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Handcrafted piano with great tradition !
In 1852 Johann Christian Tetsch began to make pianos, first was the straight stringing square piano, later the oblique stringing one, which was up to state-of-the-art technology at that time.
One of these oblique stringing pianos was sold by Johann Christian Tetsch to Mr. Nett - the railway-station master in Elten at the time. This sale was proved a great luck, because daughter Nett bewitched a Netherlandish colonial officer with her piano-playing, who married her and took both her and piano to Indonesia.
After careful and extensive survey of Tetsch’s piano, a local pianomaker and dealer Mr. van der Putten placed a piano order to Johann Christian Tetsch with the quantity of 4 pieces monthly. It was such a huge order at that time that Johann Christian Tetsch could not accomplish it alone in time, so that Johann Christian Tetsch und Karl May established the company Tetsch & May together in November 1867.
In 1875 Tetsch & May began to produce modern pianos with under damper, which are still in production today.
In 1880 Tetsch & May participated in the Industrial Exhibition in Duesseldorf and won the gold medal award for "outstanding performance", at that time there were 6 employees in Tetsch & May with an annual production of approx. 30 instruments.
In 1895, at the World Fair in Amsterdam, we also won a gold medal.
From 1914, due to the first World War, the company was forced to stop production, and the company's founder - Johann Christian Tetsch died of pneumonia in 1916. |
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