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2015-Spring-V4-Part2.Pdf 13 BRINGING BACK A WILLIAM GEIB SQUARE PIANO Thomas Strange (Restoration) and Patrick Hawkins (Pianist) From the restorer From the pianist beautiful but unrestored William Geib piano (SN he acquisition of the restored William Geib piano 6714), was offered for sale in New York by Ed late in 2013 coincided with a concert that I had been ASwenson, a noted restorer. This piano was in need Tpreparing for the 2014 annual conference of the of a partial restoration but was in extremely good original HKSNA at the National Music Museum. Featured on the condition otherwise, with all but two strings still original, program were two composers: Franz Joseph Haydn and the dust board (shade) still with the piano, and having all Maria Hester Reynolds Park. These two keyboardists knew but four of the original hammers. The keyboard was also each other well and evidence supports the claim that Haydn very nice and the entire piano unusually clean for having wrote his two-movement, "London" Sonata in D major sat for many decades without having ever been deeply (Hob XVI: 51) for Mrs. Park and her husband, Thomas, a cleaned or disturbed. The finish was original and largely respected engraver. intact. The piano came to the attention of pianist Patrick Hawkins as he cast While I knew numerous well- about for a suitable early piano appro- engineered recordings of Haydn's mu- priate to a wide range of music, and I sic, none existed of Park's composi- was able to encourage Patrick to ac- tions performed upon an original in- quire this one. strument—let alone a square piano! To add to this, I had discovered that William Geib (b. 1793, d. 1860) Sonata in E-flat major, Op. 4, and "A was the youngest son of John Geib Waltz" had never been recorded. With Sr., who had made his reputation with the Geib in hand, I saw an opportunity the invention of the English Double of good fortune to be able to showcase action and as a large London piano this music and Navona Records (a maker in the last quarter of the 18th C. PARMA label) agreed to support the A full history of John Geib Sr. in Lon- recording, marketing, and distribution don can be found in “John Geib: Be- of the compact disc. yond the Footnote” by Thomas Strange with Jenny Nex. John Geib At first glance the date of 1831 for Sr. brought his family to America to a piano appears as being somewhat too settle in New York in September late or too Romantic for the interpreta- 1797, and rapidly established the or- tion of music by Haydn (1732-1809) gan and piano manufacturing firm that and Maria Park (1760-1813). How- would survive for the next 6 decades, William Geib ca. 1850 ever, Geib had been very conservative and flourish through the period of in his building style when fashioning stewardship under William. Piano production was begun in this instrument; the piano boasts six octaves and a sustain earnest under John Geib Sr. and his oldest son John Jr. in pedal without the aid of any interior metal frame to support 1800, where the firm produced upwards of 60 pianos per high-tension wire. This along with a responsive action and year, selling for between $200 and $400 each. John Jr. took a warm tone makes it rather similar to square pianos built in over the business in 1815 when his father retired, and part- England several years earlier. Listeners might also be inter- nered with his twin brother Adam from 1816 to 1818, when ested to know that Mrs. Park composed her Sonata in E-flat William then joined as a partner, the firm then being styled for the English pianist William Dance (1755-1840). One as J, A, & W Geib. John Jr. died unexpectedly in 1821 and can see that the 1831 date of the Geib square is contempo- his twin brother Adam continued as a partner with the rary with the later years of Dance, Thomas Park (1759- younger William until December 1827, after which William 1834), and even the great Muzio Clementi (1752-1832). took full control of manufacturing the pianos and Adam Thanks to Navona Records, Jeff Francis (recording engi- took control of the music store. neer and faculty member at the University of South Caro- lina), Dr. Joseph Rackers (recording producer and Ass. Pro- William remained conservative but flexible in his ap- fessor of Piano at USC), and Tom Strange (restorer) you proach to building pianos, implementing well established can enjoy a bit of time-travel when listening to Haydn and (Continued on page 15) the English Lady. 14 (Continued from page 14, left column) lever hinges were also brittle, as well as the damper lever ideas such as relocating the tuning pins to the rear of the hinges, and all were replaced. piano and introducing the iron string plate to free up sound- board area. He operated the firm under his own name from The jack hinges are parchment, very stiff and very 1828 until mid-1834, with the years of 1829 to 1832 among long lasting. Jacks have limited travel and remain quite the highest production volumes the firm ever saw in Amer- stiff, so vellum is used there but nowhere else. Four of the ica. In 1834 he began to disengage from the business, pre- hammers were bad replacements and new ones were made ferring to spend his time studying homeopathic medicine. for the piano to the same specifications as their neighbors. By 1838 he had moved to Philadelphia to become a doctor In addition to replacing the hinges, the butt of the under (at age 45!) He wrote a number of popular tunes of the day, lever action leather had been rubbed by the Jack head dur- was well published in his particular field of medicine, and ing play for many decades, and in the middle 4 octaves it was financially well off when he died in 1860. was badly worn and was replaced in deer. For this piano, we decided not to replace the hammer coverings, and in- This Geib piano was deed the music it now makes bought new by the Stark seems to justify this deci- family in Stark, New York sion. This piano also had where it remained until per- most of its original strings haps ten years ago. It was with the original bright fin- obviously a treasured posses- ish showing, and only need- sion, and was played fre- ing cleaning. Two brass quently enough to show wires had been replaced with wear on the ivory key cov- iron and this mistake from ers, but not to the point of the past was reversed with exhaustion, as the hammers Rose English Brass wire of were only lightly grooved the correct diameter. and it had been meticulously kept closed up and never The case finish issues were used for a plant stand or attended to in as light a man- similar insult! ner as possible. The missing Set up for recording “Haydn and the English Lady” CD veneer bits were cut to shape The hammer hinges had in Columbia SC. and matched back in as failed and the hammers were seamlessly as possible. The loose but accounted for. Tan- legs were cleaned and the ning techniques had been scaled up to meet demand for finish consolidated and the entire instrument given a light cheap hinge leather as piano manufacturing expanded, and microcrystalline wax final finish. There is a slight warp in the leather that was produced ultimately became brittle the instrument, as with almost all early square pianos, but with oxidation and use, and often failed within a few dec- this does not affect play or stability and was left alone as ades of manufacture. Geib 6714 had already had one cam- intervention is usually unsuccessful. You can learn more at paign of hammer hinge replacement and these second http://www.navonarecords.com/haydnandtheenglishlady/ hinges had failed as well, such that a third set of the proper leather type was required. Not unexpectedly, the under The HKSNA Nominating Committee (Judith Conrad, chair, Larry Palmer, and Rebecca Pechefsky) has selected and hereby presents a slate of nominees for officers and directors-at-large for your consideration and vote at the upcom- ing annual meeting in Montreal, Canada. Nominations will also be accepted from the floor. Nominees for Officers, serving two-year terms until June 30, 2017. Secretary: David C. Kelzenberg Treasurer: Helen Skuggedal Reed Nominees for the Board of Directors, serving three-year terms until June 30, 2018. Martha Folts Patrick Hawkins Max Yount 15 A NOTE FROM THE EKJ EDITOR: SOON TO COME!: EARLY KEYBOARD JOURNAL VOLUME 30 John Koster fter much too long (I freely admit!) the next issue Preliminary work is already under way for vol. 31, of Early Keyboard Journal, volume 30 with the which should be ready for distribution around the end of this Anominal date 2013, is nearly ready to go into pro- year or early in 2016. In the meantime, I will be retiring duction. We anticipate that it will be printed and distributed from my position at the National Music Museum in June to HKSNA members and subscribers this spring. It will fea- and moving back to New England. It will hardly be a retire- ture the articles: ment, as I have notes and ideas for several dozen projects (articles, books …), and, needless to say, I look forward to • Glen Wilson, “The Other Mr Couperin” more time to devote to the EKJ.
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