Mindful of John Wesley’s strictures on the use of many words in buying and selling, Simon made a pile practicing medicine, but in this pursuit he was unhappy lest he be tempted into doing what he knew was not for the glory of God, as the putting on of gold and costly apparel. In England, Simon was irritated by the persecution of those who called themselves Methodists at the hands of their more liberal brethren, and as Simon called himself a Methodist, he worked his way across the Atlantic to Philadelphia, thence to Jamaica, thence to Mobile, and up the Saint Stephens. All we had was Simon Finch, a fur-trapping apothecary from Cornwall whose piety was exceeded only by his stinginess. Our father said we were both right.īeing Southerners, it was a source of shame to some members of the family that we had no recorded ancestors on either side of the Battle of Hastings. If General Jackson hadn’t run the Creeks up the creek, Simon Finch would never have paddled up the Alabama, and where would we be if he hadn’t? We were far too old to settle an argument with a fist-fight, so we consulted Atticus.
I said if he wanted to take a broad view of the thing, it really began with Andrew Jackson. He said it began the summer Dill came to us, when Dill first gave us the idea of making Boo Radley come out. I maintain that the Ewells started it all, but Jem, who was four years my senior, said it started long before that. When enough years had gone by to enable us to look back on them, we sometimes discussed the events leading to his accident. He couldn’t have cared less, so long as he could pass and punt. His left arm was somewhat shorter than his right when he stood or walked, the back of his hand was at right angles to his body, his thumb parallel to his thigh. When it healed, and Jem’s fears of never being able to play football were assuaged, he was seldom self-conscious about his injury. At present there is probably less than a few hundred makers in the whole world, with China most likely having more piano factories than any other country.When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow. Thousands of piano manufacturers have come and gone since the beginnings of this magnificent instrument. Most pianos then and now are sold to average income families. But high quality means a higher price tag. Now of course, a few dealers were not using this practice, and were just using their name on the pianos in order to advertise their company.Īlthough, quality piano makers like Steinway and Baldwin also probably hated seeing all those cheap bad pianos being pawned off on the public. So it makes sense that they would order cheaply built instruments. One reason being that these pianos were usually much lower quality, and who wants their name on junk? As for the people using a stencil name, they were quite often very deceitful. It seems that the companies building the stencil pianos refused to place their names anywhere on the instruments. And force the makers to put their name on their pianos. And during the first 20 years of the 1900's well known makers like Baldwin and Steinway tried to get the government to pass a law to stop this disturbing practice. Nowadays there are enough trade name laws that make it very difficult to get away with this. Most of these bogus attempts to rip off the actual makers name happened in the early part of the twentieth century. One example of an actual stencil is Steinvey, which looks almost like Steinway. Some piano dealers were that devious(and maybe some still are). Sometimes these names were misspellings of famous companies with the intentions of capitalizing on the famous name. A stencil piano is one made by various piano makers for companies or individuals who place or stencil their name on the front of the piano. We have also made an effort to avoid stencil piano names on this list.
And keep in mind that while this list is quite long it still does not contain all piano brands that have been made since the history of the piano began around 1700. Most likely though at least 75% or more of these names will never be seen again on a piano. It's possible that in the future some will be used again. Many names are owned by various existing piano companies that are not currently (2012) using some of them on their instruments. Many piano company names on this list are no longer used and the makers in some cases have been out of business for years. This listing contains hundreds of pianos in it's long history of manufacturing.
There is also a huge number of piano brand names. This page contains a huge list of piano makers and manufacturers.