American Made Pianos

An Outstanding Manufacturing Tradition

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Hallet and Davis

Factory Location: Boston, Massachusettes
Serial Number Dates: 1850 - 1957

History:

The Hallet & Davis Piano Company was established in 1843, and made its own pianos for over a century. After a long series of owners, including Brown & Allen and Hallet & Cumston, the company was eventually aquired by Aeolian.

 

Information source: Pierce Piano Atlas

The Resonance of a Continent: The American Piano Tradition

The American piano manufacturing tradition is a story of unparalleled craftsmanship meeting the boundless natural resources of a new world. At its heart lies the selection of materials—most notably the vast, old-growth spruce forests of the Pacific Northwest and the Northeast. These superior stands of Sitka and Adirondack spruce provided the tight-grained, resonant timber essential for crafting the world’s finest soundboards, offering a tonal depth and "singing" quality that European makers envied. Combined with a relentless spirit of industrial innovation, American makers refined the overstrung scale and the heavy cast-iron plate, creating instruments of such structural integrity and powerful projection that they redefined the modern piano.