[CAUT] Piano for the Bedridden

[Horace Greeley]

Hi, Laurence,

At 07:04 AM 3/14/2011, you wrote:
>Thanks for the tip, but the photo comes from the 
>national archives in the Netherlands.

OK...sorry, got confused by the titling...my bad.

>Good to know where Artur Schnabel's collection 
>went, though; my wife studied with his pupil Konrad Wolff.

Interesting.  I had several chamber music 
seminars with K.U. Schnabel in the 
60's...interesting approach, though I'm afraid he 
wasn't terribly interested in wind players at the time.

Best.

Horace


>Best,
>Laurence
>
>----- Original Message ----- From: "Horace Greeley" <hgreeley at sonic.net>
>To: <caut at ptg.org>; "caut ptg" <caut at ptg.org>; 
>"Allen Wright" <akwright at btopenworld.com>
>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