Thos Jefferson piano

[Richard Moody]

	From a letter written in June of 1761 to his business agent in
London 

	"I wrote (before) for a clavichord.  I have since seen a forte-piano
and am charmed with it.  Send me this instrument then instead of the
clavichord: let the case be of fine mahogany, solid, not veneered,
the compas from double G to F in alt, a plenty of spare strings; and
the workmanship of the whole very handsome and worth the acceptance
of a lady for whom I intend it."  
	The footnote says it was written to Thomas Adams from Monticello
June 1, 1771, and can be found in the Lipscomb and Bergh
twenty-volume edition, volume 4, page 235-36. (Jefferson's writings)

Richard Moody