Pease was a New York piano maker that traced its start to C. D. Pease & Co., established in 1844, and stayed in the hands of the founder's descendants for decades. In the 1870s its factory was on West 43rd Street, and by the 1920s it was on Leggett Avenue in the Bronx. The family also ran the lower-priced Wilbur brand, founded in 1895.