Early Keyboard Bibliography

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Early Piano
AUTHOR	TITLE	PUBLICATION DETAILS	ISBN
-	»Durch den bloßen Druck der Finger …« — 300 Jahre Hammerklavier	Germanischen Nationalmuseums Nürnberg 2000 DEUTSCH	3 926982 64 0
Ahrens, Christian	Hammerklaviere mit Wiener Mechanik	Verlag Erwin Bochinsky 1999 DEUTSCH	3 923 639 34 1
Barigazzi, Giuseppe; van der Meer, John Henry; Di Castro, Daniela; & Latham, Michael	Walter e Stein gli strumenti di Mozart • Mozart’s piano makers Walter and Stein	Villa Medici Giulini 2006 ITALIANO & ENGLISH	-
Beghin, Tom	Beethoven’s French Piano: A Tale of Ambition and Frustration	University of Chicago Press 2022	978 0 226 818355 1
Beurmann, Andreas	Das Buch vom Klavier	Georg Olms Verlag 2007 DEUTSCH	978 3 487 08472 5
Blom, Eric	The Romance of the Piano	Foulis London 1928	-
Breitman, David	Piano-Playing Revisited: What Modern Players Can Learn from Period Instruments	Boydell & Brewer Ltd 2021	978 1 64825 010 1
Brinsmead, Edgar	History of the Pianoforte	Novello, Ewer & Co 1879	-
Burnett, Richard	Company of Pianos	Finchcocks Press 2004	1 903942 35 7
Clark, Julian H	Some things you always wanted to know about the Fortepiano but never had time to ask	Clark 1994	-
Clinkscale, Martha Novak	Makers of the Piano 1700–1820	Oxford University Press 1995	0 19 81632 1
Clinkscale, Martha Novak	Makers of the Piano Volume 2 1820–1860	Oxford University Press 1999	0 19 8166257
Closson, Ernest	History of the Piano	Paul Elek 1976	0 236 17685 4
Cobbe, Alec	Chopin’s Swansong — the Paris and London pianos of his last performances now in the Cobbe Collection	The Chopin Society and The Cobbe Collection Trust 2010	978 0 9538203 3 7
Cogan, Ritchie [prod]	Early Keyboard Instruments at the Victoria & Albert Museum	HSMO 1980	0 11 290333 9
Cole, Michael	Broadwood Square Pianos	Tatchley Books 2005	0 9551777 0 7
Cole, Michael	The Pianoforte in the Classical Era	Clarendon Press Oxford 2003	0 19 816634 6
Colt, C F with Miall, Antony	The Early Piano	Stainer & Bell	0 85249 572 2
Crombie, David	Piano — Evolution, Design and Performance	Barnes & Noble 2000	0 7607 2026 6
Dahlström, Fabian	Finländsk Klavertillverkning före år 1900 samt beskrivning av Sibeliusmuseets inhemska klaversamlung	Hangö Tryckeri Ab Hangö 1978 SVENSKA	951 648 359 3
Dolge, Arthur	Pianos and their Makers — A Comprehensive History of the Development of the Piano	Dover 1972	0 486 22856 8
Dufetel, Nicolas et al	Liszt e il suono de Érard — Arte e musica nell Romanticismo parigino • Liszt and the Érard Sound — Art and Music in Parisian Romanticism • Liszt et le son Érard — Art et musique dans le Romantisme parisien	Villa Medici Giulini 2011 ITALIANO, ENGLISH & FRANÇAIS	978 88 95325 07 1
Gadd, G S	The British Art Piano and Piano Design — Volume 1 The handiness of an African elephant	The Very Yellow Press 2006	978 0 9553264 0 0
Gétreau, Florence et al	Chopin e il suono de Pleyel — Arte e musica nella Parigi romantica • Chopin and the Pleyel Sound — Art and Music in Romantic Paris • Chopin et le son Pleyel — Art et musique dans le Paris romantique	Villa Medici Giulini 2010 ITALIANO, ENGLISH & FRANÇAIS	978 88 95325 05 7
Gill, Dominic [ed]	The Book of the Piano	Phaidon 1981	0 7148 2036 9
Gleich, Clemens von	Pianofortes uit de Lage Landen • Pianofortes from the Low Countries	Frits Knuf 1980 NEDERLANDS & ENGLISH	-
Good, Edwin M	Giraffes, Black Dragons, and Other Pianos — A Technological History from Cristofori to the Modern Concert Grand	Stanford University Press 1982	0 8047 1120 8
Goold, Madeline	Mr. Langshaw’s Square Piano — The Story of the First Pianos and How They Caused a Cultural Revolution	BlueBridge 2009	978 1 933346 21 2
Hannon, Michael	Mrs Findlay's Broadwood Square Piano	Ranmoor Publications 2015	978 0 9931814 1 2
Harding, Rosamond E M	The Piano-Forte — Its History traced to the Great Exhibition of 1851	Cambridge 1933	-
Hester, Richard	Introduction to the Fortepiano in 20 Questions more or less	Hester 1987	-
Hipkins, A J	A Description and History of the Pianoforte and of the Older Keyboard Stringed Instruments	Novello, Ewer & Co 1896	-
Hirt, Franz Josef	Meisterwerke des Klavierbaus — Stringed Keyboard Instruments	Urs Graf Verlag 1981 DEUTSCH & ENGLISH	3 85951 135 1
Hollis, Helen Rice	The Musical Instruments of Joseph Haydn — An Introduction	Smithsonian Institution Press 1977	-
Hollis, Helen Rice	The Piano — A Pictorial Account of Its Ancestry and Development	Hippocrene Books 1975	0 88254 324 5
Hollis, Helen Rice	Pianos in the Smithsonian Institution	Smithsonian Institution Press 1973	-
Hood, Margaret	Fortepiano Maintenance Manual	Margaret Hood Fortepianos 1998	-
James, Philip	Early Keyboard Instruments from their beginnings to the year 1820	Frederick A Stokes NY 1930	-
Johnson Poletti, Janine	Viennese Fortepiano Maintenance and Repair Guide	Johnson Poletti 1988	-
Juramie, Ghislaine	Histoire du Piano	Collection Orion FRANÇAIS	-
Kildea, Paul	Chopin’s Piano — A Journey Through Romanticism	Penguin Books 2019	978 014 198056 0
Kjeldsberg, Peter Andreas	Piano i Norge	C Huitfeldt Forlag 1985 NORSK	82 7003 060 0
Komlós, Katalin	Fortepianos and their Music	Clarendon Press Oxford 1995	0 19 816426 2
Koster, John	Keyboard Musical Instruments in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts	MFA 1994	0 87846 401 8
Lancaster, Geoffrey Richard	The First Fleet Piano—A Musician’s View Volume One	ANU Press 2015	978 1922 144 645
Lancaster, Geoffrey Richard	The First Fleet Piano—A Musician’s View Volume Two Appendices	ANU Press 2015	978 1925 022 483
Lancaster, Geoffrey	Culliford, Rolfe and Barrow: A Tale of Ten Pianos	UWA Publishing 2017	978 1 74258 937 4
Larson, Paul & Traupman-Carr, Carol [eds]	The Square Piano in Rural Pennsylvania 1760–1830	Payne Gallery of Moravian College 2001	0 9621345 3 8
Leschiutta, Sigfrido	Appunti per Una Bibliografia sul Clavicembale Clavicordo e Fortepiano	G Zanibon Padova 1983 ITALIANO	-
Lustig, Monika [ed]	Zur Geschichte des Hammerklaviers [14.Musikinstrumentenbau-Symposium in Michaelstein]	Michaelstein 1996 DEUTSCH & ENGLISH	3 89512 098 7
Mazzocca, Fernando; O’Brien, Grant; Di Stefano, Giovanni Paolo; Galli, Lavinia & Bazzi, Andreina	Schanz lo strumento dei Principi — Arte e musica nella Milano dell’Ottocento al tempo di Cristina Archinto Trivulzio • Schanz the instrument of Princes — Art and music in the [sic] nineteenth century Milan at the time of Cristina Archinto Trivulzio	Villa Medici Giulini 2008 ITALIANO & ENGLISH	978 88 95325 02 6
McCombie, Ian	The Piano Handbook	Reed 1980	0 589 50237 9
Michel, N E	Historical Pianos — Harpsichords & Clavichords	N E Michel 1970	-
Montal, Claude; Sturm, Fred [tr]	The Art of Tuning — A Self-Guided Manual for Piano Tuning, Design, Action Regulation, and Repair from mid–19th-Century France	Piano Technicians Guild Foundation 2015	978 0 9861851 0 6
Pierce, W Robert	Pierce Piano Atlas	Bob Pierce 1982	0 911138 02 1
Pollens, Stewart	The Bonafinis Spinet: an early harpsichord converted into a Tangent Piano	JAMIS 1987	-
Pollens, Stewart	The Early Pianoforte	Cambridge 1995	0 521 41729 5
Pollens, Stewart	The Pianos of Bartolomeo Cristofori	JAMIS 1984	-
Pollens, Stewart	Bartolomeo Cristofori and the Invention of the Piano	Cambridge University Press 2017	978 1 107 09657 8
Reblitz, Arthur A	Piano Servicing Tuning & Rebuilding	Vestal Press 1984	0 911572 12 0
Renouf, Nicholas	Musical Instruments in the Viennese Tradition: 1750–1850	Yale University Collection of Musical Instruments 1981	-
Rimbault, E F	The Pianoforte — Its origin, progress, and construction	Robert Cocks and Co 1860	-
Roell, Craig H	The Piano in America	University of North Carolina Press 1993	0 8078 1802 X
Rose, Malcolm & Law, David	A Handbook of Historical Stringing Practice for Keyboard Instruments	Rose & Law 1991	0 9518590 0 5
Rosenblum, Sandra P	Performance Practices in Classic Piano Music	Indiana University Press 1988	0 253 20680 4
Russell, Raymond	Victoria & Albert Museum Catalogue of Musical Instruments — Vol 1 Keyboard Instruments	Her Majesty’s Stationery Office 1968	-
Sadie, Stanley [ed]	The New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments (3 vols)	Macmillan Press Limited 1984	0 333 37878 4
de Silva, Preethi	The Fortepiano Writings of Streicher, Dieudonné, and the Schiedmayers: Two Manuals and a Notebook, Translated from the Original German, with Commentary	Mellon Press 2009	978 0 7734 4874 2
Smith, Eric	Pianos — care and restoration	Lutterworth Press 1980	0 7188 2463 6
Steinway, Henry Z [forward]; Libin, Laurence [introduction]	The New-York Book of Prices for Manufacturing Piano-fortes by the Society of Journeymen Piano-forte Makers New York 1835	American Musical Instrument Society, Inc 2009	0 913499 31 5
Steinway, Theordore E	People and Pianos — A century of service to music	Steinway & Sons New York 1953	-
Strange, Thomas; Hawkins, Patrick; & Hara, Kunio	Facing South: Keyboard Instruments in the Early Carolinas	Clemson University Press 2018	978 1 9429 5470 5
Andreas Streicher; da Silva, Preethi [trans]	Brief Remarks on the Playing, Tuning, and Care of Fortepianos Made in Vienna by Nanette Streicher née Stein	Early Music Facsimiles 1983	-
Sumner, William Leslie	The Pianoforte	St Martin’s Press New York 1971	-
Unger-Hamilton, Clive	Keyboard Instruments	Phaidon 1981	0 7148 2177 2
Wainwright, David	Broadwood by Appointment	Quiller Press London 1982	0 907621 10 4
Winternitz, Emanuel	Keyboard Instruments in the Metropolitan Museum of Art	Metropolitan Museum of Art 1961	-
Vandervellen, Pascale	Pianos • Piano’s • Pianos	Mardaga 2000 FRANÇAIS, NEDERLANDS & ENGLISH	2 87009 734 4
Zilberquit, Dr Mark; Shirokov, Yuri S [trans]	The Book of the Piano — An Illustrated History	Paganiniana 1987	-

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