Chappell Pianos of London was founded. For more information on Chappell's see The History of Chappell Pianos. The company also made Elysian pianos which are now made by Young Chang.

1810

Schumann was born.

1811

Liszt was born.

1811

Samuel Chappell, Francis Tattor, and John Baptist Cramer formed the publishing firm of Chappell & Co. on 1st January 1811. Cramer left in 1813 and Chappell is said to have dissolved the whole partnership in 1825. One source claims that Cramer dissolved the partnership at the end of the seven-year agreement in 1818. Chappell took his oldest son, William into business, and he became director of the firm when his father died in 1834, although William's formidable mother became manager. The second son, Thomas, 1819-1902, left school to join his father when he went blind near the end of his life. Cramer was born in Mannheim in 1771 and died in England in 1858. Clementi taught him, and in 1793 he gave his first public performance, using a Broadwood piano. He became famous for his playing and acquired the appellation "Glorious John." One of his more illustrious pupils was George Smart. After working for Chappell, Cramer started his own publishing firm. Like Chappell at a later date the name was associated with piano making. A number of piano makers and organ builders both printed and published music at the same time. Click here for more information on the History of Johann Baptist Cramer.

1815

The pricelist of 1815 of Messrs. John Broadwood & Sons reads as follows:

Six-octave grand £40.10s.0d

Six-octave ornamented Grand £46.0s.0d

Six-octave upright grand £46.0s.0d

Six-Octave cabinet £33.2s 0d

Six-octave ornamented cabinet £48.0s.0d

Six-octave cabinet with additional keys £31.0s.0d

Square with round corners and compass C to C £22.15s.0d

Square with double action £18.3s.0d

Square with single action £17.6s.0d

Square (elegant) £26.0s.0d

1817

Thomas Broadwood visited Vienna, after which he wrote to Beethoven, offering him a piano. Beethoven wrote back in February 1818: " I shall regard it was an altar upon which I will place the choicest offerings of my mind to the Divine Apollo". Beethoven was very appreciative of the six-octave grands, preferring the bigger tone of the English piano. The piano still exists today.In That year Broadwoods were using four metals bars in the trebles of their grands.

1819

This was the year that Brockedon began drawing steel wire through holes in diamonds and rubies. It would also appear to be the date for the first use of steel wire in Broadwood pianos.

1820

Aucher Fr?res of France was one of the first piano makers with a folding keyboard, which came to be known as a ship's piano. The company stopped making pianos in the 1930s.

1823

Chickering (1796 - 1853), having started as a cabinetmaker in New Hampshire, became an apprentice with Babcock, a piano maker in Boston, in 1818. It is believed that Chickering became a partner of Babcock at his new address, 11 Marlborough Street, Boston. This would have only been for two years at the most. The firm of Chickering, established in 1823, has the longest history of piano making in America. In 1932 they merged with the Aeolian American Corp., and Wurlitzer started making Chickering pianos around 1986.

1823

The Eavestaff company was established in 1823 at Finsbury Park, London. The Brasted brothers took them over in 1925. At the end of the 1970s Eavestaff pianos were marketed by a new company formed by John Brasted. The pianos were to be made under licence by Kemble & Co. For some years previously, Eavestaff pianos were made at the Barratt & Robinson factory, Hermitage Road, Harringay. From the 1950s onward Eavestaff only made Minipianos, the best one being the Royal. They stopped making pianos in 1983. In the USA Hardman Peck & Co. made Eavestaff Minipianos under licence in the 1950s and 60s. However, today Eavestaff pianos are made by in China, and are not Minipianos, but a standard upright. Brasted pianos were made by them as well.