| Walter Piano Company, Inc | |
| Type: | Private |
| Industry: | Musical instruments |
| Founder: | Charles R. Walter |
| Location City: | Elkhart, Indiana |
| Location Country: | United States |
| Products: | Pianos |
| Homepage: | walterpiano.com/ |
Walter Piano Company, Inc. (also known as Charles R. Walter Piano Company) is an American piano-manufacturing company in Elkhart, Indiana. Run by the Walter family, to which many of the workers belong,[1] [2] the company hand-crafts its pianos in an Elkhart factory.[3]
In 1969, Charles Walter, formerly the head of Piano Design and Developmental Engineering at C.G. Conn,[4] bought the Janssen piano name from Conn. He founded a company to make pianos under the Janssen name.[5] In 1975, Walter started his own line of console and studio upright pianos. In 1991, the company ceased to produce pianos under the Janssen brand. In 1997, the company introduced a grand piano under its own brand.
As of 2020, the Charles R. Walter line of pianos consists of four models:[6]