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Estonia Piano Factory
The Estonia Piano Factory was founded in 1950 by Ernst Hiis in Tallinn, Estonia. The majority of Estonia pianos are now sold in the United States.
== History ==
Ernst Hiis formed his own company, E. A. Ihse, in 1903. In 1915, he sold his business and worked for other companies. In 1923, he became the leading expert and manager of the Astron piano company. The second world war stopped production of pianos in Estonia. The factories were destroyed. Only Ernst Hiis continued his grand piano production. In 1950, by the order of Joseph Stalin, based on The Peoples' Furniture Factory, the Tallinn Piano Factory was established, and the new piano was called Estonia.In April 1951, the first Estonia piano was presented to the State Board.〔Madis Kokla and Anatoly Stulov〕 From 1950 to 1990 the company was state-owned and made two grand piano models (190 cm and 273 cm) for distribution throughout the Soviet Union.
The company languished after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, and in 1993 the factory was privatized to its managers. After the factory's decline in the early 1990s with the collapse of the Soviet Union, the firm was revived by Indrek Laul, who invested in the company and introduced its products to the United States. In 1995 it was sold to Indrek Laul (at that time a doctoral piano student at the Juilliard School in New York), who took over control of the company.
Components and materials are now imported where appropriate, such as German Renner actions and hammers. In 2003 a new factory building was completed and opened.〔().〕
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