On Wed, 1 Jun 2016 09:11:28 +0200, J. Claudio Di Veroli <[log in to unmask]> wrote:


>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.

Beethoven's Broadwood is in the Hungarian National Museum in Budapest. In Bonn there's a Graf that was lent to Beethoven in his final years.
"Significant" can be discussed; significant for what, is the question. The piano has five tones more in the bass than the typical slightly earlier English 5 1/2-octave compass; altogether six octaves CC-c4.
The history of Beethoven's use of compass in his late years is rather complicated. if anyone's interested in the ins and outs of my ideas about this topic, there's a fairly new article "“A Brit in Vienna: Beethoven’s Broadwood Piano.” _Keyboard Perspectives_ 5/2012, 41-82.

Tilman

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