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
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