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1971
Schimmel acquires Pleyel, Erard, Gaveau

1972
CBS buys Steinway & Sons

British Piano Tuners Association becomes a professional body

1973
Steve Reich: Six Pianos composed

1974
Baldwin buys Bechstein, Berlin

1980s
Development of computerized player pianos, Bosendorfer, Yamaha, Baldwin, and others

1980
Fazioli pianos presented, Sacile (Portenone), Italy

1985
- A group of Boston businessmen buys Steinway & Sons from CBS
- Aeolian Corporation disbanded
- Wurlitzer buys Chickering name

1987
Baldwin sells Bechstein back to employees

1988
- Klavins builds a 12-feet-high experimental upright, Bonn, Germany
- Steinway & Sons builds its 500,000th piano

1990
- Young Chang buys Kurzweil Music Systems, American maker of electronic keyboards
- PianoDisc (Music Systems Research) established, Sacramento
- Chavanne Pianos established in France

1991
Boston Piano Company established as Steinway subsidiary, New York

1993
Darrell Fandrich patents new upright action design, Seattle

1995
- Steinway and Selmer merge into Steinway Musical Instruments
- Baldwin buys Wurlitzer and Chickering names

1996
- Piano Disc takes control of Mason & Hamlin, Sohmer, and Knabe
- Young Chang opens factory in Tianjin, China
- Kimball ceases piano manufacture

1997
- Broadwood barless grand piano design patented and launched
- Dietrich Heinrich Dotzek of Sweden, takes out a patent for a magnetic assisted upright piano action

1998
- Steinway acquires Kluge, Europe's largest manufacturer of piano keys
- Broadwood celebrates their 270th anniversary

1999
- Deutsche Bank announces purchase of Baldwin retail financing units at a cost of 35 million dollars,  helping Baldwin Pianos to clear some of it debts and concentrate on piano production.

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