Now housed at Heritage Junction Historic Park in Newhall. The last Kimball pianos were made in 1996.
Kimball International is now a Fortune 500 Company with involvements in furniture making, contract cabinetry, electronic subassembly, and plastics. piano maker Krakauer in 1980, supplier companies such as the English maker of the Schwander and Langer actions, Herrburger Brooks and timber lands, lumber mills, and firms in other industries necessary to its operations. During the next two decades, Jasper, now called Kimball International, purchased the renowned Austrian piano manufacturer Bosendorfer in 1966, the highly respected U.S. In 1959, Kimball was sold to the Jasper Corporation, an Indiana plywood and cabinet manufacturer and piano production was moved to Indiana. here is a image that I found of my piano except mine has the serial number 252906. when Kimball, a poor Maine farmboy who had set up a business selling real estate and insurance in Iowa, moved to Chicago and opened up a piano store, convinced that there was money to be made supplying goods to "Western" pioneers. Kimball Piano Group (formerly Kimball Piano & Organ Co.) was founded in 1857 under the name of W.W. Kimball square pianos made by Hale used 40000 to 45000 Kimball squares made by Emerson used 14000 to 24000 (1870s). Kimball pianos in the 1870s used serial numbers in the 17000 to 24000 range. Production of Grands stopped early 1996 and Verticals in April 1996. Uprights usually have the serial number stamped on the plate near the top of the piano or stamped in a window in the plate.W.W. 'Since 1976 Kimball serial numbers are preceded by a letter letters stand for: RKimball Brand, JJasper American private label, CConn, TMisc. This is looking from the tail end of the piano. Kimball pianos sometimes have the serial number in a hard-to-find place stamped on the back edge of the keybed. Sometimes the number is stamped in the soundboard under the strings. The most common place on a grand piano is stamped on the plate in the V shaped area between the tenor and the bass sections of the plate or at the treble end. Some piano have other numbers stamped on them that are used in the manufacturing process. For European pianos, Bill Kibby in England has better information than we do at Piano Gen. You are usually looking for a 5 or 6 digit number. Dates that are cast into the plate of a piano are dates when the company was founded and not dates for the particular piano. All Baldwin Upright or Vertical Pianos - Does not include Hamilton Studios or Baldwin Grand Pianos. They can be in unusual places and this page shows some of the places to find the serial number. Pianos almost always have a serial number somewhere.
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