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HEWITT Collection
ISHAM Collection
The Harvard University Collection of Musical Instruments comprises 165 objects including instruments, both Western and non-Western, the Isham and Hewitt Collections, and a small group of musical miscellany. A growing number represent the cultures and traditions of many parts of the world including Europe, North America, the British Isles, and the mid- and far-east, especially China.
Here you'll find a piano made by Streicher & Sons of Vienna in 1869; the piano Brahms would have played. The collection also features reproductions of the fortepianos of the likes of Mozart and Beethoven, a William Dowd harpsichord, and a Dolmetsch clavichord once played by virtuoso Gustav Leonhardt. Other highlights include Baroque viols, French 19th-century clarinets, a carved walnut Serpent D'Eglise, and a Pardessus de Viole created in the French city of Metz in 1730.
[photos of wind, keyboard and non-western instruments by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard University News Office.]
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