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Barry Evans wrote:
> The recording was made using
> the 1977 Philip Belt replica of Mozart's Anton Walter concert
> instrument.
This, too, was a fantasy instrument, and most certainly is not worthy of
the term "replica", nor "copy". "Inspired by" is probably about as
accurate as one can get. Until quite recently, nobody but nobody was
allowed to touch or exam the Holy Relic that is Mozart's Walter, so Belt
just sort of made it up working from a few photos. Had he been allowed
to examine the original, he would have been confronted by the fact that
the instrument has been significantly altered, replacing its original
action, work most certainly done by Walter himself, most likely around
1800, as can be seen from the similarity of the action parts to other
instruments of that time as well as Constanze's letter to her son saying
that Mr. Walter had been so kind as to give it a complete makeover.
All this stuff has been thoroughly gone over in the organology
literature in the last 10 years, as well as one the fortepiano yahoo list.
Ciao,
P
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