![]() On one piano seller’s site, for instance, I found a ‘Cable Euphona Player Piano’ valued at $27,500 and a ‘Cable Piano’ dating from the Victorian era at a more modest $18,000. According to many reliable sources, Cable Pianos are felt to be amongst the most sort after antique pianos worthy of restoration. These names included, Schiller, Kingsbury, Wellington, Conover, Palmetto and DeKoven pianos. I feel it is important to point this out as if you are searching for one of these pianos you may be able to trace or discover one of the viable alternatives. Under the broad banner of The Cable Company pianos with many different names were made. The building was subsequently converted to one that produced furniture and in the latter part of the 20 th Century was demolished to make way for substantial housing development. No factory exists now in Illinois where pianos were manufactured until 1936. Today, Conover Cable Pianos are no longer manufactured. These instruments were made in Indonesia until the end of 2008. It then was not until 1996 that the piano designers and producers called Samick Music Corporation re-introduced the brand of Conover Cable Pianos. ![]() They manufactured pianos right up until around 1982. ![]() In the 1960s the company transferred to the Aeolian Corporation of New York. It was this company that made pianos under the name of Cable and Conover. Such was their success that the Cable Company purchased other less fortunate piano manufacturers including the Schiller Piano Company in 1936. The Cable Company enjoyed considerable success and at the height of its popularity claimed to have employed over 500 people. These are essentially player pianos of ‘pianolas’ as they later came to be known. Based initially in Chicago, they manufactured a range of instruments, notably pianos, organs, and ‘inner players’. ![]() The ’Cable Company’ as they were often referred to, dates back to the late part of the 19 th Century and the founder Mr. In part, I think this is due to living in the UK as opposed to the US, but what I discovered about these pianos, I hope you will find informative. ![]() I like to believe that my knowledge of the world of pianos is quite extensive having spent many years playing these fine instruments but I must confess to not being fully aware of this particular manufacturer. ![]()
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