Maker

Ammer

German piano and harpsichord maker

Ammer is a German maker of pianos and harpsichords, founded in 1927.

Models

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

Sources

Representative model

  • 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.