Latham, NY Piano Store
Latham and Hilton Piano Center belong to the same town. Both sit inside the Town of Colonie, which makes this store the neighborhood piano shop for a hamlet of roughly 13,700 people. The Hilton family has been in business since 1992, Bob Hilton runs it today, and Latham families who want a piano store in Latham, NY do not have to leave Colonie to find one.
We are inside Colonie Center mall at 442 Colonie Center in Albany. Hilton Piano Center stocks digital keyboards, digital pianos, acoustic uprights and grands, and player pianos, so a first-time buyer and a serious player can both find something to try. Stop in any day, or call (518) 362-7920 to ask about a specific model before you head over.
From Latham Circle, where US 9 and NY 2 meet, the store is about 5 miles away. Starting at the Shoppes at Latham Circle on New Loudon Road, plan on about 11 minutes. Both figures are approximate and assume no traffic, so add a few minutes at rush hour.
Buying is only part of what happens here. The shop handles new and used piano sales, tuning and repair, piano moving, rentals, and lessons. Players with an old acoustic can have it converted with a PianoDisc or QRS system, and a silent piano suits a house where practice time collides with everyone else's evening. We design piano labs for schools and churches as well. Latham is served by the North Colonie Central School District, and Shaker High School on Watervliet-Shaker Road is the district's only high school, with concert band, orchestra, chorus, jazz band and the Counterpoint Strings among its groups.
Hilton Piano Center is the Capital Region’s only authorized Yamaha piano dealer, and an authorized Roland and Casio dealer. Our showroom also has Baldwin and Hallet Davis acoustics, Dynatone digital pianos and QRS player systems, with Steinway, Kawai and Yamaha pianos arriving as used inventory now and then.
Contact the store:
Hilton Piano Center LLC
442 Colonie Center
Albany, NY 12205
518-362-7920
Questions can also go through our contact form. Mention your Latham ZIP code, 12110, and let us know whether you are shopping for yourself, a student, or a congregation.
About Latham:
Latham is a hamlet and census-designated place in the Town of Colonie, Albany County, not an incorporated village. The crossroads that became Latham carried several names before the current one: Yearsley's, Van Vranken's, Town House Corners and Latham's Corners. The name that stuck came from hotel owner William G. Latham, and his son James kept the hotel going until his death on August 14, 1933.
The roads came first. Jonas Yearsley is recorded here in 1785 and later built the first hotel near the crossing. In 1802 the Troy and Schenectady Turnpike was laid across Old Loudon Road, and the hamlet still centers on Troy-Schenectady Road and Old Loudon Road, long from north to south and narrow from east to west.
Shopping gave Latham its modern identity. The Latham Circle Mall started in 1957 as the open-air Latham Corners Shopping Center, was enclosed in 1977, closed in 2013 and was demolished by March 2015. The site became the Shoppes at Latham Circle, where Walmart opened first in July 2015. You can read the full story of the Latham Circle Mall online.
Today Latham is a dense suburb north of Albany. US 9, I-87, NY 7 and NY 2 all run through it, and the 2020 census counted 13,680 residents. For more on the hamlet's history, see its Wikipedia page.