Customers of Ibach pianos (only finished between 1840 and 1970) we do offer a research in our records for your piano; however we must calculate a charge for this time-consuming service. If you like to use this service, please send us a letter with your correct piano-number and a charge of 40.- EURO. You will get a certificate about your IBACH-piano. We will go forward within three steps.
1. We need your exact piano number. Problems to find your piano-number? Please use our little hints to get the correct number of your grand piano or your upright piano. Mail the number. We'll try to find your instrument.
2. If we are successful, we mail you to send us the charge of 40 Euro (Don't send money before!).
a.) by bank-transfer to favour of
Rud. Ibach Sohn GmbH & Co. KG
account-number 1404916013 at the
"Credit- und Volksbank Wuppertal e.G." bank-number 330 600 98
IBAN-Bank-Account: DE30 3306 0098 1404 9160 13
BIC (bank identifier code): GENODED1CVW
Costs of bank transfer must be paid by sender!
b.) Cheques are not wellcome, because the clearing causes extraordinary costs! Exeptionally non-European-foreigners may send us a cheque about the sum of 55 Euro or 72 US-Dollar to our postal address:
Rud. Ibach Sohn
Wilhelmstr. 45
58332 Schwelm
Germany
c.) NEW! CARD PAYMENT via PAY PAL is possible now! If you like, use our PAY PAL page to send us the charge of 40 Euro otherwise 52 US-Dollar via Paypal.
3. After getting the charge, we will print out your certificate and send it to you by postal mail. Don't forget to send us your postal address!
Please notice: Our certificates are only destined for old pianos, made until the year 1970. These records we keep in our archiv. Records of younger times are stored out of our factory and are not getable.
Usually our certificate contains the exact day of completion the instrument, wood, colour etc. and the first customer, who bought the piano. The first customer may be a privat person as well as an IBACH-dealer or a musicstore. Sometimes, we can give some more informations, for example the former price of an instrument.
Sometimes we are unsuccessfully and there is nothing to discover in our old records. Especially in the years 1890 - 1906 mentioned above, when exports in the UK were usually not registered in the regular records because they have had extra-records for the UK-export-business to our general-representative Mr. Hermann Klinker in London (the UK-business was very big). Klinkerts firm was a company by its own, called "Rud. Ibach Sohn London". These special records are lost nowadays. Before and after this time, the regular records are containing also the piano trade to UK and the British colonies.
