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Kellmer Piano Company
Factory Location: Hazelton, Pennsylvania
Serial Number Dates: 1890 - 1926
History:
The Kellmer Piano Company, also known as the Kellmar Piano Company was establihsed in 1883. The company is also known for its organs. Production betan in the late 1800s and continued until 1926.
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.
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