Otto Börs
German
piano-maker
teacher of John Gerts
Biography
Otto Börs is described as the renowned piano-maker of Hamburg, Germany, under whom John Gerts learned piano making after completing a cabinet-making apprenticeship, before Gerts emigrated to Chicago in 1870.
Highlights
- Renowned piano-maker of Hamburg, Germany, who taught John Gerts the trade
Source
Alfred Dolge, Pianos and Their Makers, Vol. II (1913), p. 48.
Public domain.