Karl Maendler

Karl Maendler (born March 22, 1872 in Munich ; † August 2, 1958 there ) was a German instrument maker.

biography

By trade, Maendler completed his training as a piano maker in 1897 and married the daughter of the Munich piano manufacturer MJ Schramm. In 1907 he built his first harpsichord for the pianist Elfriede Schunck, and from 1912 he was involved in the development of a Bach piano (1923), which had a number of patented devices for sound modulation. Maendler invented a song harp in 1924 and built trough xylophones for Carl Orff in 1925 . Until the Maendler-Schramm company closed due to the war in 1944, harpsichords, spinets , clavichords and pianos were made. In 1951 Maendler returned to Munich and began to rebuild the company, but in 1956, after losing his sight, he had to give up management.

Web link

• Piano Museum Haus Eller

literature

• John Henry van der Meer: An overview of the German harpsichord construction , in: Hermann Moeck (ed.), Five centuries of German musical instrument construction, Celle 1987, pp. 235–262, here p. 249; Jan Großbach, Atlas of Piano Numbers, 9th edition, Frankfurt / Main 1999
• The music in the past and present. General encyclopedia of music . Edited by Friedrich Blume. 14 vols., Kassel, Basel 1949–1976