News about the terrible fire at Weaver Organ and Piano Co.'s former plant rightly overshadowed the contributions past skilled musical instrument makers made to York County. But it's appropriate to ...

To promote York, Pa.'s, Weaver Organ and Piano Co., marketers turned to poetry, of a sort. The company went out of business in the late 1950s, but its organs and pianos have become collectors items.

The National Association of Piano Dealers reported 364,545 sales of new instruments in the United States in 1909. That was four times the number of automobiles manufactured in the country that same ...