David For a "Piano Anatomy" class at Alabama, I used PIANO, A PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF THE WORLD'S MOST CELEBRATED INSTRUMENT, by David Crombie. It's rather expensive, ($35), but it has loads of information about the history of the piano, with the pictures. It also has little blurbs on which composer used what brand of piano. If this is for a class, when I taught this, as part of their grade, I had each students do a report on a composer of their choice, what instrument that composer played on, and the history of that piano company. Since most of my students were piano majors, or at least minors, they were also supposed to play a piece by that composer. Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT Piano Tuner/Technician 94-505 Kealakaa Str. Mililani, Oahu, HI 96789 808-349-2943 www.Bleespiano.com Author of: The Business of Piano Tuning available from Potter Press www.pianotuning.com -----Original Message----- From: David Weiss <davidweiss at embarqmail.com> To: pianotech at ptg.org Sent: Sat, Oct 31, 2009 3:17 pm Subject: [pianotech] piano history books List, Can someone recommend a few good books on the history and evolution of the iano. In addition to general information, I'm also interested in types of ianos played by the great composers. Thanks, David Weiss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20091101/87107184/attachment.htm>
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