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Does anyone know the history of "Sprunck, Fr" pianos? I've been looking for it all over the internet and some books, and I can't find anything about them. I've seen a lot of them, all uprights, here in Argentina, I'm sure they were fine instruments at their time (they have agraffes, beautiful carvings and so on), but now they are antiques, their pinblocks are always loose (as I see in many french pianos, they are made of a single block of wood), I haven't seen any restored or tuned properly. the question is: why?? I've seen some older and almost obsolete instruments being restored, I don't understand why I can't find anything about this one.

I have one myself, It smells awful inside, the action looks really old and a bit strange, no cross stringing, no ribs.
I'm going to restore it one day, but its history remains a mistery to me.
I'm really curious, any information would be useful. Thanks in advance.

The Piano Atlas lists the name as being in Hettsledt in 1839. That would be in Saxony. "Fr." probably stands for Franz or Frederick, not France.

There were thousands of piano assemblers at one time. I use the term assembler rather than manufacturer, because they would get parts from various other firms and assemble them and put their own or other people's names on them. There were many great wood-carvers who would make parts for these assemblers, so the quality of the cases was often very good. There were fewer people who made good parts for the inside.

So rather than restoring this instrument, if you like the case, see if you can find a decent digital action that can be fitted into the case. It will not be a fine acoustic piano, but chances are, it never was. The digital action would make it a much better instrument than it was when it was new.

so It'll rather become a piece furniture than an instrument. thank you for the data! I don't understand why all the shitty pianos in europe ended up in Argentina, perhaps they came along with those nazis (?). Here it's full of cheap birdcages and this kind of not-so-cheap bad instruments, they were spread in every middle class mid XXth century family home, and all of them are just plain garbage and of course nobody cares