A piano manufacturing company founded by Julius

Blüthner in 1853 in Leipzig Germany. By 1885, the company was the largest European piano manufacturer (Bechstein surpassed them in 1905).
Unique to the great makers, the Blüthner family continues their 5th generation piano building tradition. Numerous royals, composers, conductors, artists, and performers have owned Blüthner pianos. They include Johannes Brahms, Gustav Mahler, Béla Bartók, Claude Debussy, Max Reger, Richard Wagner, Johann Strauss, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Dmitri Shostakovich, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Wilhelm Kempff, Yehudi Menuhin, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Marlene Dietrich, Petronel Malan, and Liberace.
Blüthners have been used in popular music. One Blüthner piano owned by the Abbey Road Studios in London was used on some tracks of The Beatles’ Let It Be album, most notably, in the hits “Let It Be” and “The Long and Winding Road”. One was also used in the film “The Sting”.