> Gesine wrote: Broadwood and Son 1795 square piano ... $3000 ...
> Someone told us, Broadwood made an instrument for Beethoven.

Thanks Gesine!

The Fenton House, Hampstead, London, has a beautiful Broadwood Grand,
dated 1805, compass FF-c''''. I played it sometimes during my student years
in 1969-71 and again in July 2003, when I played on it Beethoven's Moonlight
Sonata, courtesy of the curator Mimi S. Waitzman. An unbelievable experience
not just for the place and feeling but for the instrument's beautiful sound
and very responsive, expressive and light action. 

The Beethoven's Broadwood is in the Beethoven-haus, Bonn: it is dated 1817
and was delivered to Beethoven the following year. In spite of his almost
absolute deafness, he kept composing for the piano (his last sonata was
completed five years later). This instrument is significantly larger than
the 1805 one, and goes down to CC. 

Lovely instruments indeed.

CDV
http://harps.braybaroque.ie/


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