Claget & Gibson

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Dates Active in Dublin: 

? – 1764 (1790?)

Business Type: 
Musical instrument maker: guitar
Details: 

Partnership between Charles Clagget and William Gibson.

[Dates differ according to sources: Gogan and Doyle date the surviving instrument at 1790, however a letter in Clagget's own hand (extant in Birmingham City Library Archives, transcribed and published by Barlow) states that the partnership ended 'above a year since' 1765.]

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Produced

  • English guitar (no. 100), 1790: National Museum of Ireland (Gogan; Doyle)
    • See Also: 

    Clagget, Charles
    Gibson, William

    Source(s): 

    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. 28)

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    Lawrence, Thomas, ‘The History of the Guitar in Ireland 1760-1866’, 2 vols (unpublished doctoral thesis, University College Dublin, 1999), I, p. 26

    Barlow, Chris, 'Lute and English Guitar in a Musical Correspondence of the 1760s', The Lute, 52 (2012), 20–29 (p. 25)

    Boydell, Brian, ‘Claget & Gibson’, Dublin Music Trade Card Index <http://dublinmusictrade.ie/card-index>

    Last Update: 17-05-2018