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C.A. Zoebisch & Sons

The founder of the C. A. Zoebisch instrument making company was Carl August Zoebisch Sr.  He, along with his sons C. A. Jr. (1824-1911), Herman Ernst (1833-1881) and Bernhard Zoebisch were a well-established brass instrument manufacturing company in NYC by the year 1860.   In addition to the sale, manufacture and importation of musical instruments, Charles Jr. was a successful business-man and wealthy bank vice-president, was a devout Moravian, as treasurer of the Moravian Church of America.  

C. A. Zoebisch & Sons were primarily importers and dealers, though they did manufacture some of their own brass instruments from imported parts manufactured in a family establishment in Markneukerken, Germany prior to 1870.

In an 1861 advertisement in the NY City Directory, Zoebisch & Sons placed an advertisement announcing themselves as “Manufacturers & Importers of all kinds of musical instruments, Strings & Trimmings…All the newest styles of Brass and German Silver Instruments for Bands, with or without rotary valves, either over-the-shoulder or upright, constantly on hand or made to order.” 

According to the 1870 US Census, the company owned $30,000.00 of real capital, and had $10,000.00 of raw material in stock.  Their shop employed 8 men at annual wages of $9,000.00, who (in) that year produced $30,000 worth of instruments.  In the 1885 American Musica Directory, the firm was listed as an instrument importer.  The firm was a large one for its day and many instruments bearing the Zoebisch signature are extant.

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