Oscar L. Kindler
b. 1875
Biography
Oscar L. Kindler was born in New York in 1875 and studied designing in the evening classes of Cooper Union. He learned the piano trade with Decker Brothers and later gained further experience as a piano builder in several of New York's leading factories. During the 1905-6 season he served as secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association school for piano scale drawing. In the spring of 1911 he co-founded the firm of Kindler and Collins with William P. Collins, which succeeded from the start and acquired the business and trademark of the old Needham Piano Company, subsequently manufacturing Kindler and Collins and Needham pianos.
Highlights
- Trained under the famed Decker Brothers before co-founding Kindler and Collins in 1911
- His firm acquired the Needham Piano Company's business and trademark
Source
Alfred Dolge, Pianos and Their Makers, Vol. II (1913), pp. 119, 120.
Public domain.