Vermont Piano Buyers: Hilton Piano Center
For piano shoppers in southern and western Vermont, the Capital Region is a straightforward drive across the state line. Hilton Piano Center has sold pianos in Albany since 1992, and Bob Hilton still runs the family-owned store. Delivery is free to Bennington County and Rutland County, Vermont, so a Vermont buyer only has to make the one trip to choose the instrument.
The showroom has digital keyboards, digital pianos, upright and grand pianos, and player pianos set out so you can play one after another and hear the differences. You will find us inside Colonie Center mall at 442 Colonie Center in Albany. Call (518) 362-7920 before you set out and we can tell you what is on the floor.
Two routes cover most of southern and western Vermont. From Bennington, VT 9 (the Molly Stark Trail) crosses the line and becomes NY 7 through Hoosick and Troy, then the Alternate Route 7 freeway meets I-87 at Latham, next to Colonie. US 7, the Ethan Allen Highway, ties Manchester and Rutland County back to Bennington, and from Rutland itself US 4 runs west to I-87. Bennington is about an hour from the store and Rutland about 2 hours 15 minutes, both approximate.
Selling is only part of what we do. We tune and repair pianos, move and deliver them, rent them, and give lessons to beginners and returning players. An older upright can get a PianoDisc or QRS player system, and a silent piano suits a house where practice has to stay quiet. We also build piano labs for schools and churches. Bennington County has 17 towns and Rutland County is the second most populous in Vermont, so the deliveries cover a lot of ground.
Hilton Piano Center is the Capital Region’s only authorized Yamaha piano dealer, and an authorized Roland and Casio dealer. The new inventory also includes Baldwin, Hallet Davis and Dynatone, and QRS systems for players, while the used side brings in Steinway, Kawai and Yamaha pianos as they come available.
Contact the store:
Hilton Piano Center LLC
442 Colonie Center
Albany, NY 12205
518-362-7920
Prefer to write? Use the contact form and mention that you live in Bennington County or Rutland County for free delivery. Addresses outside those counties can request a price on the freight quote form. Looking at a particular town? See our pages for Bennington and Rutland.
Music in Vermont:
Vermont is small, but it takes music seriously. The Vermont Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1934 in Woodstock by conductor Alan Carter and is now headquartered in Burlington. It was built as a touring orchestra, and between 1984 and 1986 it played in all 251 Vermont cities and towns. It averages 35 to 40 concerts a year. You can read more on Wikipedia.
Marlboro Music, in Marlboro on VT 9, began in 1951 when Rudolf Serkin, Adolf and Hermann Busch, and Marcel, Blanche and Louis Moyse founded it. Serkin was a pianist, so the piano has been part of that summer community from the beginning. More than 2,000 musicians have passed through it, according to the festival's own history page.
Bennington County is the only Vermont county with two shire towns, Bennington and Manchester, and Southern Vermont Arts Center in Manchester sits on the former Yester House estate, which the Southern Vermont Artists bought in 1950. It has an open-air performance pavilion. Bennington has its own stage life through Oldcastle Theatre Company and the Sage City Symphony.
Rutland County adds the restored Paramount Theatre in Rutland and the Castleton University campus in Castleton.