Early Keyboard Instruments in European Museums

Readers are invited on a guided tour of the more important and unusual holdings in 47 museums in 16 European countries, such as the Cristofori pianos in Rome and Leipzig, The Hague's 1769 clavicytherium, and the most copied harpsichord in the world, a 1769 instrument by Taskin in Edinburgh.

Here you can learn about the important contributions of such builders as Broadwood, Dulcken, Graf, Hass, Kirkman, Mietke, the Ruckers family, Shudi, the Silbermanns, Stein, Streicher (the first female piano builder), Walter and Zenti. Elements of appearance, sound and playing mechanism of individual harpsichords, clavichords and early pianos are explored, as well as their historical significance, relationship to other instruments and the changes (good and bad) wrought by restorations.

The authors provide travelers with essential information on each museum and a short description of the city in which it is located (information based on their own experience conducting tours to many of these collections). This generously illustrated book concludes with a glossary of technical terms and an index of makers. Cloth, 304 pp., 119 b&w photos. Indiana University Press 0-253-33239-7.

Contents
Preface by George Lucktenberg    Acknowledgments    Introduction
I. Austria	Eisenstadt	Burgenländische Landesmuseen
		Joseph Haydn Museum
		Franz List Museum
	Salzburg	Mozart's Birthplace
		Museum Carolino Augusteum
	Vienna	Kunsthistorisches Museum
		Technisches Museum für Industrie und Gewerbe
II. Belgium	Antwerp:	Vleeshuis Museum
		Plantin-Moretus Museum
	Bruges	Gruuthuse Museum
	Brussels	Musée Instrumental de Bruxelles
III. Czech Republic	Prague	National Museum
IV. Denmark	Copenhagen	Musikhistorisk Museum og Carl Claudis' Samling
V.France	Paris	Musée de la Musique; Musée des Arts et Métiers
VI. Germany	Bad Krozingen	Neumeyer-Junghanns-Tracey Collection
	Berlin	Schloss Charlottenburg
		Stattlisches Institute for Musikforschung Preussischer Kulturbesitz
	Eisenach	Bach-Haus
	Halle	Händel-Haus
	Hamburg	Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe
		Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte
	Leipzig	Musikinstrumenten-Museum der Universität Leipzig
	Munich	Deutsches Museum
		Städtische Instrumentensaamlung der Stadt München
	Nuremberg	Germanisches Nationalmuseum
	Stuttgart	Württembergisches Landesmuseum
VII. Hungary	Budapest	Hungarian National Museum
VIII. Ireland	Dublin	National Museum of Ireland
IX. Italy	Florence	Museo degli Strumenti Musicali del Conservatorio de Musica Luigi Cherubini
	Milan	Museo degli Strumenti Musicali, Castello Sforzesco
	Rome	Museo Nazionale degli Strumenti Musicali
X. The Netherlands	The Hague	Gemeentemuseum
XI. Norway	Oslo	Norsk Folk Museum
	Trondheim	Ringve Museum
XII. Portugal	Lisbon	Museu da Música
XIII. Spain	Barcelona	Museu de la Música
XIV. Sweden	Stockholm	Stiftensen Musikkulturens främjande
		Musikmuseet
XV. Switzerland	Basel	Historisches Museum
XVI. United Kingdom	Edinburgh	University of Edinburgh Collection
	Goudhurst	Finchcocks Collection
	Liverpool	Liverpool Museum
	London	Fenton House
		Royal College of Music Collection
		Victoria and Albert Museum
	Oxford	Bate Collection of Musical Instruments
Glossary
Index of Makers