Keyboard Instruments
The Early Instrument Room [EIR] includes a number of instruments, including a German double harpsichord made by William Dowd and the historic Dolmetsch double harpsichord and clavichord. The room contains a piano built by Johann Baptist Streicher in 1869 from the private collection of Professor Robert Levin which has been made available to students and faculty of the department. The EIR also contains two pianos ordered for the department by Professor Levin since his arrival: (1) a copy by Paul McNulty, Prague, Czech Republic, after Anton Walter & Sohn, ca. 1805, 5 1/2 octaves (FF-c"") with moderator and true una corda, delivered in February 1998; (2) a copy by Rodney Regier, Freeport, ME, after Conrad Graf, ca. 1824 6 1/2 octave (CC-g""). Taking the harpsichord and three pianos as a whole, the EIR has instruments that take users straight through organologically from the high Baroque to the advent of the modern piano in the later 1880s.
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