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THIS IS A LOVELY ANTIQUE PIANO BY ERNST KAPS
DON’T REALLY WANT TO SELL BUT I DO NOT HAVE THE ROOM ANY LONGER
MOVED INTO SIDE ROOM FOR STORAGE ON 10/06/18
NOT MANY OF THESE AROUND AND IN GOOD CONDITION
COLLECTION ONLY ASAP (B32 – M5 J3 QUINTON)
THANK YOURICHARD
HistoryThe piano brand Kaps or Ernst Kaps Pianofortefabrik was founded and produced in Dresden Germany in 1858 by Ernst Karl Wilhelm Kaps. Ernst Kaps was born in Dbeln on December 6, 1826 and died in 1887 in Dresden (Saxony).[2] Kaps was appointed in 1879 an honorary member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music[3] His son Ernst Eugen born in 1864 died in early 1910 in Dresden under suspicious circumstances. A report suggested he may have taken his own life as a result of his company facing receivership.[4] His second Son Wilhelm Karl born in 1872 and died in 1943 in Tolkewitz. However, the year book of wealth and income of the millionaires in the kingdom of Saxony of 1912[5] states that 2 of the family members, Wilhelm and Gertrud Kaps, each had 1.3M marks and an annual income of .11 M Marks. In 1876, the company exhibited at the Centennial International Exhibition in Philadelphia.[6] In 1922, the company then known as Ernst Kaps Piano Fabrik AG merged with another company, owned and founded by Johann Kuhse, whose piano manufacturing business was founded in Dresden in 1874.[7] In 1925 the factory, then known as the Kaps/Kuhse Pianoforte AG, made both piano brands alongside each other. The Dresden factory closed in 1930 and at this point the company had reported its final serial number as No. 37500. The Dresden factory produced 37,500 pianos and grand pianos and ever since 1885 manufactured a consistent 1000 pianos per year. There were showrooms at 13 Altmarkt, Dresden and 18 Schloss Strasse, Dresden with branches in Paris, London, Irkutsk Oblast and St Petersburg Russia.
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