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1900s

1900
- E. S. Votey, Aeolian Company, patents pneumatic piano player, the "Pianola"
- Baldwin wins grand prize at Paris Exposition

1901
Welte-Mignon invents a player-piano mechanism, Freiburg, Germany

1901
- Debussy: Suite pour le piano composed
- Ravel: Jeux d'eau composed
- Piano Manufacturers Association founded, later PMAI

1903
- Winter & Co. established, New York
- Rachmaninoff: Ten Preludes, Op. 23 published

1904
- American piano manufacturers make bonfire of square pianos, Atlantic City
- Chickening produced a quarter grand, said to be the smallest of its kind, it was 5-foot long, and only 50 inches wide.

1905
- Hupfeld makes the "Dea" reproducing-piano mechanism, near Leipzig
- The Juilliard School founded
- Octavius Beale started making pianos in New South Wales Australia

1906
Gulbransen Company established, Chicago

1908
- American Piano Co. founded, incorporates Chickering, Knabe, Weber, Haines Brothers, and others

1910
- Steinway & Sons moves its factory entirely from Manhattan to Astoria, Long Island
- Broadwood among the first British piano maker to make player pianos

1911
- Kemble piano company established, England

1913
- Aeolian Co. patents "Duo-Art Reproducing Piano," New York
- American Piano Co. makes "Ampico" player mechanism, New York

-British Piano Tuners Association founded as a Trade Union (Sir Henry Wood was President)

1919
156,000 pianos; 180,000 player pianos manufactured in U.S.

1924
- Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue premiered

1927
Kawai Company making pianos, Hamamatsu, Japan

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