Scholze pianos represent an ideal compromise between price and quality and form an essential component of the „PETROF Brand Family“. Scholze pianos are designed in PETROF’s development workshop in Hradec Králové and produced under licence in China in conformity with the technical documentation of PETROF’s Contruction & Technology Department under the technical supervision of its employees. Today, PETROF still produces Scholze pianos, making active commercial use of the name. If for any reason, you decide the used piano you purchase isnt the right one for your needs, or if you choose to upgrade to a different new or used piano. In 1948 the company assets were transferred to a nationalised enterprise called Továrna na piana a varhany v Hradec Králové (Hradec Králové Piano and Organ Factory) The Instruments After the war the company was confiscated and continued operations under an appointed national manager. The firm prospered right up until the economic crash: during the Second World War its workforce went down to 50. Scholze’s retirement, to „Scholze’s Söhne“. The name of the firm was changed to „Scholze & Co.“ later, after F. After returning in 1914 they entered the firm to run the pianomaking factory in Jiříkova. Scholze made all four of his sons learn the pianomaker’s craft and sent them to gain experience in overseas firms (Steinway in England, Bechstein in Berlin) where they learnt modern manufacturing procedures. Scholze’s high quality pianos sold well both locally and abroad - in South Africa, Argentina, Mexico, Uraguay, Turkey, and throughout Europe. Later he moved to Varnsdorf, where he built a new factory for uprights and grands. He gained experience in Germany and founded his own piano factory in the Šluknovsko region in 1876.

He got into making pianos purely by chance, having successfully shortened a Viennese grand piano. He soon began making musical instruments.

He was technically minded as well as musically talented. Frank Scholze, the founder of the first piano factory in the Šluknovsko region, was born in 1853. The history of the family firm begins in the second half of the 19th century.

Weinbach piano history