 Then he traveled as a journeyman to England, France and Germany, returning to Vienna in 1832 to carry on the piano business under the Schweighofer name.Johann Michael Schweighofer applied enhanced knowledge and techniques diligently to the piano manufacture, leading to the winning of the Gold medal at the Vienna exhibition of 1845.The pianos he built bear the inscription "J. M. Schweighofer [in Wien]"

Subsequently, the business was carried on by the third and fourth generations