1868 in Stuttgart), the firm was purchased and renamed in June 1901 by Julius Winter (b.
[1] In 1903, the company opened a factory on Southern Boulevard in The Bronx borough of New York City.
[1] Founded in the last decades of the Golden Age of the Piano, when the instrument had no competition from radio, recorded music, and the automobile, Winter & Co. outlived the vast majority of its contemporary pianomakers, and acquired several of them that fell on hard times.
Among these were Chicago-based The Cable Company in 1943, once the country's largest maker of reed organs; the Ivers and Pond Piano Company of Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1945; Kranich and Bach in 1946;[2] and Hardman Peck in 1953.
[5] In the 1960s, Winter & Co. was merged with Aeolian-American pianomaking firm, becoming the Aeolian Company.