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Some of those listed were founders and members of influential harpsichord building dynasties. Others are known only through one or two instruments that have serendipitously survived, but are included because these instruments have proven a popular inspiration to modern builders who copy them.
Of the Hass family instruments, Frank Hubbard wrote that 'only one has what could be regarded as a normal disposition.' Their surviving harpsichords show an attempt to develop the instrument in a number of ways: one from 1721 is 2.58 m long, and one from 1723 has the unusual disposition 8' 8' 8' 4'. Hass occasionally used a 16' set of strings ...
The 1716 instrument is the only instrument that can definitively be attributed to a member of the Donzelague family, [3] but a further seven instruments have been possibly attributed to them as well, most of which are in private collections. [1] [4]
Zuckermann, Wolfgang (1969) The Modern Harpsichord: Twentieth Century Instruments and Their Makers, New York : October House, ISBN 0-8079-0165-2; The New Grove: Early Keyboard Instruments. Macmillan, 1989 ISBN 0-393-02554-3. (material from here is also available online in Grove Music Online) Beurmann, Andreas (2012) Harpsichords and More ...
The following family members are recorded as building instruments: [4] Robert Denis I (1520 - 1589), a builder of organs and spinets in Paris. Claude Denis (1544 - 1587), son of Robert I Robert Denis II ( died 1589), son of Robert I Jean Denis I (c.1549 - 1634), son of Robert I, elected as jurés of the instrument makers guild in Paris in 1601
His collection included instruments from all the main harpsichord-building areas of Europe: a number of English spinets; early harpsichords and virginals from Italy; Flemish instruments by the Ruckers; a late French instrument by Pascal Taskin; and a clavichord and harpsichord from North Germany, both by Johann Adolph Hass. [1]
Michael Mietke II (5 March 1702 – April/August 1754) was his son; he became harpsichord maker to the Königsberg court in 1728. [ 5 ] Georg[e] Mietke (31 January 1704 – 1770), also his son, left Berlin in 1729, moving to Danzig , and then in 1739 to Königsberg, where he had a licence to build 'Claviere, und musikalische Instrumenten' in 1747.
The Gräbner family were German harpsichord-, clavichord-, organ- and eventually piano makers from the 17th century to the beginning of the 19th century. [1] They are best known for their harpsichords, which represent a mid-german style of building, distinct from the better known northern style as represented by Hass, Mietke and Zell.