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Instrument builder and horn player from Bohemia. He settled in Stuttgart and founded the company in Ludwigsburg, he held the patents for the special Schediwy valve system which he developed. His son, Franz, inherited the company.

Franz Schediwy was born on 28. NOV 1851 in Daschitz / Bohemia. He studied music and instrument manufacturing in Vienna/Austria and relocated to Ludwigsburg (near Stuttgart/Germany) in 1875 to launch his own company.

His instruments were famous throughout Europe in the beginning 20th century. In 1899 he patented the "Cross-Cornet" with a very special rotary valve system. The valves are ordered as a triangle. Therefore he received a gold medal from the German emperor Wilhelm II in 1916.

After his death on 5. NOV 1933 his son Franz inherited the company. Franz died in WW II in NOV 1944. In 1945 his widow rented the company to the music dealer Robert Barth in Stuttgart. They successfully manufactured and repaired all kinds of brass instruments inside the "Radio Barth" music company.

When Barth stopped all activities in 1995 the last master craftsman Norbert Boepple organised a buy out of the brass instrument shop and relocated to Ditzingen (near Stuttgart). He is actually producing fine hand made professional trumpets, flugelhorns and cornets in the old tradition of master Schediwy which are sold worldwide under the J*B*S label. Norbert Boepples son Lukas is about to inherit the company.

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