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Vol. 86 July 18, 2026 No. 19

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.

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