Carl Ecke was a German

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...

brand from

Prussia Prussia, , Old Prussian: ''Prūsa'' or ''Prūsija'' was a German state on the southeast coast of the Baltic Sea. It formed the German Empire under Prussian rule when it united the German states in 1871. It was ''de facto'' dissolved by an em ...

during the 19th and 20th century. The production started in Posen (Poznan), in 1843. At first only grand pianos were made by this company, but in 1870 it started making upright pianos as well. The company was then expanded and in 1873 moved to

Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...

, and later also to

Dresden Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label=Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth larg ...

. The signature on the pianos changed over the years: * Carl Ecke, Posen (until about 1890) * Carl Ecke, Berlin & Posen (Berlin u. Posen) (in 1870s, 1890s, and about 1900) * Carl Ecke, Berlin, Dresden, Posen (in 1890s, also about 1908) * Carl Ecke, Berlin – Dresden (after 1895) * Carl Ecke, Berlin (in 1885, after 1905, and regularly in the 1930s).

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