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Petrof

Petrof is a Czech piano maker. The company was founded in 1864 in Hradec Kralove by Antonin Petrof (d.1915) who had studied piano making in Vienna.

History

1857 - The company founder Antonin Petrof goes to Vienna to learn how to build grand pianos

1864 - Hradec Kralove - building of the first concert grand piano

1865 - Antonin Petrof transforms his father's joinery workshop into a piano maker's workshop

1874 - The company moves to a new property in the direction of Brno

1881 - The company starts keyboard production and the construction of action

1884 - The construction of a saw mill

1894 - Start exporting instruments abroad

1895 - Subsidiary in Temesvar in Hungary opened

1908 - The company becomes a limited company. Not only the founder Antonin Petrof, but also his sons Jan, Antonin and from 1914 the youngest Vladimir (2nd generation) work for the company.

1915 - Antonin Petrof and his wife Marie, the company confidential clerk die

1928 - Petrof together with the significant American manufacturer STEINWAY open a subsidiary in London at Wigmore Street.

1932 - The company management enlarges the company administration with the 3rd Petrof generation: Dimitrij, Eduard and Eugena

1948 - Nationalization - the national company Tovarny na piana a varhany (Piano and organ factories) with a registered office at Hradec Kralove is established; the PETROF brand is further used

1954 - Development department for upright pianos and grand pianos is established.

1991 - The Petrof family returns to the factory - Ing. Jan Petrof (4th generation) after 40 years of totalitarian regime - Start of privatization process

1994 - New modern research centre with own big-capacity free-field measuring chamber, biggest of its kind in the Czech republic, opened

1997 - Tovarna na piana, a. s. established in Hradec Kralove

1999 - 135th anniversary of establishment of Petrof company

2001 - Petrof, spol. s r. o. - the factory passed fully into the hands of the Petrof family, 5th generation enters

2004 - Zuzana Ceralova Petrofova becomes president of the company - 5th generation

2005 - Zuzana Ceralova Petrofova - appointed president of European Federation of Music Instrument Manufacturers - CAFIM

Taken from Wikipedia

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