Mason and Hamlin piano, the piano with a tension resonator
As one of the most favorite music instrument, piano has become very popular since last century. There are many piano manufacturers around the world competing to be the best piano maker in the history. Mason and Hamlin pianos also competing with other brands to obtain success era and here is the brief review of mason and Hamlin pianos.
Mason and Hamlin founded in Boston, Massachusetts in 1854 by Henry Mason and Emmons Hamlin. Henry Mason is the son of Lowell Mason, the American hymn composer and musical educator and Emmons Hamlin is a mechanic and inventor who worked for melodeon parkers Prince & Co in Buffalo, New York. Mason and Hamlin pianos produced for the first time in 1883. At that time they only built upright pianos featuring a patented method of tuning and maintenance string tension which marketed as the screw stringer feature.
During the future development of the Mason and Hamlin pianos, the screw stringer feature evolved into tension resonator feature which patented for all models of the Mason and Hamlin pianos. Today, the Mason and Hamlin pianos are very popular as modern pianos with the best string durability and for more information about tension resonator feature of the Mason and Hamlin pianos, please visit the official website in the internet.