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Please send all requests to David at
friends.sp@btinternet.com
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To try and advance his research, Graham S. Gadd of 18, The Green, Twickenham, Middlesex TW2 5AA (email graham.gadd@btinternet.com ) would like to purchase:
Catalogues or Lists of British Piano Makers before 1900.
Billheads of British Piano Makers before 1900.
Ephemera such as Letters or Apprecnticeship documents, etc., of British Piano Makers before 1900.
Also pre-1900 photos showing Pianos or Pianists IN A DOMESTIC HOME SETTING (NOT commercial Postcards).
Please state sum required.
Catalogues or Lists of British Piano Makers before 1900.
Billheads of British Piano Makers before 1900.
Ephemera such as Letters or Apprecnticeship documents, etc., of British Piano Makers before 1900.
Also pre-1900 photos showing Pianos or Pianists IN A DOMESTIC HOME SETTING (NOT commercial Postcards).
Please state sum required.
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Register your Piano
Whatever else happens to your piano - or any pianos that you may know - we believe that it is vital that as many data as possible are collected and recorded. The 'ordinary' pianos are just as much a part of history as the 'special' ones. We hope that you are familiar with the two published volumes of piano data, both written by the distinguished academic Martha Novak Clinkscale, and published by Oxford University Press:
Makers of the Piano - Volume 1, 1700 - 1820, and Volume 2, 1820 - 1860.
We were recently saddened to hear of the untimely death of Martha, but her Colleague John Watson (of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation) will continue the work she started. The database which is the foundation for these two books will continue to be enlarged, and plans are in hand to make it available on-line. We all have a responsibility to contribute what we can to this, undoubtedly the leading collection of such information.
Please Register Your Piano by visiting www.earlypianos.org and filling in the simple on-line form. Pictures are of course a great help, and these can be sent to: info@earlypianos.org
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Broadwood Grand Register
Do you own, or know about a Broadwood Grand from the first fifty years: 1787- 1837? If so, please go to www.fortepiano.co.uk to contribute to the register being compiled by David Hunt.