Jimmie Smith

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Oral History Information

Interview Date
Job Title
Former Vice President
Company Name
Baldwin Piano Company

Jimmie Smith designed and built the Trumann, Arkansas, Baldwin Piano factory in the early 1980s after working in the company’s Greenwood, Mississippi, plant for several years. The Trumann plant was state of the art for the time and included many automated processes fairly new to the piano industry at the time. Jimmie oversaw the plant in Trumann as well as the Holly Spring’s Wurlitzer plant when Baldwin purchased the company in 1988. Several industry plant designers have recognized the Trumann factory design as an influence in the design and construction of piano plants in Asia and in the United States.