Jacob Denner

Jacob Denner (* 1681, † 1735) was the son and successor of the already highly esteemed in his lifetime Nuremberg woodwind maker Johann Christoph Denner.

When Jacob Denner, the craftsmanship weight shifts on the flute sector towards the flute. First, Jacob has built nor the three-piece French form in his early flutes ( see, eg, the ivory flute from him in the Germanic National Museum Nuremberg), but later split the long centerpiece. He was able to offer one of the first in Germany to offer its customers change sections, which made it possible to adapt with a flute different vocal pitches. This invention he has probably taken over by the Paris instrument maker company Naust. The flutes are much more bored than the known Grenser instruments and their replicas are authentic about the flute music of Johann Sebastian Bach ( 1685-1750 ).

Jacob Denner has also built recorders, which are in various museums and there are privately owned and partly be replicated in larger series. The alto recorder from the Musikhistorisk Museum Copenhagen is considered the best preserved instrument Denner.

As his father was also Jacob Denner across national boundaries known for the extraordinary quality of his instruments. This has also helped him to be admitted in Nuremberg entirely against the strict rules of Rugsamtes without years of travel and master's certificate as an extraordinary masterpiece. Since Nuremberg lay in the middle of the old Europe, were easy to reach Vienna and Amsterdam via trade routes and waterways alike. Today in Nuremberg indicated only little attention to the once thriving musical instruments.

A somewhat strange instrument from Jacob Denner's workshop is the late form of a Pommers. It is rather a simplified oboe with a bell instead of the bell. It was probably designed more for reasons of volume or timbre than of historical interest.

Denner flute

In the late fall of 1991 was found near Nuremberg in a certain old house for demolition in the attic a conspicuous, obvious once precious wooden box. It contained a flute that had apparently located in the last two hundred years untouched.

The flute is made of boxwood, which was originally stained almost black with nitric acid. All parts carry Jacob Denner's stamp: a curved banner with the signature " I Denner " in it and including a Christmas tree with the letters "I" and "D" on the left and right of the tribe. No other flute Jacob Denner is obtained with so many center pieces, by any other means we know a piece, which makes it the flute d' amour.

Let the different discoloration of dark stained centerpieces recognize that the flute has been played in the 18th century almost exclusively with the shortest center piece, so in a tuning pitch of about a '= 422 Hz

The flute is played; she has an unusually full and lush, dark and richly colored clay.

In the opinion of experts is the best and most complete preserved flute the early 18th century at all. The Art and Culture Foundation of North Rhine -Westphalia managed to buy the instrument. It is the music of research available and is used for concerts and recordings.

The Denner flute plays a role in Ralf Isaus novel The Dark.

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• Instrument maker
• Flutemaker
• German
• Born in 1681
• Died in 1735
• Man