Antique Sterling Cabinet Grand Piano (Upright Piano). Piano works but needs tune-up. Sterling established his firm as “The Birmingham Organ Company” in Birmingham, CT in 1866. The firm was reorganized as The Charles A. Sterling Organ Company in 1871. In 1873, the firm moved to Derby, CT and the name of the firm was changed to “The Sterling Organ Company”. In 1885 the firm began manufacturing pianos, and the name of the firm was changed to “The Sterling Company”. The Sterling Company was hugely successful, and the firm built as many as 7,000 organs annually by 1887! The Sterling Company built several different piano names including. After the Great Depression, Sterling merged with the. And the Sterling name was produced until the 1960s.