We have a Hook and Hastings single manual pipe organ from 1886. All our other historical keyboard instruments are replicas. It still works, but is only really used for history classes. We are fortunate in Lincoln to have the Bedient Pipe Organ Company based here, so all our other 5 pipe organs get great attention. Paul T. Williams RPT Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln From: Laurence Libin <lelibin at optonline.net> To: caut ptg <caut at ptg.org> Date: 01/06/2010 09:38 AM Subject: [CAUT] historical pianos A number of colleges (such as Oberlin, Moravian, and Vassar) and universities (Yale, U. Michigan) as well as conservatories have instrument collections including 19th-century and earlier keyboard instruments, most often kept for study rather than routine use. I'd be interested to know which of your schools own one or more historical instruments--not replicas--and who looks after them. The list of collections assembled by the American Musical Instrument Society might be incomplete in this regard. Thank you, Laurence -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20100106/2a9ba35b/attachment.htm>
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