Gutwaldt
German
piano maker/inventor (implied)
Biography
Gutwaldt is mentioned only in passing by Spillane, cited alongside the maker Charles Sackmeister as an example of a German craftsman in the New York piano trade whose talents were exploited but poorly credited, owing to the anti-German prejudice of the period.
Highlights
- Cited alongside Charles Sackmeister as a German craftsman held back by the era's anti-German prejudice
Source
Daniel Spillane, History of the American Pianoforte (1890), p. 152.
Public domain.