Published Weekly
For the Trade
Single Copies
Ten Cents
Vol. 86 July 18, 2026 No. 19

Grubb

action maker successor
  • Grubb & Kosegarten Brothers

Biography

Grubb was the son-in-law of F. W. Frickinger, the German-born founder of an early American piano action factory established at Albany, New York, in 1837 and later moved to Nassau, New York. Grubb succeeded Frickinger in running the business, which continued afterward under the firm name Grubb & Kosegarten Brothers, still operating at the time this text was written. No further biographical detail about Grubb is given beyond his relationship to Frickinger and his role in continuing the firm.

Highlights

  • Son-in-law of F. W. Frickinger, succeeded him in the Albany/Nassau, N.Y. action-making business
  • The firm continued under his name as Grubb & Kosegarten Brothers

Source

Alfred Dolge, Pianos and Their Makers, Vol. I (1911), p. 127.

Public domain.

← All Piano People