Ferdinand Hauck (piano maker)

Ferdinand Hauck (born February 27, 1805 in Habelschwerdt , Lower Silesia , † February 3, 1871 ) was a German wing maker from the County of Glatz .

Hauck became interested in mechanical works at a very early age and was already building small organs, organ grinders and mills as a child. After attending the Glatzer Gymnasium, he began his apprenticeship with the instrument maker Vincenz in Reinerz and worked in Vienna in the piano factory founded by Johann Fritz in 1806 , later with Conrad Graf . After he returned to Habelschwerdt, he founded a small factory which he was able to expand in the years that followed. Hauck employed up to eight assistants and sold his wings to Berlin.

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Hauck developed a machine to manufacture brass capsules to move the hammers. With these he replaced the wooden capsules of the English mechanics, which swelled when the room temperature fluctuated.

Its grand pianos have a circumference from the Contra C to the three strokes a and are characterized less by their elegance than by their melodic tone and durability.

source

• P. Thamm: "Die Tonkünstler der Grafschaft Glatz" in quarterly for the history and local history of the Grafschaft Glatz . 5th year (1885/86)
• Franz Volkmer : History of the City of Habelschwerdt , Frankes Buchhandlung, Habelschwerdt 1897.