As Stewart Pollens has documented, in late 18th century France it was believed that the piano had been invented not by Cristofori but by the German builder Gottfried Silbermann.
The cathedral features a carefully restored organ, the last work of the renowned organ builder Gottfried Silbermann.
In 1736, famed organ maker Gottfried Silbermann built a three-manual, 43-stop instrument for the church.
He was born in Kleinbobritzsch (now a part of Frauenstein, Saxony) as the youngest son of the carpenter Michael Silbermann.
This book examines the work of numerous makers, including Henri Arnaut de Zwolle, Bartolomeo Cristofori, Giovanni Ferrini, Domenico del Mela, Henrique Van Casteel, Joachim José Antunes, Francisco Pérez Mirabal, Gottfried Silbermann, and Christian Ernst Friederici.
A device similar to the damper pedal in effect was invented by the piano pioneer Gottfried Silbermann; it was operated by the player's hands rather than a pedal.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz | Gilbert Gottfried | Johann Gottfried Herder | Gottfried Keller | Gottfried von Einem | Gottfried Silbermann | Gottfried August Bürger | Johann Gottfried Schadow | Gottfried Ludolf Camphausen | Mike Gottfried | Johann Gottfried Gruber | Gottfried Semper | Martin Gottfried Weiss | Johannes Gottfried Hallier | Johann Andreas Silbermann | Heinrich Gottfried Ollendorff | Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus | Gottfried Reinhardt | Gottfried Kirch | Gottfried Helnwein | Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim | Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg | Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck | Ben Silbermann | ''Robin'' Alexander Wolfgang Udo Eugen Wilhelm Gottfried of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg | Paul Gottfried | Mark Gottfried | Kurt Gottfried | '''Karoline Bauer''' (in a white dress) with a group of artists, including Johann Gottfried Schadow | Johann Gottfried Zinn |