制造商介绍

柯纳比的丰富历史开始于200多年前，威廉•柯纳比诞生的德国克罗伊茨贝格。柯纳比以学徒身份掌握了外壳和钢琴制造技术。移民到美国后，柯纳比到亨利•哈蒂（著名钢琴制造师）处上班。后来他和亨利•盖乐合作创立了柯纳比&盖乐钢琴公司。
柯纳比&盖乐在巴尔的摩市工厂制造高级三角和立式琴。1852年与爱德华•贝茨成为合作伙伴，柯纳比&盖乐更名为柯纳比&盖乐有限公司。1855年柯纳比创立了自己的公司－柯纳比有限公司，立志成为行业内首屈一指的钢琴制造商。
虽然经历烧毁两栋工厂的火灾，柯纳比还是从其他二十多家制造商竞争中脱颖而出获得马里兰学院展览的冠军。
1860年柯纳比在巴尔的摩市成立大规模工厂–占有两个城区、雇用人数超过三百。内战爆发时，公司往美国西部方向扩大市场。
        1864年威廉•柯纳比逝世时公司经营状况依然非常好，他把公司留给了两个儿子，欧内斯特和小威廉，他们延续了柯纳比钢琴的独特音质和精美外观。为了完成庞大的需求量开办了新工厂，在纽约和华盛顿分别开设了门市部。新世纪以来，柯纳比成为家喻户晓的钢琴制造商，顾客和演奏家们都非常喜欢。从最初开始，威廉•柯纳比承诺自己和公司会制造精美、高性能的乐器。年华似水，柯纳比成为美国钢琴公司、伊欧利亚有限公司和梅森•哈姆林的一部分。

目前，柯纳比属于全球最大的乐器公司——三益乐器有限公司。三益自豪地继续制造这些拥有独特音质和精美外观的钢琴。许多早期的立式和三角钢琴设计源于威廉•柯纳比，随着时间的流逝失去了原有的初衷，最近三益公司恢复了许多这些早期设计并且融合了赋有现代感设计的柯纳比钢琴。
The Knabe Piano story begins two hundred years ago in the village of Kreutzberg, Germany, with the birth of Wilhelm Knabe in 1803. After a formal education to prepare him for a professional career, he decided to apprentice himself to a German maker of pianofortes and develop the art of piano-making.
After learning his new trade at various German piano makers' shops, he migrated to the United States in 1833. Young Wilhelm changed his name to William and quickly found work with Henry Hartje's piano-making shop. At that time he began the study of the English language and American business conditions.
In 1837 he launched out on his own with a partner, Henry Gaehle, forming a firm of Knabe & Gahle. In 1854 William bought out his partner and changed the name of the firm to Wm. Knabe & Co.




Milestones in Knabe pianos include: Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky's concert on a Knabe piano officially opening Carnegie Hall, President Rutherford B. Hayes's installation of a Knabe in the White House's official residence, and in 1879, the Knabe was the first piano purchased for Japanese classrooms.
Through the years Wm. Knabe has been a part of the American Piano Company, Aeolian Corporation, Mason Hamlin, and now is the premium piano for of one of the world's largest musical instrument manufacturers, Samick Musical Instruments, Ltd.

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