A vintage baby grand piano like this one is made of top quality REAL wood, no plastic or particle board. We see these cheap new pianos suffering severe deterioration after only a few years due to the lack of quality materials and workmanship. You get particle board cabinets, plastic action parts, acrylic veneer, and green unseasoned wood. You can buy a new Asian imported baby grand piano for well under $10,000, but you get what you pay for. Modern manufacturers count on people buying small pianos for aesthetics rather than for function, so they are able to make small new pianos of lesser quality that sell. Today, modern piano manufacturers tend to put their better quality, materials, and workmanship in their larger, more expensive pianos. It is made of elegantly carved Circassian walnut wood, and is of the French Provincial style. This little piano was built by the Whitney Piano Company, one of the subsidiaries of the famous Kimball Piano Company of Chicago. Print.This is a lovely apartment size baby grand from the golden era of piano building. Music for the Millions: The Kimball Piano and Organ Story. Pierce Piano Atlas: Anniversary Edition, 2017 Our 70th Year. Need restoration, repair or refinishing for your Kimball? Contact Lindeblad today! Affordable and readily-available, Kimball pianos were the ideal piano for in-home practice in the 1950s-1970s. Known for their grand, upright and spinet pianos, many midwestern Americans found themselves buying Kimball pianos in the mid-1900s due to the Chicago location of the manufacturing facility.
Depending on the type, style, and age of the piano, Lindeblad has restored some Kimball pianos to now be worth up to $20,000. These names included:Ĭonsidered a middle tier piano in terms of quality, sound, and price, Kimball Pianos range in value between $500-1,000 unrestored. Kimball produced many different upright, grand and spinet style pianos under various names. Īcquiring several smaller piano companies throughout the 20th century, Kimball rose to prominence as one of the largest piano manufacturers throughout the Great Depression time period and mid-1900s. Due to a decline in sales, the piano and organ division shut down and the last Kimball piano was produced in 1996.
With piano sales peaking in the 1960s and 70s, Kimball began manufacturing home and office furniture and electronics and went public as Kimball International.
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In 1959, Kimball sold to Jasper Corporation who continued production of Kimball piano names and serial numbers. A short decline in business around the time of World War II led to the relocation of the Kimball Piano operations from Chicago to Indiana where they reside today. Ī decade later, in 1888, Kimball started piano production and quickly rose to prominence as one of the largest manufacturers of its time, making nearly 22,000 pianos in the year 1902 alone. In the haste of the fire, Kimball and his acquaintances managed to wheel only seven grand pianos out of the burning building before the rest of the building’s contents were burned to ashes. After a recent $80,000+ renovation, the fire brought it to the ground. Sadly, the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 caused great damage to the Crosby Opera House where Kimball’s store resided. Kimball was producing his own reed organs and built a facility to support the largest organ manufacturing operation in the world at the time. Founded originally in 1857 by William Wallace Kimball, the Kimball Piano Company got its start as a piano dealer, selling popular brands of the time as well as affordable reed organs.
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