Old Broadwood Grand

[Clark]

Roger,

I disagree. I don't think that anyone should be attempting modern music on
this piano so I fail to see how your analogy works, and frankly, this
attitude has harmed many historic instruments and has made the task of
period performance unnecessarily speculative. You might as well suggest that
music written for consorts of viols be better performed by string quartets
with heavy vibrato.

Few builders are reproducing antique pianos that are not of the Viennese
tradition, and as mentioned, Beethoven was given an 1817 instrument of
similar design (albeit ill-favored by visiting continental pianists, and
apparently he never tuned it). So while the museum errs in their estimation
of extant examples of this 1811 instrument, its value is not simply that of
_relic_.

Respectfully,

Clark Panaccione, PRT ;)