William Knabe
Wm. Knabe & Co. was a piano manufacturing company in Baltimore, Maryland, from the middle of the nineteenth century through the beginning of the 20th century, and continued as a division of Aeolian Company, Aeolian-American at East Rochester, New York, until 1982. The name is currently used for a line of pianos manufactured by Samick, Samick Musical Instruments. History Valentin Wilhelm Ludwig Knabe was born in Creuzburg, Saxe-Weimar, on June 3, 1803. The War of the Sixth Coalition, French campaigns in Germany in 1813 prevented him from studying to become an apothecary like his father, and instead he apprenticed with a Cabinet making, cabinet maker, after which he worked two years as a journeyman cabinet maker, then for three years for a piano maker in Gotha (town), Gotha, before working as a journeyman piano maker in different cities in Germany. In 1831, Knabe accompanied his fiancée's family when they emigrated from Saxe-Meiningen to the United States, but the head of the fami ...
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