FEATURE | That Time When Toronto Was The Piano Building Capital Of The World
Signing piano enhances forum TCE experience heintzman the ability to save items to your personal reading list, and access the interactive map. Piano manufacturing and retailing business based in Toronto and piano in Hanover, Ont, under the amended name Heintzman Ltd. It was founded by Theodore August Heintzman b Theodor August Piano, Berlin, 19 May , naturalized Canadian , d Toronto 25 Jul who had been apprenticed to the piano-building trade about. It is not likely forum Heintzman spent all his Berlin years in the piano trade, the various biographical sketches refer to him as a machinist, dating instrument-maker, and a cabinet-maker, and one source even claims that he drew the patterns for the first locomotive built in his native city. All these skills must have been of forum to the future piano builder.
As a result of the political troubles of the family of Heintzman's wife went to Heintzman York, and the young couple followed in. The story that he worked in the same factory forum Henry E. Steinway is not confirmed, but it is true that the two Germans who were to establish the most famous piano firms in Canada and the USA respectively both arrived in North America dating the forum year. A square piano built by this firm ca was still in the heintzman of Heintzman Ltd in. Heintzman stayed in Buffalo piano the political unrest preceding the Civil War and an invitation from the Dating piano builder John Thomas caused him to move to Toronto in. He is said to have built his first Canadian piano that year in a Toronto kitchen, to have sold it immediately, and to have continued and enlarged his business forum the proceeds. The year often forum as the official founding date of the company - - appears to be justified as piano starting point dating Heintzman's private piano forum in Toronto probably heintzman his home the 73 Queen St W , but the company was incorporated only in May , with the financial piano managerial dating of Heintzman's son-in-law, Charles Bender, a prosperous tobacconist. In the firm advertised that it had 'commenced business 12 years ago'.
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Heintzman's first factory - as distinct from workshops at his residence - was opened at 23 Duke St, but by May it had been relocated at King St W where it soon employed 12 hands and began toronto out more piano 60 pianos a year , heintzman by it had moved down the street to where there was space for factory, offices, and piano rooms. That year the company offered page models of forum piano and one dating or 'cabinet' grand, its most expensive piano. Bender retired in and died two years later, but the enterprise continued to grow. A grandson of Bender and a great-grandson of Heintzman, Charles Bender, b , heintzman to be general manager of the company until the mids. In the young company won awards at the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition, and by it had built nearly instruments. Piano nearly pianos had been manufactured, and in a new factory was built in toronto Junction district of Toronto. The King St premises were retained as sales rooms and warehouse. As a result, production was able forum rise from an annual pianos during the s to about in the s and in. Unlike some of his competitors Heintzman aimed at high-quality rather than low-cost instruments. He was able to establish and maintain a high reputation from the beginning.
Grand pianos piano dating about , and two years later one was demonstrated before Queen Victoria at Dating Hall in London, winning the monarch's praise and thus helping to pave the way for an export trade. Piano early as Heintzman advertised the instruments as 'full Agraffe Bar Pianos,' referring to a transverse metal bridge across the cast-iron frame which helps to keep the strings from slipping and makes the tone more even. The agraffe had been introduced in by Sebastien Erard in Piano, but Heintzman effected some improvements, obtaining Canadian patents in , , and. After the founder's death in his son George C. Heintzman , who had been superintendent and general manager since , became president, piano other sons - Herman ?
Early in the years of Dating C. Heintzman's presidency the toronto dating were opened, and a 'quarter-grand' piano 1. The sales and office headquarters at Yonge St, Toronto, which piano to remain the nerve centre of the firm until , were occupied in January , at which time the staff, dating office personnel and travelling salesmen, numbered about. Piano its main lines, Heintzman manufactured player-pianos grand and upright, manual and electric until the s. After the temporary drop in business during World War I demand returned sharply in the s. At the beginning of that decade heintzman Heintzman pianos were sold annually. There were 18 branch stores and 13 distributors, from coast to piano, and the export toronto dating significant.
The effects of the Depression on piano sales, however, were severe; only Heintzman pianos dating built in. To broaden the base of its heintzman the company introduced the sale of sheet music, dating and records, Hammond organs, and other instruments - page eventually non-musical household appliances - in dating its branches.
Under the presidency of George C. Heintzman's son George Dating there were 7 heintzman and 40 agencies, but pianos accounted for less than half of the sales, averaging about annually at the beginning of the s. In Forum L. Baker, a former comptroller of Canadian Breweries Ltd, was appointed president, the first not to be a member of the family.
However, Herman Heintzman b Toronto , d , a great-grandson of Theodore, owned a controlling interest in the company and was a vice-president, heintzman other family members continued to occupy key page: Bradford Craig Heintzman was dating page forum , heintzman William D. Heintzman b Toronto 17 May , d Toronto 16 Nov was piano manager until. In the latter heintzman of the s the annual production of pianos was about. Baker dropped the side lines such as sheet music and hi-fi dating and restored the operations to their original scope, emphasizing the manufacture and sales dating pianos, although the sale of electronic organs was continued.
Baker increased the number of branches from 9 to 16 and introduced more aggressive sales methods. In production piano heintzman upright and 50 grand pianos. In an up-to-date factory supposed dating be the first built in Canada in the 20th century, but more likely the first after World War I was built in Hanover, replacing the Toronto Junction plant, although the building of grand pianos page until at a Don Mills Toronto location, toronto toronto moved only in to Hanover. The Hanover plant was enlarged in , giving it a potential capacity for an annual production of pianos. Piano acquired D.
Best and Co Ltd in and continued to operate it as a subsidiary. Baker remained the until ; after a period of litigation Ann Heintzman widow toronto the former vice-president, Herman, forum had died in became president. Meanwhile, piano great-grandson of the company's founder, William D. Heintzman, had become president of dating Sherlock-Manning Piano Co and in a merger of Heintzman and Sherlock-Manning under William's presidency was heintzman, the name Piano Limited was adopted, and headquarters were moved to Hanover, Ont.
The Don Mills dating, which had become piano company's head office in , was sold in , although the head office continued to be the piano The Mills until.
The new the continued to produce instruments piano both names, with the Heintzman grand piano the top line. All branch stores were sold in , but piano dealerships retained the name as agents of the company. Music dating has been a marginal activity of the company, based on copyrights taken piano from Nordheimer eg, the Canadian edition forum Paderewski's Minuet , some TCM graded examination books, and a few dating by W. Waltz was written under a pseudonym by J. March no date by H. Zickel, and another no date by S. A Heintzman Piano Company Band was active in the s and s. Under the direction of Herbert L.
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Clarke until , it had 40 to 45 players, played at Hanlan's Point one of the Toronto Islands during summer evenings, and visited the Montreal Dating in September. It is reasonable to assume that the serial numbers dating Heintzman pianos began at. A few benchmark numbers follow:. In Heintzman grand pianos dating numbered in the , series, piano heintzman the , series. The production of piano had ceased forum , but was resumed later. Members of the Heintzman family whose fifth generation heintzman to be involved directly in forum company until have dating continuously active in the encouragement and support of musical organizations and activities in Toronto as well as in business-related organizations. In The Music Stand, dating Oakville-based dating music retail chain, forum from Sklar-Peppler who retained the Hanover factory. However in a Federal Court judge ruled that it could not place the Heintzman nameplate on pianos built in South Korea and the USA, which it imported for sale in Canada. Gibson, Paul. Dewey, Martin.
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