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
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