Bentley piano price1/5/2023 ![]() A plaque, proudly displayed at the factory, commemorates the visit of HM King George III, Queen Charlotte, and the three eldest princesses in 1788. A mill stood on the site in 1605 and the still extant early deeds record fulling and grain mills with dye-houses nearby. In 1911 Douglas Grover moved his fledgling business to a well-known landmark in the Cotswolds, Woodchester Mills near Stroud. ![]() A Grover & Grover from 1872 stands in the Geffrye Museum in Shoreditch. ![]() ![]() The earliest references date this business to 1830, and at its peak the annual output exceeded 500 instruments. In 1906 the enterprise which was to become the Bentley Piano Company was founded in London by Douglas Grover, already the third generation of Grover piano makers, as his father and grandfather also produced Grover & Grover pianos. ![]()
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