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Preface / by Alan Shestack, Director of the Museum -- Foreword / by Sam Quigley, Keeper of Musical Instruments -- Introduction / by John Koster -- The catalogue. Harpsichord, unknown maker, Italy (probably Naples), about 1550 -- Polygonal virginal, Joseph Salodiensis, Italy 1574 -- Clavichord, unknown maker, Italy, end of the sixteenth or early seventeenth century -- Virginal, attributed to Francesco Poggio, Florence, about 1605-1634 -- Virginal (Muselar), Andreas Ruckers the Elder, Antwerp, 1610 -- Harpsichord, unknown maker, Paris, 1667 -- Harpsichord, Joseph Joannes Couchet, Antwerp, 1680, with alterations and additions by François-Etienne Blanchet (I), Paris, 1758, and by Pascal Taskin, Paris 1781 -- Regal, Simon Bauer or C. E., Southern Germany or Austria, 1692 -- Organ (positive), unknown maker, Southern Germany or Austria, about 1700 -- Spinet, Stephen Keene, London, 1700 -- Keyed metallophone, unknown maker, Italy, probably 1675-1750 -- Spinet, unknown maker, England, about 1730-1750 -- Harpsichord, Henri Hemsch, Paris, probably 1736 -- Harpsichord with additional piano action, Jacob Kirckman, London, 1758, with alterations and additions by Joseph Merlin, London, 1779 -- Spinet, Thomas Haxby, York, 1764 -- Chamber organ, unknown maker, England, third quarter of the eighteenth century -- Square piano, Johann Christoph Zumpe and Gabriel Buntebart, London, 1770 -- Square piano, Longman, Lukey and Co., London, 1770 -- Spinet, John Harris, Boston, 1771 -- Harpsichord, Burkat Shudi and John Broadwood, London, 1772 -- Grand piano (originally Saitenharmonika?), Johann Andreas Stein, Augsburg, 1783 -- Square piano, attributed to James Henry Houston (made for John Bland), London, early 1790s -- Chamber organ, John Avery, London, 1792 -- Clavichord, Johann Christoph Georg Schiedmayer, Neustadt an der Aisch, 1796 -- Grand piano, John Broadwood and Son, London, 1796 (with case decoration designed by Thomas Sheraton) -- Harpsichord, Joseph Kirckman, London, 1798 -- Clavichord, Johann Gottlob Horn's heirs and Heinrich Rudolph Mack, Dresden, 1800 -- Square piano, Benjamin Crehore, Milton (Massachusetts), about 1800 -- Grand piano, John Broadwood and Son, London, 1804 -- Square piano, Melchior Guante, Münster (Westphalia, Germany), about 1805 -- Square piano, George Astor and Co., London, about 1805-1810 -- Square piano, John Geib and Son, New York, about 1808-1809 -- Upright grand piano, Clementi and Co., London, 1819 -- Workbox piano, Johann Christian Friedrich Grüneberg, Halle an der Saale, 1820 -- Square piano, Alpheus Babcock, Boston, 1822-1824 -- Square piano, Alpheus Babcock, Boston, probably 1826 -- Grand piano, unknown maker, Austria, about 1825 -- Square piano, John Osborne, Boston, 1824-1826 -- Square piano, John Tallman, New York, first half of the 1830s -- Upright piano (Lyraflügel), Johann Christian Schleip, Berlin, about 1835 -- Upright piano (Pianino), Ignace Pleyel et Cie., Paris, 1843 -- Melodeon, Prince and Co., Buffalo (New York), probably 1847 -- Seraphine, Packard Brothers, North Bridgewater (now Brockton, Massachusetts), about 1850 -- Square piano, with Aeolian attachment, Timothy Gilbert and Co., Boston, 1854 -- "Cocked hat" piano, Chickering and Sons, Boston, 1858 -- Grand piano, Hallet, Davis and Co., Boston, probably 1859 -- Melodeon, Prescott Brothers, Concord (New Hampshire), about 1860 -- Book harmonium, attributed to Alexandre Père et Fils, Paris, about 1880 -- Chamber organ, Hilborne L. Roosevelt, Philadelphia, 1885 or 1886 -- Clavicytherium, Leopoldo Franciolini, Florence, about 1895 (with earlier material) -- Steinertone piano action, Morris Steinert, New Haven, about 1899 -- Appendices. Appendix A. Modern instruments of historical type ; Appendix B. Wood terminology ; Appendix C. Glossary. |
