Category:George Steck & Co.

James Grebe (2008). The George Steck Piano Company. Yesterday Once More Publications. Archived from the original on 2017-09-22.
" The George Steck Piano Company had a long history of solid, consistent pianos. ",
" Around 1837, at the Erard factory, a man named Carl Scheel from Cassel, Germany was employed through 1846. He left to begin his own piano making and hired a young man named George Steck who also hailed from Cassel to work for him. Steck was born on July13,1829. Before leaving Germany, Steck had absorbed the thorough knowledge from Scheel In 1853 Steck came to America and in 1857 started his own factory. By 1865, he opened Steck Hall in New York, so much had his fame spread and his bvusiness flourished. ",
" A little later he constructed a bigger hall on Fourteenth Str. For his growing business. Stecks’ main thrust was in scale design and it is said that many of his scale designs were copied blatantly. One of his boosters was the composer Richard Wagner. As a forward thinker, Steck incorporated his company and allotted shares of his stock to his employees in 1884. ... The last 10 years of his life was spent on trying to build a piano which would permanently stay in tune and his experiments toward the same are said to be most interesting. ... Steck died on 3/31/1897 and in 1904 the company was consolidated into Aeolian control until bankruptsy came in the late 1970’s. "

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