Comments on: Factory visit: Feurich pianos http://perarts.com/blog/2009/12/factory-visit-feurich-pianos/ The world of high end pianos Tue, 18 May 2010 07:31:00 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Eric http://perarts.com/blog/2009/12/factory-visit-feurich-pianos/comment-page-1/#comment-4040 Eric Fri, 01 Jan 2010 15:23:51 +0000 http://perarts.com/blog/?p=719#comment-4040 Thanks for the comment Carl. A number of the German makers have experimented with different ways of expanding their business, with different degrees of success. My impression is that Feurich tried some, got knocked around a bit, and are returning to their roots. That's a welcome move to me. Thanks for the comment Carl. A number of the German makers have experimented with different ways of expanding their business, with different degrees of success. My impression is that Feurich tried some, got knocked around a bit, and are returning to their roots. That’s a welcome move to me.

]]> By: carl rafferty http://perarts.com/blog/2009/12/factory-visit-feurich-pianos/comment-page-1/#comment-4039 carl rafferty Fri, 01 Jan 2010 14:22:58 +0000 http://perarts.com/blog/?p=719#comment-4039 Dear Eric, Following our brief phone chat today I googled you, and happily landed on this site. As well as my promotional work I was a "high end" piano guy in Australia for a long time, though now I limit myself to owning nice pianos, and hiring them for concert artists. A few things further about Feurich: In the late 50s the family set up a factory in Brunswick under the parent company name Euterpe (after the muse). They made the pianos as Feurich, Hoffman, Haegele and Euterpe. The quality was variable...problematic through to marvellous. Maybe 10 or 15 years ago they sold the Hoffman name to bechstein, who use this name on pianos from the old Zimmerman factory and since the samick takeover of bechstein they used the hoffman name on pianos from the czech republic. I don't really know the status of these brands at the moment. We had a few Ed Seilers brought into Australia recently. Very fine. Also the Schimmells we see are outstanding. Bosebdorfer is baraely represented here (there is a dealer but in Adelaide which is like idaho) so not much action there. A couple of very cheap imperials in sydney at the moment, though better to wait for a stronger greenback before they are worth taking to the US. If you are interested I will keep you posted about high end piano stuff as I encounter it. Best wishes from Australia Carl rafferty Dear Eric,

Following our brief phone chat today I googled you, and happily landed on this site. As well as my promotional work I was a “high end” piano guy in Australia for a long time, though now I limit myself to owning nice pianos, and hiring them for concert artists.

A few things further about Feurich:

In the late 50s the family set up a factory in Brunswick under the parent company name Euterpe (after the muse). They made the pianos as Feurich, Hoffman, Haegele and Euterpe. The quality was variable…problematic through to marvellous.

Maybe 10 or 15 years ago they sold the Hoffman name to bechstein, who use this name on pianos from the old Zimmerman factory and since the samick takeover of bechstein they used the hoffman name on pianos from the czech republic. I don’t really know the status of these brands at the moment.

We had a few Ed Seilers brought into Australia recently. Very fine. Also the Schimmells we see are outstanding. Bosebdorfer is baraely represented here (there is a dealer but in Adelaide which is like idaho) so not much action there.

A couple of very cheap imperials in sydney at the moment, though better to wait for a stronger greenback before they are worth taking to the US.

If you are interested I will keep you posted about high end piano stuff as I encounter it.

Best wishes from Australia

Carl rafferty

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