#Nordheimer piano serial number search serial number#

Not shown is the keyboard and therefore not possible to determine if the original ivory and ebony is still intact. A new hammer set and damper felt plates can be seen. The copper bass string set looks recent and so does the treble wire. This one has had some restorative work completed. This instrument is built in an open pin block style with a Вѕ plate assembly full 7.3 octave keyboard, two pedal set.

#Nordheimer piano serial number search serial number#

The Gerhard Heintzman shown in the photo set is serial number 3784 and has a build date of mid-1893. Sometimes writings in copperplate are difficult to read. purchased the assets and ran the name until 1928. From the period of 1886-1890 there was a company called the Lansdowne Piano Company that involved many of the big players in the early Canadian piano market Gerhard Heintzman, Albert and Samuel Nordheimer, (Nordheimer Piano Co.) Tom Mason and Vincent Risch (Mason & Risch Piano Co.) and Octavius Newcombe (Newcombe Piano Co.) So the Lansdowne instrument had quite the pedigree.Д¬lose to forty thousand instruments were produced by Gerhard before his death in 1926. Several important patents were granted to Gerhard from 1882-1900. This is why much of his cabinet work has a high degree of craftsmanship and detail. He was originally a cabinet maker that crossed over to making pianos. Not much is known about Gerhard even by the remaining Heintzman family members that I know. Gerhard, born in 1845 was the nephew of Theodore Heintzman the founder of the Heintzman Company of Canada.

This is not a Heintzman product but a Gerhard Heintzman.