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Brinkerhoff Piano Company: Chicago: US 1906–1950 Brinsmead: London: UK 1835–1921 Brødrene Hals: Oslo: Norway 1847–1925 Bush & Gerts: Chicago: US 1884–1942 Bought by Haddorff Piano co. in 1942. Cable and Sons: New York: US 1852–1936 Cable Piano Company: Chicago: US 1880–1937 Merged with Schiller Piano Company to become The Schiller ...
Originally named Allen Manufacturing Company, the business produced hexagonal set screws and wrenches to fasten them. The terms "Allen wrench" (American English) and "Allen key" (British English) [3] are derived from the Allen brand name and refer to the generic product category "hex keys". W.G. Allen [4] filed the first related patent in 1909 ...
In 1915 he invented the first vacuum tube instrument, the audio piano. Until the invention of the transistor , the vacuum tube was an essential component in electric instruments. In 1935, the Hammond organ was introduced, [7] exploiting previous limited production efforts like the Robb Wave Organ [8] from 1923.
A musical keyboard is the set of adjacent depressible levers or keys on a musical instrument. Keyboards typically contain keys for playing the twelve notes of the Western musical scale, with a combination of larger, longer keys and smaller, shorter keys that repeats at the interval of an octave. Pressing a key on the keyboard makes the ...
Celesta. The celesta / sɪˈlɛstə / or celeste / sɪˈlɛst /, also called a bell-piano, is a struck idiophone operated by a keyboard. It looks similar to an upright piano (four- or five- octave ), albeit with smaller keys and a much smaller cabinet, or a large wooden music box (three-octave). The keys connect to hammers that strike a ...
314.122-4-8. (Simple chordophone with keyboard sounded by tangents) Developed. Early 14th century. The clavichord is a stringed rectangular keyboard instrument [1] that was used largely in the Late Middle Ages, through the Renaissance, Baroque and Classical eras. [2]
Christopher Latham Sholes (February 14, 1819 – February 17, 1890) was an American inventor who invented the QWERTY keyboard, [2] and, along with Samuel W. Soule, Carlos Glidden and John Pratt, has been contended to be one of the inventors of the first typewriter in the United States. [3] [4] [5] He was also a newspaper publisher and Wisconsin ...
A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, a row of levers which are pressed by the fingers. The most common of these are the piano , organ , and various electronic keyboards , including synthesizers and digital pianos .