Pearl River History

Pearl River Piano Group owns the largest piano factory in the world, located in Guangzhou, China, the Pearl River factory shipped approximately 83,000 pianos around the globe in 2007, resulting in the brand becoming the world’s most selected acoustic piano by unit volume.  With a capacity to produce over 100,000 pianos a year Pearl River now exports to more than 80 countries all over the world.;today, testimony to the strength of the thriving Australian piano industry of the day. IndeedPearl River started with nothing in 1999 and now has the country’s largest dealer network and is the fastest-growing piano company in the U.S. , Canada and Australia. It’s a piano success story that began in 1956 with a tiny piano company producing four upright pianos a month. 

Many factors have contributed to the dramatic growth of Pearl River over the last 50 years:
“… China’s liberalised economic policies, a Chinese tradition of manufacturing expertise, a loyal and skilled work force, extremely favourable overall production costs. …”

Pearl River set out to manufacture every element of his pianos. The range of trades he incorporated into the factory is astonishing: brass and iron foundries – ‘incorporated into only one other piano factory in the world’; power houses; timber yards, stores, mills, joinery works, cabinet departments, veneer works; paint and pattern shops, machine and electro-plating departments; keyboard action-making and fitting, tuning, intonating; drying kilns,slow-fall system,Designed by L.Thomma, dust-proof polishing rooms and experimental laboratories.