Walter_Piano_Company
Walter Piano Company, Inc. (also known as Charles R. Walter Piano Company) is an American piano-manufacturing company in Elkhart, Indiana. Run by the Walter family, to which many of the workers belong,[1][2] the company hand-crafts its pianos in an Elkhart factory.[3]
In 1969, Charles Walter, formerly the head of Piano Design and Developmental Engineering at C.G. Conn,[4] bought the Janssen piano name from Conn. He founded a company to make pianos under the Janssen name.[5] In 1975, Walter started his own line of console and studio upright pianos. In 1991, the company ceased to produce pianos under the Janssen brand. In 1997, the company introduced a grand piano under its own brand.[5]
In 2023, Walter Piano's now defunct showroom has a Roland sign on a wall.
