![]() Now, less than a handful of piano makers remain.Īltenburg identifies itself as the sole piano house in the country still operated by a direct descendant of its founder. Hundreds of stores built and sold pianos, with many German immigrants taking up the craft in order to survive in America. In the 1920s and 30s, there were enough piano makers in the region to fill a phone book. Each Yamaha, Bohemia, August Förster and Palatino bearing a small brass plate reading “Otto Altenburg, established 1847” is polished to a high sheen, standing as a testament to one family’s survival in a fading industry. WHEN the sun shines, the pianos lined up inside Altenburg Piano House on East Jersey Street here catch the light across their lids.
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