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 GERMAN	3 926982 64 0
Ahrens, Christian	Hammerklaviere mit Wiener Mechanik	Verlag Erwin Bochinsky 1999 GERMAN	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 ITALIAN & ENGLISH	-
Blom, Eric	The Romance of the Piano	Foulis London 1928	-
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
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
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
Dolge, Arthur	Pianos and their Makers — A Comprehensive History of the Development of the Piano	Dover 1972	0 486 22856 8
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
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 DUTCH & 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
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	-
Hirt, Franz Josef	Meisterwerke des Klavierbaus — Stringed Keyboard Instruments	Urs Graf Verlag 1981 GERMAN & 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 FRENCH	-
Kjeldsberg, Peter Andreas	Piano i Norge	C Huitfeldt Forlag 1985 NORWEGIAN	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
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 ITALIAN	-
Lustig, Monika [ed]	Zur Geschichte des Hammerklaviers [14.Musikinstrumentenbau-Symposium in Michaelstein]	Michaelstein 1996 GERMAN & 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 ITALIAN & 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	-
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	-
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	-
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
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 FRENCH, DUTCH & 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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