Baldwin 243

Description: Here we have a reconditioned Baldwin 243 Upright Piano Make: Baldwin Model: 243 Finish: (SW) Satin Walnut Statues: Used/Reconditioned Baldwin Pianos The company was founded by Dwight Hamilton Baldwin a Cincinnati music educator. He started it with $2,000 he saved from teaching for seven years. He used the money to start his own retail piano shop in 1862 selling Chickering, Steinway, Decker Brothers, and Vose pianos as well as Estey Reed organs and a small number of pianos manufactured by The Ohio Valley Piano Co. sold under the D.H. Baldwin & Co. name. In 1865 Baldwin hired Lucien Wulsin as a bookkeeper and in 1873 offered him a full partnership in the company. In 1887 Steinway made one of the biggest errors in their history. They cancelled Baldwin as a Steinway & Sons piano dealer thereby creating Steinway’s biggest domestic competitor of the 20th century. This cancellation led the Baldwin company to begin designing and building their own pianos and organs. In 1889 they acquired the Hamilton organ company of Chicago and the following year established the Baldwin Piano Company. Their goal was to put the Baldwin brand on only the highest quality pianos made. Baldwin vowed to build “the best piano that could be built and subsequently formed two production companies: Hamilton Organ, which built reed organs, and the Baldwin Piano Company, which made pianos. The company’s first piano, an upright, began selling in 1891. The company introduced its first grand piano in 1895. In 1899 Baldwin passed and Wulsin purchased Baldwin’s estate guiding the company from retail to manufacturing. Baldwin won their first major award the “Grand Prix” in Paris in 1912. This was the first American manufactured piano to win such an award. Baldwin pianos also won top honors at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition and the 1914 Anglo-American Exposition. By 1913 Baldwin was exporting to thirty-two countries and had dozens of retailers throughout the United States. (Baldwin 243) as advertised. Call or email us for more info Available at our NEW Arroyo Pasadena location https://offerup.com/profile/hollywoodpiano https://www.hollywoodpiano.com/product-category/USED-PIANOS/

Price: 2995 USD

Location: Burbank, California

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