George Gomph

piano maker Albany pioneer

Biography

George Gomph appears in Dolge's account as one of the pioneer piano makers of Albany, New York, listed together with Myron A. Decker and P. Reed as part of the early Albany colony of piano makers. The passage offers no individual narrative for Gomph, no dates, and no specific firm name attached solely to him; he is presented simply as a contemporary of Decker in the formative years of Albany's piano trade, a period the text situates just before and around the founding of firms such as Marshall, James & Traver and Hazelton, Talbot & Lyon. No further detail on his career, origins, or later activity is provided in this section of the text. From Spillane (1890): George Gomph was among the names worthy of mention in the annals of pioneer piano-making in Albany, working as a maker on State Street in 1838.

Highlights

Named as one of the pioneer piano makers of the Albany, New York colony of the trade, alongside Myron A. Decker and P. Reed.
A pioneer Albany piano-maker who worked on State Street in 1838

Sources

Alfred Dolge, Pianos and Their Makers, Vol. I (1911), p. 287.

Daniel Spillane, History of the American Pianoforte (1890), p. 140.

Public domain.

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