The Steck piano brand was then sold to Sohmer & Co., and then to America Sejung Corporation, which dissolved in 2013.

He moved to New York in 1853 and opened a piano factory four years later as the firm Steck & Grupe.

The companies pianos were highly awarded at the 1873 Vienna World's Fair and 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia.

Steck retired from the company in 1887, and spent the remainder of his life attempting to design a piano that was always in tune.

Richard Wagner reportedly composed the opera Parsifal on a Steck piano.

[8] The Steck piano brand was then sold to Sohmer & Co.[9] and then to America Sejung Corporation, which dissolved in 2013.