An extraordinary Schimmel 150 baby grand piano. Completely new painted black high-gloss. Wilhelm Schimmel (1854-1946) founded the famous Schimmel piano factory in Leipzig in 1885, and from 1892 began building grand pianos. In 1927 his son Wilhelm Arno Schimmel took over the company, moved it to Braunschweig and - due to the difficult economic times - the company merged with other piano manufacturers under the name "Deutsche Pianowerke AG. As of 1931, Schimmel was again an independent company. In 1951 Schimmel presented the world's first transparent Plexiglas grand piano and in 1956 a grand piano with built-in radio, record player and tape recorder.