Feurich 195 vleugel (1910)

 
Totally restored grand piano from the German high-quality brand Feurich. Completely fitted with new strings and painted completely new black high-gloss.

Julius Gustav Feurich founded the Pianofortefabrik Feurich in Leipzig in 1851 - after working for Irmler, Erard and Pleyel - and after successfully selling pianos, he started building grand pianos from 1877 onwards. The only son Heinrich Hermann Feurich took over the company in 1893 and under his leadership the company expanded and production was modernized.

Up to and including 1928, these were top years for Feurich, just as for other well-known German piano makers and with the exception of the First World War. After the stock market crash of 1929 and the Second World War, it took until 1950 before Feurich started producing in numbers again. From 1951 onwards, Feurich was more than half part of the Euterpe factory, together with Hoffmann, Fritz Kuhla, Heinrich Haegele and Euterpe.

In 1959, the company Julius Feurich Pianofortefabrik GmbH was founded, because expropriation was threatened as a result of Feurich's East German production (Leipzig), which was not allowed to merge with production in Lauglau due to a state ban. The Julius Feurich Pianofortefabrik GmbH had its successful period from the 1970s to the first half of the 1980s, but from around 1985 the competition became stronger and in 1991 Euterpe (and with it Feurich) was taken over by Bechstein.

From the moment that 'Bechsteingruppe' was added to the brands Bechstein, Hoffmann and Zimmermann as well as to the Feurich instruments, things went downhill for Feurich. Before the bankruptcy in 1993, the Feurich share was bought back from Bechstein and since 1995 the Julius Feurich Pianofortefabrik (together with Hupfeld and Rönisch) has been located in Gunzenhausen. Until 2010, the Feurich pianos and grand pianos were built in German quality and according to German quality standards.

In 2010, Feurich merged with Wendl & Lung, after which the pianos were made by the Chinese Hailun Musical Instruments in Ningbo. Since 2012, Feurich instruments have again been made in Germany under the name JF Pianofortemanufaktur in Gunzenhausen.