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1928-30
Neo-Bechstein, electric piano with electromagnetic pickups to amplify struck strings

1929
Great Depression seriously limits piano manufacture everywhere

1930
- Koichi Kawai leaves Yamaha and starts his own firm, Japan

1932
- American Piano Co. and Aeolian merge to form Aeolian American Corporation

1933
- Art Tatum's first professional solo recordings
- Challen Company makes the largest (11-foot-8-inch) grand ever made, London

1935
Alfred Knight Company founded to make uprights in Essex, England

1939-45
World War II effectively halts piano manufacture everywhere

1940
- American Association of Piano Technicians founded

1953
Liberace wins 2 Emmy Awards for network television programs

1955
Guangzhou-Pearl River Company established, Guangzhou, China

1958
- Samick Company established, Inchon, S. Korea
- Shanghai Piano Co. established, Shanghai
- Beijing Piano Co. established, Beijing

1960
Harold Rhodes develops the electric piano (Fender-Rhodes)

1961
Pleyel, Erard, Gaveau merge

1963
Kawai America established; followed by Kawai Europe, Canada, Australia and Asia.

1966
Bosendorfer, Vienna, acquired by Kimball, Chicago

1968
Young Chang begins making pianos, Inchon, S. Korea

1969
- Japanese piano production exceeds that of all other countries
- Yamaha is Japan's largest producer
- Astin-Weight patents larger soundboard design for uprights, Salt Lake City

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