The word Samick means “three benefits” – symbols for the company, the consumer, and the country.Īvailable Finishes: Polished Ebony, Mahogany, Walnut, Satin Ebony. Presently they are one of the largest piano manufacturers in the world and market under the names of Knabe, Pramberger, Seiler, Samick and Kohler & Campbell. By 1964, the company had grown considerably and started exporting internationally. History: Started by Hyo Ick Lee in 1958, the Samick company started producing easy to build upright pianos for domestic market in Korea. Manufacturer of Pianos for sale - Samick Upright Piano, Young Chang CX 116 Piano, Kawai CX 4 and Yamaha M1A (Walnut Brown) offered by Tropicana World Trade Private Limited, Kochi, Kerala. Warranty: 10 years, parts and labor, transferable to future owners within the warranty period.Samick SIG57 Grand Piano Piano Name Samick Knabe, and Seiler - have met with very positive response. The musical design and performance of Samick’s upper-level pianos - J.P. Many of Samick’s Indonesian pianos are priced similarly to low-cost pianos from China. Climate control in the tropically situated Indonesian factory, and issues of action geometry, are also among the areas that have seen improvement. The company says that new CNC machinery installed in 2007 has revolutionized the consistency and accuracy of its manufacturing. Quality control in Samick’s South Korean and Indonesian factories has steadily improved over the years, and the Indonesian product is said to be almost as good as the Korean. This piano was built in Korea (not Indonesia) in 1988 and is in excellent condition.
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Tonally, it behaves much like a solid spruce soundboard, but won’t crack or lose its crown. Mint Samick Console, Decorator Piano is one of the finest we have had in our long history of selling pianos since 1971. With Klaus Fenner’s technical advice, Samick pioneered the use of this soundboard in early 1980, and it is now used by others as well.
Most Samicks also have veneer-laminated soundboards, which the company calls a “surface tension” soundboard - essentially, a solid spruce soundboard sandwiched by two very thin veneers. In the 1980s Klaus Fenner, a German piano designer, was hired to revise the Samick scale designs to make the pianos sound more “European.” Most Samick pianos now being made are based on these designs. SMC has a warehouse and office facility in Tennessee, at which it uncrates, inspects, tunes, regulates, and voices its upper-level pianos before shipping them to dealers. Pramberger instruments are still made in South Korea.
Facing an immense challenge in an impoverished and war-torn country, in the early 1960s, using largely imported parts, Lee began to build and sell a very limited quantity of vertical pianos. Ltd., Inchon, South Korea and Bogor, West Java, Indonesia In 1958, in South Korea, Hyo Ick Lee founded Samick as a Baldwin distributor. (For historical information about the original Kohler & Campbell piano company, see The Piano Book.) Most Samick-made pianos destined for the U.S. Pianos made by: Samick Musical Instrument Mfg. The Kohler & Campbell line has been discontinued in North America but is still sold elsewhere. A 200,000-square foot warehouse sits alongside our two-story Colonial-style office building. Samick no longer distributes pianos under the names Bernhard Steiner, Conover Cable, Hazelton Bros., Remington, or Sohmer & Co. SMC is located in Gallatin, TN, just a short distance from downtown Nashville. Knabe, and Seiler pianos in North America (see separate listings for Wm. Samick Music Corporation (SMC), the North American sales and marketing arm of the Korean company, distributes Samick, Pramberger, Wm. The company says that “Samick” means “three benefits” in Korean, symbolizing the management’s wish that the activities of the company benefit not only the company itself, but also its customers and the Korean economy. The Asian economic crisis of the late 1990s forced Samick into bankruptcy, from which the company emerged in 2002 it is now on a sound financial footing. Over the next several decades, Samick expanded into manufacturing guitars and other instruments and opened factories in China and Indonesia, where it shifted much of its production as Korean wages rose. As South Korea’s economy improved, Lee expanded his operation, and in 1964 began exporting to other parts of the world, eventually becoming one of the world’s largest piano manufacturers, now making most parts in-house. In 1958, in South Korea, Hyo Ick Lee founded Samick as a Baldwin distributor. Ltd., Inchon, South Korea and Bogor, West Java, Indonesia Pianos made by: Samick Musical Instrument Mfg.