Empire Period Piano 1820
by Ira Shander
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12.000 x 10.500 inches
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Title
Empire Period Piano 1820
Artist
Ira Shander
Medium
Drawing - Pen And Ink
Description
Joseph Loud, Philadelphia piano maker built this model in 1820.
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June 20th, 2013
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Kathryn Jones
Beautiful! How I wish that I could get my hands on that keyboard!
Ira Shander replied:
Kathryn, I have heard a number of recordings made on pianos of this period. The music sounds different. Somewhat more transparent. Beethoven had and destroyed many pianos. Maybe he would have enjoyed a modern Steinway or Bosendorfer. Maybe the 32 piano sonatas would have been composed differently. We'll never now. He bought an English Broadwood which was shipped from London to Italy. Then shlepped over the Alps to Vienna. It needed some work when it arrived. Later the piano wound up in the hands of Franz Liszt. And now is in the museum in Budapest. These early pianos have to my ears an almost etherial sound to them. Or maybe I'm just romanticizing. English musician, Christopher Hogwood, who passed away in 2015 was a great proponent of using original instruments. What a difference. He understood, through great scholarship, how composers and players understood things to sound.
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