on 5/18/00 9:19 AM, Stephen Birkett at birketts@wright.aps.uoguelph.ca wrote: > There aren't any playable Cristofori original pianos around > (understandably). I have a videotape (History of the Pianoforte -- A Documentary in Sound by Eva Badura-Skoda, published by Indiana University Press, available at amazon.com) which maintains otherwise. The tape says there are 3 Cristofori pianos extant, one of which, owned by the New York Metropolitan Museum, is playable. The restorer of the instrument was named, but I don't remember it just now. The tape contains a recording of Paul Badura-Skoda playing a Domenico Scarlatti sonata on the Cristofori instrument. The instrument looked like it was about to fall over, but the sound was lovely. Highly recommended. Kent Swafford
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