Description
"Information for when you travel. By country and city, you areguided to the best instrument collections in Europe. For each site is provided asubstantial discussion of the instruments, location, address, and hours ofadmission. There are abundant black and white (many full-page) photos, a glossary ofterms associated with earlier instruments, and an index of makers." -- Piano& Keyboard Growing out of the authors' visits to 47collections in Europe, this lively guidebook offers intimate glimpses at a greatvariety of instruments. It focuses on the more important and unusual holdings ineach museum, such as the Cristofori pianos in Rome and Leipzig and the earliestknown English double-manual instrument -- a 1700 harpsichord by Tisseran, now inOxford. In addition, the authors provide travelers with essential information foreach museum.
