Music for the Millions

In Music for the Millions, author Van Allen Bradley tells the story of a firm which, at the time of this book's original publication in 1962, had endured for 100 years. But the Kimball Piano and Organ Company accomplished more than simply surviving a century—it played a dominant role in the development of the industry of which it was a part. The company started as a piano dealership in Chicago in 1857 as W.W. Kimball and Company by William Wallace Kimball (1828-1904). In 1864, Kimball moved from