History

Fryderyk Buchholtz, nowadays we would have said that he was born in Olsztynek, but back in the days, when he was came to this world, this location was called Hohenstein in Prussia. It was 16th of May in 1792. When he achieved the journeyman title he began to learn knowledge and skills of making pianos during his trip across Europe. He came back to Warsaw in 1815 with piano and organ master patent. Because of that he could easily establish a piano manufacture. At the beginning his workshop had place in Warsaw near Mazowiecka Street 1352. First instruments he built there were vertical giraffe pianos. Those looked very high, pointed upwards. This instrument received medium silver medal at the exhibition in Warsaw in 1825. From that time he began to make only grands with flap equipped with Viennese action, and sometimes custom-built English type mechanisms. An excellent opportunity to learn English by building grands was associating with the instrument brought by Maria Szymanowska in 1826. It was possible to transport it with paying no duty under condition that local piano makers could use it as a model. Buchholtz presented the upgraded piano in January of 1827. This instrument has iron supports for the frame and the lower portion of the body, and the open bottom of the case. This grand piano containing all the above upgrades is possible to see in the Chopin Museum in Warsaw.