Swartz (of Munich)
German
maker (spinet-maker)
Biography
Swartz was a spinet-maker in Munich who, as early as 1783, tried a double-grand piano concept in Europe. Spillane credits the New York maker Pirsson with reproducing the spirit of Swartz's idea decades later in more modern form, patenting it in 1850.
Highlights
- Tried a double-grand piano concept in Munich as early as 1783, later revived by Pirsson
Source
Daniel Spillane, History of the American Pianoforte (1890), p. 199.
Public domain.