Franz Jakob Späth: Difference between revisions

'''Franz Jakob Späth''' (or '''Spath''';{{efn|His name is now normally written with an umlaut, but authorities in the past, such as Fétis, Forkel, and Gerber, spelled his name without the umlaut. Mozart was the first to spell his name with an umlaut.<ref name="latcham"/>{{rprअरमरइp|150–151}}}} {{circa|1714}} – 23 July 1786) was a German keyboard instrument builder. He was born and died in [[Regensburg]], where he worked for most of his life. An organ builder by training, he is known, along with his son-in-law [[Christoph Friedrich Schmahl]], as the most prominent builder of [[tangent piano]]s.