Jacob Hochbrucker

Jacob Hochbrucker (wanda kuma aka rubuta Jakob Hochprugger ; 1673 - 28 ga Mayu 1763)  wani mai yin garaya ne na ƙarni na goma sha takwas kuma mawaƙi wanda aka yaba da ƙirƙirar garayar feda mai aiki ɗaya wacce aka shahara a Turai tsakanin 1729 da 1750 daga zuriyarsa, musamman ma Dauphine, Marie Antoinette, wacce ta yi waƙa a kanta bayan isowarta Paris a 1770. 

 Rayuwa da aiki 
An haifi Hochbrucker a Mindelheim . [1] Daga shekarar 1699 ya zauna kuma ya yi aiki a Donauwörth, inda ya kuma gina layu da viola. [2] A kusan shekarar 1720, Hochbrucker ya ƙirƙiro tsarin feda don buga garaya, yana ƙara feda biyar (daga baya ya ƙaru zuwa bakwai) a cikin kayan aikin kuma yana haɗa su da ƙugiya don igiyoyin C, D, F, G, da B, don haka yana ba wa ɗan wasa damar canza sautin kirtani na semitone kuma ya faɗaɗa kewayon kayan aikin don fitar da sautuka. Wannan tsarin chromatic mai ban sha'awa daga baya ya zama batun nazari da zurfafa la'akari.

A rabin na biyu na karni na 18, tsarin Hochbrucker ya sami karbuwa sosai ta hanyar kokarin 'yan uwansa, Christian da Celestine Hochbrucker, kuma galibi ɗansa Simon, wanda ya zagaya Turai yana wasa a Vienna a 1729, Leipzig, Brussels a 1734, Paris a 1740 da arewacin Jamus .  A farkon karni na 19, Sébastien Érard ya gina a Paris "harpe à double mouvement", wanda aka yi wa haƙƙin mallaka a 1810,  a ƙarshe ya canza hanyar abin da Hochbrucker ya ci gaba da nasara.

 Duba kuma 

 Gasa mai igiya
 Giya ta Bohemian

 Littattafan tarihi 

 R. Rensch: Giya. Tarihinsa, Fasaha da Repertoire (London/New York, 1969)

 Manazarta 
Tremmel (2003), see above.