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Re: Pleyel harpsichords
From:
Lee Ridgway <[log in to unmask]>
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Harpsichords and Related Topics <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Mon, 7 Nov 1994 10:39:35 LCL
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> From: "Rodney N. Myrvaagnes" <[log in to unmask]>
> I have heard a recital there on a Chickering clavichord, made by
Arnold
> Dolmetsch about 1910, which I could hear from the balcony without
problem.
> I also had no trouble hearing Rogell's Pleyel, but didn't want to
after a
I don't know if Rodney ever heard one, but I've heard a couple of
Chickering harpsichords (with Dolmetsch?) and thought they were a lot
better sounding than the Pleyels I've heard (granted, this was all
after I had heard something more historically based).

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