The British Art Piano and Piano Design |
- by G. S. Gadd -
This lovely book provides a completely new position on the top of the
pianoforte, with the emphasis on design, taste, and social history. It
includes everything from the simplest Zumpe to the most exclusive
pianofortes. There are many fascinating and historical anecdotes.
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musical Instruments Museums Online
- The MIMO project is to be
aimed at achieving a single access for digital documentation and information
about musical instruments collections spread over several European museums.
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Paris,
museum of musical instruments.
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one of the most known restorers
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site of Bill Kibby with the history of the english pianoforte and also
collector of an important collections english pianfortes.
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Numérique Conservatoire des
Arts et Métiers
(exhibitions in the 19th century in Paris)
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Museum of musical instruments, Brussels,
Belgium
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- A site dedicated to the automatic pianos, of
Giovanni Vitiello, Bologna, Italy
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'Sketches
from the history of the Polish piano industry of the 20th century'
(Szkice z dziejów polskiego przemysłu fortepianowego XX wieku
Aktualności, Ośrodek Dokumentacji Fortepianów), 2022, by Janusz Starzyk
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- Belgian Art links and Tools, image database in which to find pianos
in Belgian museums.
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- - in Kent, England
- (Restorer of Beethoven's and Chopin's pianoforte, and seller of
ERARD,
BOISSELOT, PLEYEL, GAVEAU, Gabriel GAVEAU, and many other pianoforte
marks ...)
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La restauration des pianos anciens des origines à
1850, Alain Moysan.
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association around research and protection of the French patrimony of pianofortes, with a collection of French, Viennese fortepianos.
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with beautiful musical examples played on fortepiano's ....
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harpsichord builder and restorer, with many examples of PLEYEL's upright pianofortes, the favorite instruments of Chopin.
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by Jean LOUCHET
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restores in Paris
and here their blog
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- in Limoux
with many
examples of French pianos for 1850
Article :
'Jean-Jacques Trinques, facteur de pianos depuis six
générations'
and director of the above
museum.
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Strojenie
fortepianów w teorii i praktyce |
– książka do pobrania (Piano Tuning in Theory and Practice -
Downloadable book), by Janusz Starzyk, 2024
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- with information about its spending on the history of the manufacture of instruments in France and Belgium
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all about PLEYEL, ERARD,
BOISSELOT and some other pianofortes
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site with the whole collection of instruments in the Musical Instrument
Museum in Brussels, including the reserves.
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- restorer of Historical pianofortes in
Bordeaux, France.
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"Walking his two young children to school every morning, Thad
Carhart passes an unassuming little storefront in his Paris
neighbourhood. Intrigued by its simple sign—Desforges Pianos—he
enters, only to have his way barred by the shop’s imperious owner.
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The piano shop on the Left Bank:
Thaddeus
Carhart, 2002
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site with alphabetical list piano brands and large photo archive
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site with
collected works of famous musicologists.
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Pianoforte dealer in Liège,
Belgium, but also a collector of old documents
about pianoforte marks and on the history of
pianofortes.
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