Chelveston 2024

Our Friends of Square Pianos gatherings, originally held at Finchcocks, have always been well-supported, and since we moved to my home village of Chelveston in Northamptonshire we have enjoyed a full house.  In 2023 for the first time we held the party in our beautiful village church, and we will enjoy the enhanced space when we will meet on Saturday April 6.  As usual, there will be an assembly of about twenty early keyboard instruments, some original, the oldest a spinet from 1704.  There will be at least three square pianos, as well as more recently-built spinets, harpsichords, and clavichords.  The day will be informal, with plenty of opportunity to make friends, play the instruments, and enjoy tea-breaks and a buffet lunch. 

There will be many other musical interludes, including songs from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by our lovely soprano Angie Hicks, accompanied by David Wright.

One of our friends very kindly made a short video of the 2023 party which may be viewed by clicking Here

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