It rests on a trestle and has a pedal mechanism, the tuning-pins being on the right. It has the number 1796 to the left of the keyboard.
An early square piano with double action and 12 ‘additional notes’ striking up through a hole at the back of the soundboard has a round cartouche on the nameboard marked ‘Thos Tomkison Grand and Square PIANO FORTE Maker Dean Street, SOHO’. Although stamped with a serial number, his pianos were rarely dated. He worked in Dean Street, London, from December 1798 to June 1851, and married Mary Dolling at St Anne's, Soho, on 28 June 1800. Important contemporary evaluations, as well as the surviving notable instruments near Glauchau (Schönberg. Choice materials and careful construction guarantee the high quality of Thümmler’s organs, whose tone unites strength and silvery clarity with charm and a warmth of timbre.
On the magnificent Tettau organ (1840–41) the 8′ Flauto traverso and quadruple Cornett are capable on their own of filling the church with resonance. The departments (with compasses ranging up to f‴) are well-endowed with overtones and independent of each other a characteristic of his carefully planned specifications is that the Cornett is usually on the upper manual. The façades are beautiful and impressive. His craftsmanship follows in the tradition of Andreas and Gottfried Silbermann, but also shows originality. Walcker in Ludwigsburg, Aloys Mooser (Fribourg) and Bernhard Dreymann (Mainz), he became in 1833 a citizen of his native Zwickau. Matthias was succeeded in Vienna by his son Anton (iii) (. Matthias Thir ( b Schönborn, 1741 d Vienna, ), long believed to be the brother of Johann Georg but more likely his son, operated a large, prolific workshop and additionally produced guitars. His workshop was taken over by his pupil Franz Geissenhof in 1781. He also made violas, violas d’amore (including one owned by Haydn), cellos, and double basses, including some with five strings. His typically long, narrow violins display high arching in the mode of Stainer. Johann Georg Thir ( b Brenn, Bavaria, or Prim nr Füssen, Allgäu, c1709 d Vienna, 29 March 1779) is considered to be perhaps the finest violin maker of his day in Vienna, where he became a citizen in 1738 and later married the widow of the luthier Supper. The name Thir and its variants were common, and the relationships are uncertain. įamily of luthiers active in Vienna, Austria, and Pressburg, Hungary (now Bratislava, Slovakia) in the 18th century and early 19th. He gradually expanded the scope of his activities to include importing pianos from London for sale, dealing in instrument sales and rental, selling music and instrument supplies, and from. He also maintained an extensive repair and tuning business. In Philadelphia Taws soon began piano manufacture, and thereafter usually styled himself a “musical instrument maker,” advertising the furnishing of harpsichords, violins, and guitars as well. Charles varied the spelling of his surname for several years after arriving in America it also appears as Tawse and Tawes. It has been claimed that Taws was associated with New York piano importer John Jacob Astor, but there is no evidence for that assertion. He moved to Philadelphia by July of that year, remaining in that city for the rest of his career. He arrived in New York from Britain in May 1786 and advertised himself as an organ builder, as well as a repairer of keyboard instruments and guitars.
Maker of organs and pianos, instrument retailer, and music publisher of Scottish birth. ( b Aberdeen, Scotland, c1743 d Philadelphia, PA, April 1, 1836).
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