$200–$300 to pitch-raise and tune the piano. Costs can double for shipping over greater distances and/or to more challenging destinations, such as a building with many steps, or to an upper floor. $200–$500 to move an upright piano, or $300–$600 to move a grand, within a 25-mile radius and to a home with no more than three or four steps. Because people tend to sell when moving, time pressure is involved - as the moving date approaches, often the asking price must be cut drastically.įor buyers on a limited budget, the costs involved in moving a piano to its new location and getting it in good playing condition after the move are relatively high, leaving them with less to pay you for the piano itself. The Internet, especially websites such as Craigslist and eBay, makes it easier than ever for sellers to advertise at little or no cost. In many cases, these instruments were inherited from the boomers’ own parents and are now 50 or more years old. Baby boomers, retiring and downsizing, are flooding the market with the pianos their kids took lessons on. Digital pianos have become so advanced in tone and touch, and so competitive in price, that for many on a limited budget, a new digital piano may be a better buy than a used acoustic. Globalization and the computerization of manufacturing have made inexpensive, new, high-quality consumer-grade pianos from China and Indonesia abundantly available, leaving lower-quality used instruments from previous eras with little value. Contrary to figures in the Pierce Piano Atlas, production of Doherty pianos ceased in the early 1930s. Gibbings, son of the one-time partner John Gibbings, served as plant superintendent at Clinton. Though head offices were moved to London, Ont, factories remained in Clinton and increased their production to 2500 instruments a year. Bought in 1920 by Sherlock-Manning (Sherlock and Manning were former Doherty employees) it continued to operate under its own name. With Doherty's retirement in 1917, the firm was reorganized as Doherty Pianos Ltd under the control of a group of businessmen, and thenceforth it manufactured player, Doherty, and Clinton pianos, reed organs, benches, and stools. In 1915 the firm advertised that over 70,000 Doherty instruments were in use 'throughout the civilized world' although their export was primarily to England, Scotland, Australia, and New Zealand The same year Doherty closed its retail operations, planning to extend its wholesale trade. In 1913 a grand piano was introduced and also a new standard design, the 'Clinton' line. The firm's mainstays were its piano and the Doherty Attachable Player (which converted any style or make of standard piano into a player piano). Retail branches were established after about 1908, in Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton, and, briefly, Regina. 'Organ' was dropped from the name in 1913, and production seems to have been curtailed ca 1917. The firm produced about 400 organs a month and increased its piano production to 1500 annually during the first 10 years. Doherty's company made its first pianos in 1907 and was incorporated as the W. Doherty was joined in partnership ca 1880-90 by John Gibbings. 
In 1875 a large factory was built where 100 reed organs were produced monthly The factory burned down in 1898 and was rebuilt in time to ship organs to the 1898 CNE. Doherty & Co, he began his business in 1868 above a store on the main street. Manufacturing firm founded in 1875 in Clinton, Ont, by William Doherty (b, d Clinton ), a furniture dealer and Bell Organ representative.
Doherty Piano and Organ Co Ltd 1875-1913).
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