Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Grenser

สถานที่: Lipprechtsroda

เกิด: 1764

ความตาย: 1813

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Heinrich Grenser was a German musical instrument maker. He was apprenticed to his uncle, August Grenser, from 1779 to 1786 and took over the shop in 1796. Grenser invented an early form of bass clarinet in 1793 and may have been the inventor of the alto clarinet, beginning production in 1808. He died in Dresden in 1813. A 1978 inventory lists 127 surviving instruments by Grenser, most of them bassoons and flutes, but also including basset horns, clarinets, oboes, fagottini, and one each of bass clarinet, cor anglais, oboe d'amore, bass horn, contrabassoon, hunting horn, and recorder.