Leitner from Ewing & McIntosh

[Barrie Heaton]

Not found any info in the usual places However, the piano may have been named after Karl August Leitner (ca. 1850): the composer

Perhaps like Clementi Mr Leitner was involved in selling pianos and used his name to sell them you
could try one of the German piano pages and ask there

http://www.pianonews.de/

Barrie,

[Bill Kibby]

Ewing & M'Intosh were at Sauchiehall Street for almost a century, so unless there are other addresses, they don't help much. The nearest name I can find so far is Leistler, but I'll see whar else I can turn up. As for "only five were made" I wish I had a pound for every time I've heard that. Next, they'll be saying it was made for the Queen Mary.

[Bill Kibby]

It's important to understand that there are very few pianos around that are as old as 1775, and NO upright pianos whatsoever - they didn't exist in that form. Sconces were mainly found on upright pianos between about 1820 and 1920, so they don't help much. If you type pianogen into your internet address bar, you can send me photos, and I can tell you more, or even compile a complete report.

[Bill Kibby]

They were in Sauchiehall Street from at least the 1880s to the 1930s, by which time they were "Ltd.", so the name is no great help in judging anything about the piano. Doesn't it say who "manufactured expressly" for them?

[rosielee]

Hello, I also have a Ewing and M'Intosh,(Glasgow) piano, and are wondering if you have any information on them.

[Bill Kibby]

Apart from the information above, I can always deal with enquiries and reports through my website.

[jim nelson]

I found your website last evening and thought you might be interested in the following:

My great grandmother Jane Gold nee Ewing was the sister of James Ewing who co-founded the firm of Ewing & Mackintosh with premises in Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow.

James was blind from birth and trained as a piano tuner, sometimes travelling by train to outlying places to carry out his business. It was said that on a first visit to a client he would ask directions from railway station staff and passers by and those directions were locked in his memory so he never needed to ask again on future visits.

I cannot tell you much about the firm other than that they were "By Appointment" to the Royal Family and that one of their upright models was named "The Bell" piano.

I have a faded photograph of James and his wife Hettie and another of his sister Marion who married one James Millar, the head french polisher at the Ewing & Mackintosh factory.

[Bill Kibby]

Thanks for that. If you ever get around to scanning the photo, it would be interesting to see it for our Piano History Centre.