Excerpt from History of the American Pianoforte: Its Technical Development, and the Trade
John Broadwood Sebastian Erard. Jonas Chickering. John Jacob Astor. William Knabe. Henry E. Steinway. William B. Bradbury. John' Firth.
Isaac Woodward. George Jardine. John B. Dunham. James A. Gray. Henry C. Watson. Albert Weber, Sr. Henry F. Miller. John C. Freund. William M. Thorns. Napoleon J. Haines.
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