York, as "Makers of the Melodigrand piano with specially constructed sounding board designed to prevent splitting." Presto-Times reported in mid-1931 that "Sam Lindeman, long connected with the manufacture of Melodigrand pianos at New York, and son of the founder of S. G. Lindeman & Son, Inc., is now connected with the municipal department of the city of Mount Vernon, N. Y." and the firm was listed as one of nine piano manufacturing concerns in "liquidation, reorganization or in the hands of creditors" in early 1932. Over seventy other firms were listed as no longer manufacturing and out of business. Lester, American Piano and Aeolian In 1931, citing "increased activities in other lines being produced in the Norwalk factory", A. B. Chase-Emerson announced that arrangements had been made for their A. B. Chase, Emerson, and Lindeman & Sons pianos to be manufactured by a new division of the Lester Piano Company, of Philadelphia. The American Piano Corporation filed to use the Lindeman & Sons trademark in 1941, and it was assigned with the company's holdings to the Winter-controlled Aeolian-American Corporation in 1959, which owned the name until Aeolian's bankruptcy in 1985. Wurlitzer and Baldwin The name passed from Wurlitzer to Gibson and Baldwin between 2000 and 2002, although in 2002 a typed drawing filed by Gibson Piano Ventures, Inc. of Nashville, Tennessee was refused on the grounds it was not sufficiently descriptive or unique. The Lindeman & Sons trademark was withdrawn by them in 2005. Burgett Brothers The final owners of the Lindeman & Sons trademark, Burgett Brothers, Inc., of Haverhill, Massachusetts successfully filed to use the name several months later. Burgett Bros. are owners of Mason & Hamlin and PianoDisk, and also control the Sohmer & Co., Wm. Knabe & Co., Mathushek, and Wessell, Nickel & Gross trademarks. They cancelled the trademark at the end of 2013 References "Der aelteste deutsche Pianofabrikant in Amerika" Der Deutsche Pionier, Deutsche Pionier-Verein, Cincinnati, vol. 7 no.4 end of June, 1875 p. 132-136, (translated in Clifford N. Smith, Early 19th Century German Settlers, German-American Genealogical Research Monograph no. 20, 1984) Edwards, Richard, ed. "Lindeman & Sons" New York's Great Industries, Historical Publishing Co., New York 1884 Dolge, Alfred. Pianos and their Makers, Covina Publishing Co., Covina, CA. 1911 Lindeman, William