Early Keyboard Instruments in European Museums Review

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Early Keyboard Instruments in European Museums ReviewWhat a curious book! To write it, the authors first spent years leading groups of American tourists through the great musical instrument museums of Europe, with the purpose of examining all the historical keyboard instruments they contain (harpsichords, clavichords, and fortepianos). This book simply describes what they found: city by city, museum by museum, instrument by instrument.
I recommend this book for for readers who already love early keyboard instruments and have already have read good general overviews, such as Frank Hubbard's _Three Centuries of Harpsichord Making_ or Kottick's own _A History of the Harpsichord_. While such books give you the big picture, this book gives you the raw data, as it were. It's the same field from a bottom-up rather than a top-down perspective. Of course, the book would be an excellent guide to follow if you want to do the same kind of musical tourism yourself. I've only been to two of the museums the authors describe, but I deeply enjoyed both visits and I'd like to go to more of them.
The book does contain a few dull passages, but the authors generally succeed in enlivening the list format with appreciative and knowledgeable descriptions, anecdotes, and the occasional catty remark.
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