History / Portrait
After having finished his apprenticeship, among others with Johann Baptist Streicher in Vienna, Johann Christoph Neupert established his own workshop in 1868 in Münchberg to manufacture pianos. Starting from very modest beginnings NEUPERT instruments very quickly gained a good reputation so that it became necessary to move to Bamberg in 1874, a more accessible and larger city.
In the course of time the passion of Johann Christoph Neupert and his descendants for collecting historical keyboard instruments resulted in a collection of more than 300 valuable examples. This collection has been exhibited since 1968 in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg.
In 1906 the first NEUPERT harpsichord was made by the three sons of the founder end a pioneering event at this time. During the following decades the whole family of historical keyboard instruments was reconstructed. Based on both the originals of the Neupert Collection and the organological work by Hanns Neupert, a grandson of the company's founder, NEUPERT instruments acquired a worldwide reputation.

Working from a knowledge of the history of instruments, the physical and acoustical parameters, the wealth of experience in the trade, and the examples of the Neupert Collection, instruments are now being made in the fourth generation. The preservation of historical building traditions and tonal conceptions has been combined with the precision of modern manufacturing and reliability.
Considering that historical keyboard instruments form again today an inalienable part of our musical life, it may be stated that the NEUPERT workshop has had a decisive share in it.