Petrof is a Czech piano maker. The company was founded in 1864 in Hradec Králové by Antonín Petrof (d.1915) who had studied piano making in Vienna.
1857 – The company founder Antonín PETROF goes to Vienna to learn how to build grand pianos
1864 – Hradec Králové - building of the first concert grand piano
1865 – Antonín Petrof transforms his father's joinery workshop into a piano maker's workshop
1874 – The company moves to a new property in the d...
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Petrof is a Czech piano maker. The company was founded in 1864 in Hradec Králové by Antonín Petrof (d.1915) who had studied piano making in Vienna.
1857 – The company founder Antonín PETROF goes to Vienna to learn how to build grand pianos
1864 – Hradec Králové - building of the first concert grand piano
1865 – Antonín 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 Temesvár in Hungary opened
1908 – The company becomes a limited company. Not only the founder Antonín Petrof, but also his sons Jan, Antonín and from 1914 the youngest Vladimír (2nd generation) work for the company.
1915 – Antonín Petrof and his wife Marie, the company confidential clerk die
1928 – PETROF together with the significant American...
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