Schirmer & Son
Schirmer & Son is a piano brand under T & B Piano GmbH, manufacturer in Kloster Lehnin, Germany.
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Teodor Betting, The founder of the SCHIRMER & SON, was born in 1827 in Emmerich, Rhineland, Germany.
He followed his adoptive father, Glandt Schirmer to learn about the playing of the organ and the manufacture of the piano. Under the strict teaching and careful cultivation of the adoptive father, Teodor became a qualified piano maker. The first SCHIRMER &SON piano was made in 1855 by Teodor and Glandt Schirmer in Lepzig. Soon, Teodor became Fryderyk Hint’s partner, a piano maker from Kalisz. He worked with Blüthner in Leipzig, Ed. Seiler in Liegnitz (then Prussia; present-day Legnica, Poland), as well as in Breslau (then Prussia; present-day Wrocław, Poland) and St. Petersburg. In 1887, Teodor set up his own company called T.B. &Comp, producing uprights, grands, and reed organs. The headquartered of the manufactory set up in Sukiennicza street (Dreher’s house), and moved to Nawodna street (Mrs Szmidt’s house) on 8 July 1888 and then to Nowa 609a (T. Betting’s house). After the founder’s death, the company was run by his son, Rudolf Teodor, and when the latter passed away (1909), by Teodor’s another son, Juliusz Paweł. Destroyed in World War I, the factory moved to Leszno Wielkopolskie in 1921, where it operated as Teodor Betting i Ska (T.B. & Comp. a partnership with Jadwiga May), After Juliusz’s death in 1935, the firm was taken over by Teodor’s grandson, Teodor Juliusz, and in 1971 by his greatgrandson Janusz.
The factory was first equipped with a steam engine, in 1902 it acquired a 8hp gas engine, and subsequently – a 12-hp electric engine. By 1939, it had produced c. 18 000 instruments in total. After 1930 the firm had a branch in Częstochowa. Betting’s instruments won golden medals at fairs in Paris (1905), Antwerp (1906), and Brussels (1930).
After World War II the company’s operations were limited to repairs, tuning, and maintenance. It was not until 1951 that the company launched piano production again in Lepzig and Legnica. It was employing 250 people, having produced 5000 pianos per year. Most were exported to European, also sold to the USA, Russia and Australia.
In 1992, a member of the sixth generation of the Betting family continue to managing the company, Due to years of debt problems, Eventually, they sold Th. Betting to Legnica piano company, only hold the SCHIRMER & SON, the new manufacture would employ German professionals who had stayed in town, SCHIRMER & SON piano are not Mass-produced products, each SCHIRMER & SON piano are handcrafted by traditional German crafts. Many of SCHIRMER & SON’s piano have survived in private and museum collections.
Now, a majority interest was purchased by Moonlight Music Group. —a Chongqing based musical instruments company in P.R. China
For a number of years, SCHIRMER & SON has organized its model lineup into two principal categories, The Konzert series (Model name beginning with K, only grand piano) and Master series (Model name beginning with M). The SCHIRMER & SON Konzert piano is a higher-end instrument, formerly made in Estonia under OEM agreements, and now made in Germany in its own factory. The company says that the pianos are entirely handcrafted in Germany from regionally sourced woods and other components, including Strunz soundboards, Renner actions, Abel hammers, Laukhuff keyboards, Röslau and Heller strings, Dehonit pinblocks, and Klinke bridge and tuning pins. All have three pedals, including sostenuto, and come with a slow-close fallboard and an adjustable artist bench. The SCHIRMER & SON Master series pianos are even more affordable, uses Premium wood action, Renner or Abel hammers, and a Bolduc (Canadian) solid spruce soundboard and a slow-close fallboard.
In 2019, SCHIRMER & SON introduced a new line called Signature series (Model name beginning with CS-M), it’s a more modestly priced instrument from China whose design is based on the Traditional Master series with “global sourcing and global manufacturing,” The Signature series equipped with WWF felt, Rößlau strings, solid spruce keyboard and Sitka soundboard.
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