
William Pierson
William Stodart
William Strauch
William T. Miller
William Tremaine
William Vincent Wallace
Wilson
Winfield S. Weser
Winkelmann
Wise
1838
W. J. Keeley
Wood (of Virginia)
Wornum
Wornum
W. P. Collard
W. P. Stymus, Jr.
W. R. Farrand
Wright
W. R. Talbot
?–1884
W. T. Reed
W. Umland
W. Vincent Wallace
W. Whitelock
W. W. Kimball
W. W. Whitney
Xaver Scharwenka
Zeitter
Zumpe