Gabriel Buntebart
Inscription: Gabriel Buntebart & Co fecerunt Londini 1778
Donation Randi (Padova 2019)
Gabriel Buntebart belongs to a group of German piano builders who emigrated to England during the Seven Years’ War and went down in history as the “Twelve Apostles”. Together with Zumpe, he is considered among the initiators of the piano building tradition in England.
He was a close friend of Johann Christian Bach and he was among the pallbearers at the great musician’s funeral.
style: square
width: cm. 149,6
depth: cm. 53
heigth(floor to Keyboard: cm. 74
compass: FF – f”‘
octave size: cm. 16,2
action: stossmechanik
hammer covering: leather
strings: FF – G# (open spun) / A – f”‘ bichord (brass)
wrest pins: square
bridge: continuous
handstop: 3 dampers (bass), dampers (treble), luth
case: mahogany, maple, thujah
