Description
The first comprehensive technical and historical study of stringed keyboard instruments from their fourteenth-century origins to modern times.
About the Author
Trained as a harpsichord, organ, and violin maker, Stewart Pollens served as the conservator of musical instruments at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1976 to 2006. He has published widely on the history of musical instruments and is the recipient of the American Musical Instrument Society's 1997 Bessaraboff Prize for The Early Pianoforte (Cambridge University Press, 1995).
Book Information
ISBN 9781108421997
Author Stewart Pollens
Format Hardback
Page Count 592
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 1400g
Dimensions(mm) 260mm * 183mm * 32mm