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Clagget, Charles

Dates Active in Dublin: 

c.1763–1765

Business Type: 
General music shop
Musical instrument seller: guitar
Address(es): 

c/o the Right Honourable the Earl of Charleville in Doublin

Details: 

Brother of Walter Clagget. About 1760 he published music with Walter in Edinburgh.

Barlow states (without citation) that Clagget 'alongside his work inventing and patenting musical inventions ran a music shop'.

Dublin agent for James Watt (1763-1819) from 1763, purchasing 'mostly guitars (presumably of the English type) made by Watt's employee Robert Allan (Holman).

Partnered with William Gibson as Clagget & Gibson until c.1764: 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.

After the Gibson partnership ended, Clagget wrote to Watt suggesting a partnership and offering 'to explain all the improvements that Gibson had made to guitars'. This partnership did not materialise (Holman).

See Also: 

Claget & Gibson
Gibson, William

Source(s): 

Holman, Peter, Life After Death: The Viola da Gamba in Britain from Purcell to Dolmetsch (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2010), pp. 165-6

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