Archive Record
Images
Metadata
Collection |
Waterloo Region Museum |
Object ID |
2012.041.006 |
Object Name |
Music, Sheet |
Title |
Berlin Piano and Organ Co. Limited |
Description |
Hardcover bound volume of sheet music. Exterior cover is green paper on cardboard with a black fabric spine. Printed on the front cover is "Berlin Piano/and/Organ Co. Limited/Modern Method/(Bellak No. 2)/Published by/The/Berlin Piano and Organ Co./Limited/Berlin, Ont.". There is an image of an organ on the right side. Decorative floral border around the exterior edge of the front cover. Printed on the back cover is an advertisement for the same company. The interior pages are printed on newsprint and contain music to popular songs. |
Date |
1890 |
Date |
1904 |
History |
The Berlin Piano and Organ Company was founded in 1890 by a consortium of local businessmen, including J.M. Staebler, Frederick Snyder, E.P. Clement, Jacob Kaufman, F.G. Gardiner, and John Fennell. The factory was located on King Street West, at the corner of Breithaupt Street and beside the Berlin Rubber Company, currently the Breithaupt Block. Around 1904, the company was purchased by W.H. Snyder and, in 1906, it was bought out by U.S. piano maker, Foster-Armstrong. Pianos continued to be manufactured at the factory until 1924 when the remaining assets were purchased by Sherlock-Manning, a leading Canadian piano manufacturer, and moved to their factory in Clinton, Ontario. |
Search Terms |
Berlin Piano and Organ Company Limited |
Creator |
Berlin Piano and Organ Company Limited |