Johann Christoph Jeckel

Johann Christoph Jeckel (* 1731 in Gondetz in today's Poland ; † 1813 ) was an instrument maker. He became known as a manufacturer of hammer pianos .

Life

Jeckel worked as a carpenter's assistant in Posen from 1750 to 1754 . From 1763 he can be traced back to Worms , where he applied for citizenship and probably had previously worked for the organ maker Johann Georg Linck (1724–1762). After Jeckel married his widow, he worked from 1763 to 1767 for a previously unidentified organ maker in Frankfurt. This is likely to have been Philipp Ernst Wegmann , with whom there was a special connection: the organ builder Johann Christian Köhler (1714–1761) in Frankfurt, whose own son died young, trained his stepson Philipp Ernst Wegmann (1734–1778) to be his workshop successor, and In the years approx. 1747–1758, Johann Georg Linck was his most important employee, who was given special, trustworthy tasks. Jeckel only received citizenship in Worms in 1767. His son (Johann) Christian Jeckel (1763-1820) worked and signed from 1789 together with his father, who died in 1813.

Jeckel became known as a manufacturer of hammer pianos . One such masterpiece by Jeckel from 1785 is on display in the Kurpfälzisches Museum in Heidelberg. A square piano from 1770 can be seen in Homburg Castle in Triefenstein . It is decorated with great effort and with the finest taste. For the marquetry of the instrument, Jeckel used walnut , plum , maple , rosewood ( rosewood ) and padouk , the keyboard is artistically covered with ebony and bone. Its range is F1 - f3. Inv. No. 6