Hi, Paul, I'm not sure where they got their information. There are fortepianos aplenty around the country. The rare instrument at UNL is the pedal clavichord. It consists of 2 manuals (two clavichords) and a pedal board (a bass clavichord). It wasn't long ago that UNL had the only pedal clavichord in the US. I think there were only 2 or 3 world wide. The builder had to do quite a bit of research to figure out how to build a pedal clavichord. Evidently it used to be quite common as a "home" practice instrument for organists. If an organist wanted to play the organ, he had to hire someone to pump the bellows. UNL's instrument was commissioned as a research instrument. The organ faculty wanted to know how organists practiced and how it might have affected playing technique. There may be more of these instruments now. As you know pedal clavichords are a bear to tune since there are three clavichords in one instrument; all three have to tuned together. Richard West, UNL piano technician emeritus On Oct 2, 2009, at 11:43 AM, Paul T Williams wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a quick question. How many of you take care of replica > fortepianos in your colleges and universities? I think I need to > set our university paper straight. They quoted that UNL has the > only performing replica in the US. I say nay, but need the proof! > > Thanks > Paul -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20091002/0f0a958a/attachment.htm>
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