American Made Pianos

An Outstanding Manufacturing Tradition

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Cable Piano Company

Factory Location: Memphis, Tennessee
Serial Number Dates: 1885 - 1982

History:

The Cable Piano Company was established in 1881. The company went through several transitions. In the 1880s Cable was affiliated with the Wolfinger Organ Company, also known as the Western Cottage Organ Company and the Chicago Cottage Organ Company. The company was also purchased by the Aeolian Piano Company. By the turn of the century, the company had merged with Fayette and Hobart Cable.

 

Information source: Pierce Piano Atlas

The Resonance of a Continent: The American Piano Tradition

The American piano manufacturing tradition is a story of unparalleled craftsmanship meeting the boundless natural resources of a new world. At its heart lies the selection of materials—most notably the vast, old-growth spruce forests of the Pacific Northwest and the Northeast. These superior stands of Sitka and Adirondack spruce provided the tight-grained, resonant timber essential for crafting the world’s finest soundboards, offering a tonal depth and "singing" quality that European makers envied. Combined with a relentless spirit of industrial innovation, American makers refined the overstrung scale and the heavy cast-iron plate, creating instruments of such structural integrity and powerful projection that they redefined the modern piano.