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Martin Skowroneck
German harpsichord builder
(Franz Hermann) Martin Skowroneck (21 December 1926, in Berlin – 14 May 2014, in Bremen)[1] was a German harpsichord builder, one of the pioneers of the modern movement of harpsichord construction on historical principles.
Life and career
He completed his secondary education in 1947,[2] then embarked on musical training at the Musikschule in Bremen, from which he received his diploma in 1950 as a teacher of flute and recorder.
During his student years, he had begun to make his own recorders, as he was dissatisfied with existing instruments.[3] He then began making recorders for other players.[4]
In 1952, he was asked to restore a clavichord that had been badly damaged in the war; this led him to build his own clavichord, then instruments for other people.[5] His first harpsichord dates from 1953.[6]
Skowroneck had no formal training as a builder; he learned his c