Gibson & Woffington

Dates Active in Dublin: 

1775–1778

Business Type: 
Musical instrument maker: harpsichord
Musical instrument maker: organ
Musical instrument maker: piano
Details: 

Partnership of William Gibson and Robert Woffington.

[Dates differ according to sources: Flood ('Dublin Music Printing from 1750 to 1790') gives the dates as 1775 to 1778. Teahan gives 1778 only.]

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Produced

  • English guitar, 1776: National Museum of Ireland (Flood, 'Dublin Music Printing from 1750 to 1790'; Gogan; Doyle)
    • See Also: 

    Gibson, William
    Woffington, Robert

    Source(s): 

    Flood, W.H. Grattan, 'Dublin Harpsichord and Pianoforte Makers of the Eighteenth Century', The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 5th ser., 39.2 (1909), 137–45 (p. 141)

    Flood, W.H. Grattan, ‘Dublin Music Printing from 1750 to 1790’, The Bibliographical Society of Ireland: Short Papers, 2.5 (1923), 101–06 (pp. 105–06)

    Gogan, L.S., 'Musical Instrument Collections in the National Museum of Ireland', in Music in Ireland: a Symposium, ed. by Aloys Fleischmann (Cork: Cork University Press, 1952), pp. 299–307 (p. 304)

    Teahan, John, 'A List of Irish Instrument Makers', The Galpin Society Journal, 16 (May 1963), 28–32 (p. 29)

    Hogan, Ita Margaret, Anglo-Irish Music 1780–1830 (Cork: Cork University Press, 1966), p. 108

    Doyle, Paul, ‘18th Century Musical Instruments in the National Museum Dublin, with notes on an English Guitar 1764 by Gibson of Dublin’, FOMRHI Quarterly, 13 (October 1978), 21-24 (p. 23)

    Lawrence, Thomas, ‘The History of the Guitar in Ireland 1760-1866’, 2 vols (unpublished doctoral thesis, University College Dublin, 1999), I, p. 26

    Boydell, Brian, ‘Gibson, William (1)’, Dublin Music Trade Card Index <http://dublinmusictrade.ie/card-index>

    Boydell, Brian, ‘Gibson, William (2)’, Dublin Music Trade Card Index <http://dublinmusictrade.ie/card-index>

    Boydell, Brian, ‘Woffington, Robert (1)’, Dublin Music Trade Card Index <http://dublinmusictrade.ie/card-index>

    Last Update: 03-03-2017