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Weber upright piano review2/14/2023 Weber & Company responded to the whirlwind effect Steinway & Sons was having on the industry. The intense advertising wars - what Loesser calls "artist-concert-testimonial advertising" - between the top companies during the later part of the 19th and early part of the 20th centuries was extremely expensive to anyone forced to play such a ruthless advertising game (even today the top companies spend an incredible amount of money on advertising). It's fairly impossible to uncover obscure facts like that now, over a century later. Loesser suggests malicious competitors or disgruntled employees might have been the ones spreading the rumors. Apparently there were no charges made or proof to the claims circulating at the time. Arthur Loesser writes about rumors that less expensive pianos with the Weber name were not actually made by Weber & Company at all. In the history of Weber piano company, there is an interesting rumor thread. Weber & Company was in fact finally purchased by Aeolian. Many names, like Weber were finally assumed by other name-purchasing companies like the Aeolian Piano Company. Steinway has eclipsed many names then known for their outstanding old world craft skills in cabinet making and piano making. For historical memory the Weber name and many others, like Ernst Gabler, Frederick Mathushek and George Steck, as well as other names like Behning and Fischer would probably be names all piano enthusiasts would be familiar with if it weren't for the Steinway Company. | Pianos We've Restored | Weber, New York, New YorkĪlbert Weber started a piano company in New York City that became a well respected and prosperous business. | Featured Pianos | Piano Company Profiles | A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
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