Piano 45

The first piano for more than year, with piano 44 having been snagged at reference 2 in March last year. Luckily, given that churches are rather off-limits at the moment, scarcely counting as essential shopping, it was lucky that when I snagged Piano 17 at Brading church a couple of years ago, I did not think to look in the village hall adjacent, where we did have some essential shopping to do a few days ago at the stall there from the local farm shop. Broad beans, tomatoes and cheese amongst other things. Cheese, not from the farm, but from an affiliate in Dorset, all these farmers being hand-in-glove together. But more about all that in due course.

This Strohbech being a first, with no mention of any such thing to be found in any of the blogs hitherto. Not all that much turned up by Bing or Google either, beyond there being uprights, baby grands and grands of this name for sale secondhand. So I have so far failed to find out anything about the company, apart from it being confused by search engines with Strohber, which I assume is not the same at all.

Is Strohbech just one of those brand names, one of those stencils, used by some piano manufacturer in Birmingham (or wherever), maybe a hundred years ago or more, to make his pianos sound more German, at that time the Nescafé of the piano world? Rather as my amplifier and CD player have been given a Japanese sounding name when actually they come from somewhere in Europe? Or is it vice-versa?

Reference 1: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2019/07/piano-17.html.

Reference 2: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2020/03/piano-44.html.