About József Schunda
Lived 1818 – 1893 (aged 74–75). József Schunda was a musical instrument maker.
József Schunda (1818–1893) and Vencel József Schunda (19 May 1845 – 26 January 1923) were uncle and nephew Czech musical instrument makers.
József Schunda started a workshop in Pest in 1848, and his brother joined him as an apprentice in 1856, advancing to become a partner, and later the owner of the factory. The workshop produced the first pedaled Hungarian concert cimbalom in 1874 and also redesigned a modern tárogató, a clarinet-like instrument specific to Hungary. The workshop was closed in World War II.
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József Schunda was born in 1818 in Sibřina.
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József Schunda died in 1893 in Esztergom.
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