Cable Company Chicago Piano Serial Number

31.07.2019

The Cable Piano Company
Industry	Piano designing / manufacturing
Founded	1880
Founder	Herman D. Cable
Headquarters	, The United States
Products	Pianos

Cable Company Chicago Piano Serial Number Chart

Cable Serial Numbers - Piano Age Lookup. Please reference the following years and serial numbers to research the age of your Hobart M. From years 1926 to 1929, grand pianos used their own serial numbers. 1926 - 2000 1928 - 3000 1927 - 2500 1929 - 3500 - 1901 - 1900. This is a partial list of piano manufacturers.Most piano professionals have access to detailed information about these brands using a Piano Atlas to reference serial numbers, which are used to determine a piano's age using the year a piano was built.

Row of key fitters at the Cable Company factory.

Kingsbury was one of the many brands produced by the Cable Company.

The Cable Piano Company or simply Cable Company was an American piano manufacturing company founded by Herman D. Cable in 1880. It was one of the largest piano makers in Chicago.^[1] It claimed to be 'the world's greatest manufacturer of pianos, inner player pianos, and organs'.^[2] In 1901, the company built a factory in St. Charles on 3.5 acres west of the Fox River.^[2]

History[edit]

After being originally involved with the Western Cottage Organ Company (later changed to Chicago Cottage Organ Company), H.D. Cable founded The Cable Piano Company, and subsequently became one of the major contributors to the American piano industry.^[3] In 1890, Cable consolidated with the Conover Brothers, as well as his two brothers Fayette S. Cable and Hobart M. Cable (although Fayette S. Cable and Hobart M. Cable continued to build pianos under their own names).^[4] During the factory's heyday in the early 1900s, there were as many as 500 employees.^[2]

Brands[edit]

The Cable Company produced pianos under different name brands, after acquiring other piano makers. In 1936, the Schiller Piano Company was acquired, producing pianos under the name Cable and Conover. Other piano brands that were acquired and/or produced by Cable were Euphona,^[5] Kingsbury,^[6] Wellington^[7] and Elburn. The facility known as the Wellington Piano Case Company Building, is on the National Register of Historic Places in Leominster, Massachusetts.

Building[edit]

The factory was located in the city of Saint Charles, Illinois near the Fox River. Built in 1901, it manufactured pianos until 1936, when it was converted into a furniture factory for W.H. Howell. The factory would close in January 1980 due to financial hardships.^[2] It would reopen six years later in May 1986^[2] as the Piano Factory Outlet Mall serving as an indoor mall with many outlet stores for major brands such as Corning, American Tourister, Carter's, Pfalzgraff and Anchor Hocking. The outlet mall would close in 1997, due to foreclosure on the site.^[2]^[8] The building was razed in September 2000 to make way for a residential development.^[2] Condominiums and other mixed use buildings occupy the site now.