Julius Ferdinand Blüthner (11 March 1824 - 13 April 1910) was a Germanpiano maker and founder of theBlüthner piano factory.
Blüthner was born in Falkenhain (nowMeuselwitz),Thuringia. In 1853 he founded apiano-manufacturing company inLeipzig Germany. Blüthner pianos had an early success at exhibitions, conservatories and the concert stage. Further inventions and innovations lead Blüthner to patent arepetition action, and, in 1873, the aliquot scaling patent for grand pianos. This added a fourth,sympathetic (aliquot) string to each trichord group in the treble to enrich the piano's weakest register by enhancing theovertone spectrum of the instrument. He died, aged 86, inLeipzig.
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