Piano in the 18th century Europe has a very prominent position, from two hundred years ago, China began piano manufacture.
In 1886, Shanghai started seeking enrichment plant is in the early days, in urgent need of a higher number of technical carpenters and painters, a chance, doing carpentry in the outer Ningbo Craftsman is the British discovered that he was called by the Chinese piano industry the "ancestral home" of MAO positive.
In 1890, workers from Ningbo to gradually increase production substantially. British companies seek profit in stealing technology of Chinese workers have learned own company, Shanghai appeared the first batch of national piano workshop (but early piano repair business based).
To the late 1920s, Shanghai violin manufacturers have 20, 13 of which organ factory, piano factory 7 (including repairs). China's modern piano manufacturing started in 1950 after the establishment of China. At that time the Beijing New China piano factory (Beijing Piano Factory's predecessor) in October 1950 created entirely by its own domestic production of the first upright piano.