Starr Piano Company

ID: 2267 ~ Source: Courtesy of Indiana Historical Society ~ Creator: Nicholson & Bro. Pub. ~ Date: ca 1910s

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A view of the Starr Piano complex. The piles of wood stacked in front of the buildings were destined to become pianos and phonograph cabinets.

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The Starr Piano Company

By Sue King, Morrisson-Reeves Library & Ariana Cieslak

By the 1870s, more business flowed toward Richmond, Indiana. In 1872, George Trayser, a renowned piano maker from Germany who had previously maintained factories in Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio, and had been awarded several U.S. patents for his…