Herter
action maker
shop proprietor (action/piano trade)
Biography
Herter is named by Spillane among the New York piano-action makers in business by 1856, alongside C. Rogers, Jesse Davis, Koth, and Westland. Spillane singles him out with the additional note that in later years Herter arrived at some prominence, distinguishing him slightly from the other bare names in the list. Herter is named as the proprietor of the New York shop that Otto Wessell, later a founder of Wessell, Nickel & Gross, entered at seventeen years of age to serve his apprenticeship course, becoming an expert and finished workman there. No further biographical detail is given about Herter in this text.
Highlights
- Listed among New York piano-action makers in business by 1856.
- Noted as having 'arrived at some prominence' in later years.
- Ran the New York shop where Otto Wessell entered as an apprentice at age seventeen
Source
Daniel Spillane, History of the American Pianoforte (1890), pp. 312, 323.
Public domain.