Ehrbar (fwd)

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>
> To all who wrote about the EHRBAR piano (and those who said "you have to ask
> someone old"..) Here is a little something.  When I lived in Vienna for a
> short
> time, awaiting my visa to the US in 1950/51,  I worked for the still existing
> Ehrbar company on the "Parkring". They still made some uprights and I
> installed
> dampers and other things. I also remember something even more noteworthy than
> the pianos and the Ehrbar company, the sales manager of the showroom was a
> gentleman by the name of Dvorak and he was an honest to goodness grandson of
> the
> famous composer Antonin Dvorak.
> Later -  maybe in 1988 or 1989 I visited Vienna and found out that the company
> does no longer exists  but located a small rebuilding shop named Ehrbar
> somewhere in "Mariahilf" (a part of Vienna) where there was still one old man
> who worked with Ehrbar for all his life, remembered me too and showed me
> around.
> By the way, in that shop I found, on it's side a # 7  Boesendorfer which by
> now
> probably has been rebuilt and sold.
> Ernie Juhn, RPT
>