One of Tom Goff's two-manual harpsichords (dated 1958) was just auctioned
this morning as no. 22 in in the Richard Burnett Collection sale (by
Dreweatts) in the UK. The hammer price was 3,800 pounds sterling (= 4,712
pounds with the auctioneers' fees).

Is it right that he and Cobby only made 15 of them? (Unlike the
clavichords, of which there were over 100.)

The best bargains seem to have been the organs, almost all of which sold
for well under the estimates. Someone bought the "late seventeenth-century"
chamber organ ("circa 1680 and late") for only 9,000 pounds.

On the whole the lots sold well, raising a substantial sum for the
Finchcocks Charity for Musical Education. And so one great collection is
dispersed as its instruments now enter other collections...

Best wishes,
DM



*Davitt MoroneyProfessor of Music; University OrganistDirector, University
Baroque Ensemble*

On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 6:26 PM, Andrew Bernard <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> Hi Peter,
>
> Such people do exist (!) and they may also be interested in the Radio New
> Zealand program on Violet Gordon Woodhouse:
>
>
> http://www.radionz.co.nz/concert/programmes/appointment/audio/201799991/violet-gordon-woodhouse
>
> The Goff #6 is shortly coming to our workshop here in Melbourne - where it
> now lives - for further renovation.
>
> Andrew
>
>
>
> On 9/05/2016, 7:10 AM, "Harpsichords and Related Topics on behalf of Peter
> Bavington" <[log in to unmask] on behalf of
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> >Listers who are interested in revival instruments and their history (I
> >know they exist!) might like to know that a radio programme about the
> >work of the harpsichord and clavichord maker Tom Goff has been made by
> >James Gardner for New Zealand radio.
>
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