Behrent
piano maker
Biography
Behrent is cited in passing as the maker who announced the first piano made in America, in Philadelphia in 1775. The text invokes this event as a benchmark for measuring the progress of American piano-making over the following century, leading up to the 1876 Centennial Exhibition, where American-made pianos were judged to excel the best European instruments in almost every respect.
Highlights
- Credited with announcing the first piano made in America, in Philadelphia in 1775.
Source
Daniel Spillane, History of the American Pianoforte (1890), p. 260.
Public domain.