Maker
Ammer
German piano and harpsichord maker
Ammer is a German maker of pianos and harpsichords, founded in 1927.
Models
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Ammer Spinet
A spinet made by Gebr. Ammer of Eisenberg, Germany. Spinets were one of the workshop's core products alongside harpsichords and clavichords; the firm built more than 2,500 such keyboard instruments before being nationalized in 1972.
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Ammer 'Ruckers' Harpsichord
A single-manual harpsichord built by the Ammer brothers' workshop in Eisenberg, Thuringia, Germany, modeled on historical Ruckers instruments and series-produced from the 1930s into the early 1960s. Early Ammer harpsichords were used for Bach recordings by harpsichordist Isolde Ahlgrimm.
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Ammer Clavichord
A clavichord built by Gebr. Ammer of Eisenberg, Germany, produced both as series instruments and as historically informed reconstructions in collaboration with the Leipzig musical instrument collection.
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Representative model
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Ammer 'Ruckers' Harpsichord
A single-manual harpsichord built by the Ammer brothers' workshop in Eisenberg, Thuringia, Germany, modeled on historical Ruckers instruments and series-produced from the 1930s into the early 1960s. Early Ammer harpsichords were used for Bach recordings by harpsichordist Isolde Ahlgrimm.