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Clavichord by Christoph Friedrich Schmahl
Traditional instruments from the Schmahl family workshop (including many tangent pianos and fretted as well as unfretted clavichords) were highly regarded for their exquisite quality and sound, sharing features of earlier Saxon school of clavichord building.

The undated clavichord, one of the last instruments by Ch.F. Schmahl (1739-1814) made in c.1800-1810, may possibly have belonged to the composer and theologian Joseph Alois Ladurner. Born in Meran in South Tyrol, Ladurner later lived in Brixen, only ten kilometres from Klausen where the instrument was discovered in 2013. Ladurner wrote to Robert Schumann in a letter on 28 February 1838: “I preferably entertain myself on my sublime-sounding Schmahl clavichord, with the sole use of which I drafted all of my compositional sketches.”