[CAUT] Piano for the Bedridden

[Laurence Libin]

Thanks for the tip, but the photo comes from the national archives in the 
Netherlands.
Good to know where Artur Schnabel's collection went, though; my wife studied 
with his pupil Konrad Wolff.
Best,
Laurence

 ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Horace Greeley" <hgreeley at sonic.net>
To: <caut at ptg.org>; "caut ptg" <caut at ptg.org>; "Allen Wright" 
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Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 2:34 AM
Subject: Re: [CAUT] Piano for the Bedridden



Hi, Laurence,

Is there any chance that his photo came out of
any part of the collection (of music, books,
photographs/etc) that might have been left at
UCSB by Karl Ulrich Schnabel?  He had been the
custodian of most of his father's library, so the
combined collection of the two would have reached
back into the mid-19th Century.  The combined
collections passed to the Schnabel Music Foundation in 1997:

http://www.schnabelmusicfoundation.com/master.htm

...but, there may also still be a good deal of information in and around 
UCSB.

In any event, there was a good deal of photos of
this kind in that K.U. Schnabel's library at one
time; and I seem to remember some cataloging and
additional information was also available.

Kind regards.

Horace



At 12:26 PM 3/13/2011, Laurence Libin wrote:

>A colleague in Santa Barbara recently stumbled across this photograph of an 
>unusual piano adapted for
>use by people confined to bed. The picture is apparently from the
>Spaarnestad collection of the National Archives of the Netherlands.
>(Nationaal Archief / Spaarnestad Photo / Fotograaf onbekend, SFA008001012.)
>The archive give it the caption "Uitklapbare piano, speciaal ontworpen voor
>bedlegerige patiënten. Groot-Brittannië, 1935"--"Foldable piano, specially
>designed for bedridden patients. Great Britain, 1935."
>
>Anyone know anything about such instruments?
>
>Laurence
>