Ferdinand Scheller (instrument maker)

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Ferdinand Eduard Theodor Scheller (born July 31, 1807 in Celle ; † March 18, 1887 ibid) was a German piano and organ builder and inventor .

Life

Ferdinand Eduard Theodor Scheller was born in Celle at the beginning of the 19th century during the so-called " French era ". His brother was the doctor August Burghard Scheller , who later worked in Celle († January 16, 1871).

The future instrument maker completed his training in the cities of Vienna , Berlin , Paris and Weimar . One of his teachers was the organ and instrument maker Heinrich Lohstöter , who also worked in Celle .

Even before industrialization began in the Kingdom of Hanover , Ferdinand Scheller founded his own factory in his hometown as a young man in 1832 at the address Blumlage 5–6 . From there he soon exported pianos in particular to numerous countries, including overseas to the United States of America (USA).

Scheller received a royal award for the process he invented to use indigenous types of wood as resonance bodies for musical instruments. He drew the necessary wood for the instrument from the eastern part of Celle mixed forest -region " language ".

In the second half of the 19th century, in addition to Ferdinand Scheller, there was also the organ builder Heinrich Vieth , who lived in Celle.

In 1864 the Scheller company went bankrupt because the factory, which was still operated as a handicraft business with a total of 25 journeymen , had not grown compared to the machine-based production that was emerging among competitors .

After closing his factory in the Blumlage, Scheller founded a repair shop, initially at the address Am Heiligen Kreuz . He later moved the workshop to the Brauhausstrasse 4 building and finally to house number 2.

Ferdinand Eduard Theodor Scheller died in his hometown at the time of the German Empire on March 18, 1887.

Museum exhibits

A square piano built by Ferdinand Scheller's house from around 1845 is an exhibit in the collection of the musicologist Andreas Erich Beurmann , which was distributed to the Museum of Art and Industry in Hamburg and Gut Hasselburg in Ostholstein .

Individual evidence

  1. a b Andreas E. Beurmann: No. 158: Tafelklavier. In: ders .: The book from the piano. The Beurmann collection in the Museum of Art and Industry in Hamburg and at Gut Hasselburg in Ostholstein. Georg Olms, Hildesheim / Zurich / New York 2007, ISBN 978-3-487-08472-5 , pp. 210f. u. ö .; Preview over google books .
  2. a b c d e f g h RWLE Möller , Bernd Polster : Language. In: RWLE Möller, Bernd Polster: Celle. The city book. Edition Stadtbuch, Bonn 2003, ISBN 3-00-012605-8 , p. 216.
  3. o. V .: Scheller, August Burghard. In the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Niedersächsische Landesbibliothek [undated], last accessed on June 16, 2017.
  4. a b Uwe Pape : The organs of the city of Celle (= North German organs , vol. 13) (= publication of the Society of Organ Friends , vol. 178). Pape, Berlin 2000, ISBN 978-3-921140-55-0 and ISBN 3-921140-55-2 , passim ; Preview over google books.
  5. Bernd Polster, RWLE Möller: Language. In this: Celle. The city book. P. 232.