CABLE-NELSON
PIANO CO.
Owned and controlled by
the Everett Piano Company, South Haven, Michigan, (listed in this section).
Cable-Nelson is the low-priced companion line to the Everett. Since 1905, over a
quarter of a million Cable-Nelson pianos, bearing one of the most respected
names in American piano manufacturing have been produced in the large Everett
factory on the shore of Lake Michigan.
Historically, the story
of the origin of Cable-Nelson begins in Chicago in 1903 when Fayette S. Cable, a
distinguished leader in the piano industry at the turn of the century, purchased
two well established Chicago piano companies: the Lakeside Piano Company and the
Sweetland Piano Company. These were merged into the Fayette S. Cable Company.
Cable joined forces with
H. P. Nelson in 1905 to form the Cable-Nelson Piano Company. Messrs. Cable and
Nelson, widely planning for the future of the company, sought to locate it in a
fine, smaller community where the tradition of building outstanding pianos could
be generated among the local working force and the standards of quality and
perfection in their concept of manufacture could be insured. After surveying
numerous mid-western localities, they chose South Haven which had ideal
industrial facilities. From the very inception of the Cable-Nelson Company,
Fayette S. Cable set the course of the company's operation in the direction of
producing exceptionally fine pianos made of carefully selected materials and
crafted with superior workmanship. And, starting out in a new manufacturing
plant designed and built for the express purpose of making pianos, Cable rapidly
proved his theory that the musical public would quickly recognize the design,
tone and durability of Cable-Nelson pianos.
Historically, the story
of the origin of Cable-Nelson begins in Chicago in 1903 when Fayette S. Cable, a
distinguished leader in the piano industry at the turn of the century, purchased
two well established Chicago piano companies: the Lakeside Piano Company and the
Sweetland Piano Company. These were merged into the Fayette S. Cable Company.
Cable joined forces with
H. P. Nelson in 1905 to form the Cable-Nelson Piano Company. Messrs. Cable and
Nelson, widely planning for the future of the company, sought to locate it in a
fine, smaller community where the tradition of building outstanding pianos could
be generated among the local working force and the standards of quality and
perfection in their concept of manufacture could be insured. After surveying
numerous mid-western localities, they chose South Haven which had ideal
industrial facilities. From the very inception of the Cable-Nelson Company,
Fayette S. Cable set the course of the company's operation in the direction of
producing exceptionally fine pianos made of carefully selected materials and
crafted with superior workmanship. And, starting out in a new manufacturing
plant designed and built for the express purpose of making pianos, Cable rapidly
proved his theory that the musical public would quickly recognize the design,
tone and durability of Cable-Nelson pianos.
For the next two decades,
the company prospered and produced fine grand and upright pianos that became
proud possessions in homes all over the nation. In 1926, the Cable-Nelson Piano
Company merged its plant, facilities and piano making with one of the greatest
names in the American music industry, the Everett Piano Company, founded in
Boston in 1883. When the two companies joined forces, the principle of product
dependability at low cost was preserved in the Cable-Nelson line of pianos. And,
through all of its history, the Cable-Nelson has represented one of this
country's highest grades of pianos designed and built to be sold at a modest
price to bring an excellent musical instrument to American families.
Cable-Nelson cases are designed by William H. Cliagman of Grand Rapids, one of
America 5 most noted furniture designers. From his drawing board in the center
of the greatest furniture producing area of the country, Cliagman works in close
association with the production engineering specialists at the South Haven plant.
His objective always is freshness of design, together with lasting good taste
and dignity. The Cable-Nelson is available in a variety of contemporary styles
and light-to-dark finishes.
Cable-Nelson
was a name so well established that it was to become the first rank of the piano
industry on the strength of the excellence of its product and the high standard
of its business policy. There was a wide and constant growing demand on the part
of the average piano buyer for a thoroughly high-grade and player-piano of real
musical excellence. This demand to which the Cable-Nelson Piano Co. had
addressed itself from the very beginning of its career, both to supply it and to
foster it. Its motto is "A real piano and a fair price." The remarkable growth
of the company bears witnesses to the soundness of its policy and its success in
carrying it out. Its instruments were distinguished by their fine tone quality,
excellent work of case design and finish. Cable-Nelson pianos embodied the
characteristics of best standards in the art of player construction. A piano-player
mechanism is most responsive and musically adequate, and the tone quality just
right for the best player results. The Cable-Nelson factory is one of the most
attractively located in the trade, and the wonderful efficiency of its
organization and equipment is the cause of general comment. The high financial
and commercial standing of the company and the reputation and experiences of its
officers add to the distinction of the excellent and reliable instrument. |
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