In keeping with the tradition, established by Hampton Story and Melville Clark, of integrating the latest technology into pianos, all Story & Clark pianos now come equipped with QRSâ€™s latest connected systems. In spite of their beauty, the company says, these pianos are also appropriate for school and commercial applications. The Signature models have cabinet designs that offer lots of detail for the money and coordinate with major furniture trends. These pianos feature premium Renner hammers, RÃ¶slau strings, maple and mahogany rims, solid brass hardware, Bolduc tapered soundboards of solid spruce, sand-cast plates, and advanced low-tension scales. The Signature Series also comes in both vertical and grand models. The Heritage Series is a popularly priced line of verticals and grands with a Storytone II soundboardâ€”Story & Clarkâ€™s name for a veneer-laminated, all-spruce soundboard. Story & Clark offers two series of pianos, each series including verticals and grands made to its specifications by various Asian manufacturers. of old.) QRS, historically the nationâ€™s major source of music rolls for traditional player pianos, now manufactures an electronic player-piano system, called PNOmation, that can be retrofitted into any piano (see â€œ Buying an Electronic Player-Piano Systemâ€). (Ironically, QRS itself was founded in 1900 by Melville Clark, of the Story & Clark Piano Co. In 1993 Story & Clark was purchased by QRS Piano Rolls, Inc., now QRS Music Technologies, Inc.

Over the years, pianos were manufactured under a number of different names, including, in recent years, Story & Clark, Gulbransen, Hobart M.

The business settled in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 1901, where it remained, under various owners, until about 1990, when a new owner moved the company to its present location in Seneca, Pennsylvania. Hampton Story began making pianos in 1857 and was joined by Melville Clark in 1884. Pianos made by: various Asian manufacturers

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