Kimball also made upright pianos in 110 cm and 120 cm sizes. In Vienna, the Bösendorfer division made concert grand pianos as large as 290 cm: the Imperial Bösendorfer. Grand pianos from Kimball ranged from compact 135 cm models to larger 201 cm models. An average day saw 250 pianos and 150 electronic organs shipped from the West Baden Springs factory. During its peak years in the 1960s and 1970s Kimball produced some 100,000 pianos and organs annually. By 1969, Kimball had returned to its former position as the world's largest piano maker. bought the prestigious Austrian piano maker Bösendorfer. The first Indiana-made pianos were plagued with quality problems, but the issues were addressed and the pianos improved. In 1961 Jasper moved its Kimball piano manufacturing to West Baden Springs 42 km northeast of the town of Jasper, Indiana. Kimball Company as a wholly owned subsidiary. In 1959, Jasper, Inc., a maker of television cabinets, kitchen cabinets, and office furniture purchased the W. Kimball had slipped from being the world's largest piano maker to the seventh largest, and it was nearly insolvent. In the mid-1950s, Kimball built a luxurious new factory in the Chicago suburb of Melrose Park, Illinois, but the factory's high costs, its poor performance, and flagging sales brought the company into grave financial crisis.
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After the war, piano production resumed but a series of poor financial decisions by W.W.
During World War II, Kimball produced aircraft parts for major military airplane manufacturers such as Boeing, Douglas and Lockheed. Bechstein Pianofortefabrik, and these men introduced improvements to the piano line. Kimball hired veterans piano makers from Steinway & Sons and C. In 1887, Kimball began building a five-story factory for making its own pianos, and the next year produced 500 instruments of alternate quality. Soon, the factory was producing 15,000 organs a year the world's largest organ maker. In 1882, the Kimball company was incorporated, and a factory was built to produce reed organs.