The instruments were primarily sold door-to-door by travelling musical salesmen from the early 1880s until 1965. The Oscar Schmidt Company was formally incorporated in 1911 and at the company's peak in the early 1920s, with the company operating manufacturing facilities in five cities. Music Corporation, continues to manufacture autoharps and ukuleles.įounded by Oscar and Otto Schmidt in Jersey City, New Jersey in 1871, the company applied for dozens of patents in musical instruments and related equipment. The Oscar Schmidt Company (also selling under the names "Oscar Schmidt Lap-Harp and Zither Company," "Oscar Schmidt Musical House," and "Oscar Schmidt International") designed and manufactured numerous models of parlour instruments including lap harps, autoharps, germania harps, chord zithers, regent zithers, and ukelins.
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