Gilbert
piano maker
Biography
Gilbert was a renowned Boston piano maker to whom A. M. McPhail was apprenticed as a boy after arriving from New Brunswick. Under Gilbert's training, McPhail learned the craft well enough to later establish his own successful piano-making business in Boston in 1837.
Highlights
- Renowned Boston piano maker who trained A. M. McPhail as an apprentice
Source
Alfred Dolge, Pianos and Their Makers, Vol. I (1911).
Public domain.