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Vol. 86 July 18, 2026 No. 19

Gustav Anderson

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Biography

Gustav Anderson was the brother of piano designer John Anderson. In 1892 the two brothers were invited to start a piano factory together in Rockford, Illinois, but the venture was never carried out because of the financial panic of 1893. No further information about Gustav Anderson is given in the text; John Anderson instead went on to Minneapolis in 1894 to build pianos for the Century Piano Company.

Highlights

  • Brother of John Anderson; in 1892 the two were invited to start a piano factory at Rockford, Ill., a plan abandoned due to the Panic of 1893

Source

Alfred Dolge, Pianos and Their Makers, Vol. II (1913), p. 86.

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