Most American piano factories were located on the eastern seaboard between Washington DC and Boston.

There were many tens of thousands of pianos built between 18 and a number of those pianos still survive today in some form. Then, as now, there were builders of varying quality Steinway & Sons in New York and Chickering & Sons from Boston were some of the high quality builders. There were many others of differing quality including our own firm M. Higher-end European Manufacturers less than 20 years old, such as Bosendorfer, Fazioli, Bechstein, to name a few.Įuropean Made Pianos and Grey Market Yamaha.Pearl River pianos less than 10 years old.Samick pianos (including Knabe, Kohler & Campbell, Pramberger, Seiler etc) less than 15 years old.Steinway Designed Boston and Essex Pianos less than 15-20 years old.Yamaha and Kawai pianos less than 15 years old.Steinway & Sons pianos less than 40 years old (30 years old is the cutoff to be considered for the Steinway Certified Pre-Owned Program).Manufacturers and brands that retain the most value and are most re-sellable on the open market: Steinert & Sons which built pianos in two factories in Leominster MA under the names Jewett, Hume, Woodbury and Steinert.

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