Title: Makers of the piano /
Authors: Clinkscale, Martha Novak.
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 1993
Subjects: Piano Construction; Piano History; Piano makers.
Abstract: The early piano has grown in popularity over recent years. It is now recognized as a window to the past and indispensable in revealing the sounds in the ears of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century composers. Yet rarely are two instruments more than superficially alike: the earliest instruments were constructed individually to the taste of each maker and often to that of his customer. Furthermore, pianos built in the same year by the same maker - even in a series - often have not enjoyed the same standard of conservation: one may have its original strings and hammers, while another may have suffered the improper replacement of its entire action with parts designed for the modern Steinway.
Contents: Vol. [1] 1700-1820 -- v. 2. 1820-1860 / drawings by John R. Watson.